The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-28
Presidents Address Closing
Feature Of the w. T.U.
State Meeting
MEDAL CONTEST
BY SIX GIRLS
Former Board OF Officers Elected This
Forenoon-stirring Address by Mrs.
D. Z. Livingston on Equal Suffrage
and National Prohibition.

The last day Of the 10th annual con
VentIon Of the Nermont Woman's Chris.
tan Temperance Cnion was marked IL
the reelection OF the entire old board Of
officers at the morning session They are:
President, Mrs Minnie L. Pearson of
Orleans: vice president-at-laree. Mrs q
i. Davidson OF New fame: corresponding
secretary, Miss Elsie l.. Pease. Swanton.
recording secretary. Mrs Ellen b Turner
II JomSbnIy; treasurer Mrs. f. Mead
Denny, Montpelier auditor, Mrs. Alice
u. Richardson. Montpelier.
No invitation was received from anv
delegation to hold the next state conven
thon. and the matter was left To be dacid
ed upon by the officers
Prior to the election Of officers which
was the concluding business Of the morn
ing session We're reports OF snperintend-
ents OF departments and Jubilee hour i'll
winch the county presidents reported the
net gains IN membership in their respec-
| tive territories
! The afternoon session was marked pfin-
cipalk by the election of delegates to the
national convention This evening there
1 will he a medal contest III which the con
testants viii be Edith Adams. Dorothy
i Hubbard. Marion Parl1hurst Pearl
/ Wright. Beatrice Scovell and Margaret
Neiman. Mrs. Mary b. Wilson Of Phila
deiphia, who was to give an address. Is
unable to be present and instead the
president address, which was mt over
because OF lack OF time from Tuesday
4mnrIing-- viii he gwen
In the afternoon session yesterday re-
ports from superintendents of drpaff
lnents occupied much Of the time Mrs.
-. r. Davidson OF Newfane conducted a
memorial hour in which tributes were
paid To those who were members 81 the
boy or closely identified with the cause
Who had died IN the state during the past
year
Mrs. Deborah Knoy Livingston of Ban
gor, Me. who addressed the convention
m the evening was introduced during the
afternoon and gave reports of the state
" {. T. L. conventions in various states
IN the Middle West and others nearer
ermont which she had recently attended
Mrs F. Fl. Rastall gave an interesting
address on Moral Education in which
she said that immortality is that wrong
Tor which no punishment is provided and
rapidly grows into the morasS of immoral
ity. The training OF ourselves and of our
children IN obedience Is the foundation
stone of moral uplifr If there was no
: dlsobedience there would be no sin in
: this world
: Mrs. Frances r. Wyman Of Manchester
! Center, eNpounder Of the cause Of equal
suffrage, IN her address at the close of the
afternoon session took occasion to point
out that Senator Dillingham; was opposed
to the proposition to change the constitu-
tion to give women an equal right TO the
ballot with men. the senator having re-
piled to the letter Of inquiry that he was
'unalterably opposed because he consd-
cred it an evasion of states rights
She expressed the hope that Edward G.
} Crosby Of Brattleboro would he returned
to the Legislature this fall. because he
; was in charge of their bill before that
body during the last legislature and a
kinder. more patient aud earnest helper
e in the cause could not be found
She declared that there was no ques-
! tion exciting such general interest a. the
cause Of woman suffrage While there
are no women who are 20 free and un-
I trammeed as the American women they
/ want stii more freedom They desire t.
, be socially free 50 that the men they
{ marry MAY go To the altar as clean ply
sically and morally as are the women
I whom they lead to the altar. that in the
future their children may be untainted.
i They wish to be economically free She
. cited instances Of women who, many
times. have everything they can desire
+ except money Women do not wish to
a ask their husbands for every cent they
q may desire to snend This will never
5 come to pass until they have freedom in
k other ways
n They want TO be politically free A
n vote is only an expression Of opinion
5 where it may he counted. The men are
better than the laws they make for in
q Vermont il is still greater crime tc
: steal horse than 10 ruin woman. and