The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-11-04

! ident and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, the
reading Of which brought forth tre-
mendous cheering
Among those extending welcome
was Mayor Kline in behalf of the
City OF New York, who, in present
ing the ladies the keys of the city,
said many kind and complimentary
things, but he made bad break
when he told the delegates that he
admired the name Of the institution
they represented: The Woman's
Christian ,Temeprance Union, be-
cause temperance stood for modera-
ton in all thing in
eating and moderation in drinking.
1t took the delegates but a very
short time to tell him that he was
on the wrong track and that their
kind of temperance didn't stand for
moderate drinking.
senting the Brooklyn League, well
General Horatio c. King, repre-
coined and congratulated the con-
vention on the wonderful growth of
the organization. saying, among
other things that only two genera
tions ago it was a difficult matter to
get out more than a cOrporals guard
to attend temperance meeting,
while today no building can be found
large enough to hold the crowds
that are interested. and that their
arguments for the cause were now
being pleaded in more than fifty lam
guages and had won a billion people
of many lands.
One of the rel letter days was
Sunday. More than half of the
churches in New York and Brooklyn
had sent in requests for some of the
delegates to speak from their pull
pits. and these scores Of churches
were filled to the limit to listen to
ers. Among those who filled some of
the principal pulpits of the city was
to be found every delegate from the
Southern states, which reminds us
that when President Wilson spoke at
Mobile recently he said ''he didn't
come to speak for the men Of the
South, as they were abundantly able
to speak for themselves" Now,
if he had attended the exercises of
of this worlds w. c. T. L. he would
have found that Southern women al
so are able to speak for them
selves" the Brooklyn Citizen going
so far as to say that Mrs. Mary Ar
mour, of Georgia. held her audience
spellbound, listening to the wonder
full oratory, as no speaker had ever
done before" This lady after speak
ing at the Washington Baptist
church in the morning was pressed
into service in the afternoon to take
the place of Richard Pearson Hobson
of Alabama, who was scheduled to-
speak in the afternoon at the Acade-
my of Music, but who wired that it
was impossible for him to leave just
then as he was having a strenuous
time in his own state. so Mrs. Ar
NOR filled this appointment. She
thanked God that Georgia was the
first Of the Southern states to go dry,
and that while the drink traffic fears
neither God, man, law or the gos-,
pei, neither does the w. c. T. [. fear
the leaders of the drink traffic, and
that their slogan now is "a saloon
less nation in 1920 She told Of a
recent meeting Of brewers in st.
Louis where s50.O00.O0O was pledg-
ed to Offset the work of the w. {. L.
T.. and that the brewers were more
afraid of those women than all the
political parties in the United States.
4 never slander the liquor inter-
ests,' said Mrs. Armor, 4 can best
accomplish my work by telling the
truth about the them. The W. c.
T. L. did not go around smashing
saloons. but accomplished its work
just the same. She spoke OF the Won
derful work done n West Virginia,
where the whole campaign was in
charge of a Mrs. Yost, "a little wo-
man not bigger than cake Of soap
after a hard days Washing" and sol
we'll did the little woman do her
work that she CIrs. Armor) was
nearly killed trying 20 get thru the
crowds into the building where she
herself was 20 speak. And when the
votes were counted the drys had car