The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-05-06
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In 1851 state organization was con-
summated in Dublin which was the
firt state organization OF the kind In
the United States. Thirty years later,
In 1881 an anniversary OF the event
was held here consisting OF a three
days meeting. Mrs. Louisa V. Boyd
was chairman of the executive COM
mittee. Mrs. Amanda Way. prolni-
nent lecturer of Winchester, Ind, pre-
sided over the meeting. The day
meetings We're held in the Christian
church. The evening meeting in the
Universalist church and Odd Fellows
hall
The most prominent visitors here
were Lucy Stone Blackwell and her
husband, Henry B. Blackwell. The
main plea of Mrs. Blackwell's lecture
was woman's rights in the ballot. She
was bitter in her denunciation of New
England laws upon womans right to
hold property. BY way OF Illustration
she added, AN opponent OF womans
rights has said that woman should
cling to her husband like vine. In
New England the statistics show that
there are seven women to one man
which means that each man must have
seven vines clinging to him.
| I Prominent people from indianapolis
and other parts of the state were
! present.
Mott Delivers Lecture.
In behalf of womans rights as well
as temperance Lucretia Mott lectured
in Dublin in 1857. She was attending
the yearly meeting of the Hicksite
Friends at Richmond and on Thurs
day Of the Yearly Meeting week came
to Dublin to attend the usual week
day meeting of Friends. At night she
lectured in the United Brethren
church. (the new brick that had just
been built In 1873 and 1874 the
womans crusades did effective tenn
perance work in many places. In fifty
days they swept the liquor traffic out
of two hundred and fifty towns and
villages, but there was no work fol
them to do in Dublin.
Many women workers belonged to
the Cambridge City society and they
were one time complimented with all
the offices Of the organization there
F., The ladies refused the offices but did
all they could for the work. In the
words of Frances Willard The cru
saders determined the utmost zeal OF
its teachable child-The Womans
Christian Temperance Union
| Yet the w. c. T.. U. developed into
a much broader organization and in
its breadth of interest the Dublin
ladies found work. A meeting was
F., held in the Methodist church June 20
| 1873, to consider the organization of
society here. An organization was
effected but as has been already seen
there was no place here for such an
organization. 1t held but few meet
ings and then ceased to be.
| Keep Saloons Out.
| A number of attempts to open
saloons in Dublin have been soon
foiled by the vigilant oversight and
firm activity of temperance, men and
women the would be violators Of the
moral standard set up by the people
has quickly vanquished the offenders
AS early as 1910 it was discovered that
liquor was being sold near where the
butcher shop now stands.
To Eli Huddleston belongs the
honor of putting an end to the evil
here threatened. During the day Eli
took mental measurement of the
location of the whiskey barrel and in
the night time he borrowed a Ions
shanked auger and bored through the
wall and into the barrel close to its