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

ried the state by $4,000 majority,
but it took determination, legisla-
ton and cooperation to do it.
! Among the many interesting fea-
lures of the convention was the re-
ports from the foreign delegates. All
were optomistic, tho some were
somewhat sad. The delegate from
Belgium. a quaint little Baroness,
spoke most pathetically of the con-
is one saloon for each thirty-five in
habitants. The delegate from Aus
tralia said she had come $4,000
miles to attend the conventions; that
her country. Some one asked her
what language was spoken there.
She said that Australia was the size
of the United States, but they had
only 100000 people instead of co.
100000. She could not understand
what people meant when they said
| law could not be enforced, because
| IN her country if the officers would
not enforce the law they put them
out and put in some one who would.
| The New Zealand delegate said, I'VE
all vote and the only people who op-
posed suffrage were the liquor men,
| for they knew that if the women get
| the vote, it would mean ultimate
| prohibition The representative
| from Japan was dressed in her native
costume-her little lavender robe
and tiny slippers were in strong con-
trast to some worn by other women
on the stage Her delivery
was somewhat halting though
n perfect English. Her name is
| Miss Iwasawa. She said, Our
young folks are waking up. The
Young girls of the w. c. T. Z. in
Japan refuse to marry non-Christ-
ian men. Do you smoke? Do you
drink? If so, l will not marry you.
But if not, l will marry you and we
will have one happy little home"
They have many happy little homes.
From Burmah came a delegate and
her husband. The latter had to read
the report, as his wife was too i'll to
speak. Burmah, it said, was where
Adinoram Judson, the missionary,
worked for seven years before he
had a single convert, but today there
are 800 temperance societies there;
they print one temeprance newspa-
per, besides great numbers of tenn
perance pamphlets and other litera-
ture, besides which, compulsory tenn
perance education in the public
schools is ordered by the govern
ment An English delegate said that
in one prison in England there were
three and a half miles of cells and
with the exception of one mile the
whole was occupied by prisoners
brought there thru the agency of
liquor.
From Moscow delegate told of a
vast amount of drunkenness in Rus
sia, and attributed it to the fact that
the priests of the Greek church gave
the communion to young children by
means of bread soaked in fermented
wine, thus intoxicating a taste for
liquor.
There were reports from scores of
other places all of which were very
interesting.
On Thursday petition was ad-
dressed to the Convention Of Ameri-
can Bishops. then in session in New
York, asking them to use their in
huence with the churches to the end
that only unfermented wine be used
in administering the Holy Commun-
ion
An election of officers was held, at
which all the former officers were re-
elected. as follows:
President. Rosalind Countess of
Carlisle, England: vice-president,
Mrs. L. NJ. y. Stevens, Portland,
Ne; honorary secretaries, Miss Ag-
mes E. Slack, Derbyshire, Eng, and
Miss Anna A Gordon. Evanston,
H.; honorary treasurer, Mrs. Mary
Z. Sanders. Quebeck, Canada.
The closing exercises were inter-
esting One hundred women were
detailed to make one hundred
speeches in one, hundred minutes
and tho it was quite time enough for
some of them, others only got fairly
into running when time was called.