Temperance Women

TJ-.UI'KÜANOE CHAMPION8. Chicago, Noy. 9.- The sixteenth annual convontion of the National Women's Chrlstlan Temperance Union opened yesterday morning in this city, Miss Francos E. Willard presidí ng. There were about 500 delegates present. The morning sossion was taken up in Bible-readini and prayer. At the afternoon session the officers made reporte, and the venerable Neal Dowdelivered a short address. Airs. C. B. Buell, of Connecticut, said there were now 7,405 unions in the United States and 142, 1 6-2 mcrabers. There are 8, 143 of the Loyal Legions, with 150.1-4:! members. Altogether there are about half a million persons oonneoted with the W. C. T. U. at present. The report of Miss Esther Pugh, the ti-easurer, showed the total receipts from all sources to be 938,889.97; total expenditures, $30,687.57. The duea for 1889 realized the sum of 514,380.50. The balance in Miss Pugh's hands is .tt.;2d2.40. At the evening session addresses of welcome were made by Mrs. M. 1!. Carse, Mrs. L. S. Kounds and Uev. Ilerrick Johnson, of Chicago. Mrs. Carse said Chicago had more than 4.000 saloons open .Sundays and spent $70.000,000 a year on drink. .Miss Willard in her annual address said America liad become the dumping ground of Earopean cities, and protested against the present wholesale exodus from the European slums. In referring to the Sunday-closing movement in Chicago she said the saloon-keeper and pot-house politician still held the business men and, to a great extent, the churches by the throat, while red flag riots, dynamite plots and Cronin murders were bedotten by alcoholized brains and hatched in the high-license grog-shops of Chicago. Miss YVillard said that as a method of raising revenue from vice high license ■vas a success, and it was equally so as a ife-insurance policy on the saloon. It arrayed the expert and the non-expert temperance forces against each other and made a man's own household his worst foes. It had set back the temperance cause ten years, if not a generation; it had blinded men's conscienees to moral distinctions, deadened tb churches, muzzled the clergy, chloroformed the religious editor and rejoioed the devil and his hosts. On the labot question she said it was being proved that intemperance was most prevalent where the hours of toil were long, because overwork drove men to drinking. The speaker touehed on th multipllcity of subjects in which the ÍV. C. T. U. is deeply interested, including the marriaife relation, social evil, protectlon to minors of both sexes, ospocially girls, purity in literature and art, physioal culture and dress reform. In conclusión she recommended petitions against impure literature, asïring an amendment to the Inter-State Commerce law prohibiting the bringing f liquor into Prohibition States, in farof of the Itlalr Educational bill and th Blair amendment, forbklding the manu facture oí eigarettes and prohibitlnsj smoking in a waiting-room and postoffices, and for various other purposes. CmcAOO, Nov. 11. - A breezo was started in the W. C. T. U. convention Saturday by a telegram froni H. 15. Moulton, oí Washington, saying a bar had been licensed in President Morton's hotel building in Washington. Mrs. 3. Ellen Foster, of Iowa, eipressed her re (fret at the announcement reflecting on Vice-President Morton, and protestad against its injustice. She read a telegram from A. K. Nettleton, of Washington, saying that the accusation against the Vice-President was without the shadow of foundation, and that Mr. Morton personally denounced the canard through the nowspapers last week. Reports from the National organizers were heard. A congratulatory telegram irom Wyoming stated that the proposed constitution, eontaining a woman-suf frage plank, had been ratifiod by a vote of eight to one. Rev. John Barrows, D. B., spoke on behalf of the iSociety of Christian Eadeavor, which, he said. has 500,000 members. It aims to develop the activities of young people in connortion with th different churches. At the evening session u number of delegates delivered addresses on various topics. CfeiCAGO, iov. 13. - Miss Francés B. Willard was re-elected president of the W. C. 'l'. V. at the annual session in this city yesterday, and the other officers elected were: Mrs. Caroline B. Buell, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, recordlng secretary, and Miss Esther Pugh, Treasurer. Speeches were made by Senator lilair, of New Ilampshire; ReT. Dr. Cummings, president of the Northwestern University at Evanston; Rev. Arthur Edwards, D. D., of Chicago, and Dr. W. O. Anderson, of Brooklyn. The question as to whether VicePresident Morton had or had not seoured a saloon license for his hotel in Washington was dismissed f rora the consideration of the convention. At the evening session as oratorical contest, took plai-e between seven childrcn and misses for a handsome diamond badge. Thoirnames were: Daisy ütoddard, Nebraska; Eunice Melviile, Minnesota; Ollio Hiatt, Kansas; Minnie Ethington. Illinois; Alice Hecklingor, New York; Mabel Underhill, Michigan, and Master Ray Ludwick, Michigan. Miss Sloddard was awarded the badge.