Show W C T A rational nation all enli ill sept 3 special the official call for the twenty third annual convention of the national christian temperance tenton ion was issued today from the riat national ional headquarters in the temperance temple P e over the signature ol 01 miss frances E willard lard the convention opens in st luls ii aia on november 13 and will last for one ona week in part the call says the very air is electric with the fact that an election is before us the papers contain little else each side is sure that upon the adoption of its principles depends the safety of the nation and that their rejection can mean nothing alaa it overthrow and annihilation lation into the midst of this universal unrest into this epoch of campaign buttons button and campaign yells into this confusion of discordant sounds we are sending forth our national call not heartened disheartened dis because of the clamor nor downcast because so many other issues ae engrossing public thought thourl t but sure sore since god is god and right is that the principles we represent will in time come coma to bs ba recognized as the principles of eternal the issues we stand for will be seen to be the only issues worthy to be called dominant it is 13 a significant fact that our annual convent conventi Oon venti n is th a year to meet in hi the same city where three great conventions have already been held the street h re sounded to the tread of republican populist and free silver feet will know now the tread of the r white bite rib boners bonera as from east aud and west north and south chev the keep stop step in their grand march toward the future the jofs which echoed to chies of I 1 sound money are to echo back our voices as aa we affirm that neither the money nor the nation standing anding Bt back of the money can be bound if unrighteousness is placed before greed of gain before the welfare of citizens we shall meet not as aa a political party yet 4 as those to whom polities seems duty not as financiers and yet as thosa profoundly interested in finance not as as states women romentha the women of a great nation baptized with a mighty earnestness endued ensued with the clear vision which enables us to ees eee that that whatever else the nation and individuals cons cans that nation kiy may need the primal need is applied righteous righteousness nese truth not cot alone in the inner parts of individual conscience awl life but truth in its outward empress ev expression press ion as seen through righteous laws righteously ex eluted social customs dpn which has been set the seal sea of the christ spirit the establishment ot of a nation whose recognized province shall ba to seek not alone the greata greatest st rood good to the greatest number but the greatest erea area test goo good a of all these are our i issues sues 11 |