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The W. C. T. U. Addresses

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
September
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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THE W.C.T.U. ADRESSES

The W. C. T. U. women were very fortunate in their selection of speakers for their services Sunday at the Baptist church. Miss Rebecca Krikonimi, a native Armenian woman, gave a very interesting account of her work in her native land, she being the first woman to undertake to do temperance work among the men, it being quite an unheard of thing for a woman to even speak in public. She now works under the auspices of the foreign missionary society of the women of Cleveland, O., her special object being to raise funds for the widows and orphans who were made such by the Turks in their massacre of a few years ago.

   Rev. C. E. Maxfield, of Detroit, gave a very strong temperance address, not one of the common sort, filled with blood-curdling stories, but a logical and convincing one. He said that the women of Ann Arbor, in trying, not to do away with the saloon, but to make it obey the law, had one of the biggest jobs possible on their hands. He said he was there to say the things the mininsters did not dare to say. He showed that a license was not a penalty, but a permit and that the man who sells the liquor, the man who drinks it, and the government are all to blame for the saloon.