| Show THE CRUSADERS The Xerr ladies Temperance Organization Or-ganization Decides to Chanjo Us Xante GENERAL GOFPS CALL FOR JUSTICE Six Deaths Itesnlt From a Natural GAS Explosion at Co loinbm 0 THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS AT WASHINGTON The Central Pjclflcj Difflenlllcs i Incrro Iap Through The I Saorr Blockade j Dj Telegraph to the Xiwst TKnmnANcn 3iomniiNT 1 > ame Found at Lout by tilt XonriirllMiM CLEVELAND Jan 21 Once more the new ladles temperance organization has changed llA name The first agrvctl u1oo was American Amer-ican Woman Temperance League This was changed yesterday yes-terday afternoon to National Crusaders After C7gltalng tho matter over night tome of the ladles la-dles decided they didnt like this either go tills morning the action was reconsidered antI nftcr tome discussion tho name ot XonPar Usan Womans Christian Temperance Temper-ance Union woe decided uau despite tho objection of tile minority minor-ity who thought the name too long and besides wanted something entirely en-tirely distinctive from the old or zanlration > The election of officers then proceeded pro-ceeded with tho followIng result Miss F Jennie Doty Cleveland general secretary Mrs Florence I Miller Des Moimis Iowa recording secretary t1re K J Slioltledgc Piniulvaula financial secretary Mrs C Cornelia AllorJ Brooklyn I N Y treasurer heads of the fivu departments work were selected as fallows Evangelistic Evan-gelistic secretary Sirs Mary J Aldrich Iowa educational secretary secre-tary Mrs Mary Joseph D Weeks Tcnnsylvanla leslslativctecrttary Mrs Lydia II Tilton District of Columbia literary oocrk Mrs Florence Flor-ence Porter Oldtown Maine young womens work Mrs J It Wetattr Illinois At the request of Mrs Aldrich of Town and Mrs Co re of Pennsylvania circulars will be issued showing the difference between the old and THE > UW OimASI < ATtO > SAt S-At the afternoon session Jlrs J Ellen Foster made nn appeal for fundr and in less than half an hour p2500 was pledged by the lad it present This Is onefourth of the estimated amount required for the ensuing year The report of tho committee on rcoIuUon3 vhu read The JCptJtt s No movement of the century promised more for Chrltin chill znlioii than the Woman Chrl tnii Temperance Uuloh for several years following IU Inaugumtiou For ten years It justified tim hopes and fulfilled iU promises giucc that time dazzling politico thcorlt mistaken Ideas of Individual and or ganisation right nisgutded zealand zeal-and consciousness of power have brought the confusion of a partisan alliance and disastrous party limitations limita-tions Defects In orgaulfatlon work a result of the santo conJitlons which produced the party alliance have brought other complications Coming together at this time and 8rJ atb rl under conditions that have made I tills meeting and a new organization UKCcssary w o deeply feU the responsibility I re-sponsibility I and duty laid upon us and we deotre I u1uU tmuR pcnd ence IIU the God of our iaith to record re-cord that only the love of Christ coastrainetli us to this action that we may continue our tcmjx ranee work for the promotion of total abstinence ab-stinence and prohibition principle In 1 such manner and by well methods meth-ods ait seem to Us fcurcst and best We thaukfullj recosnize the wondrcus work that our Heavenly Father has enabled the Christian women of the country to accomplish accom-plish We fully and freely recog nlzo the right pf every member of this organization to individual religious and political opinion nnd preferences and to their exercise according to the dictates of their individual in-dividual ronsclcncc and declare that no majority In such orgaulza tion should sever In any manner interfere with these individual rights We gladly recognize the fact tint the nonpartisan principles of Christian temperance sok are rapidly I gaining adherence throughout through-out tho nation We ttnot all the strength of the united avhrUtlan women of the Union to l brought against the combined power of the liquor traffic We cordially invito auxiliary and local organizations under our broad banner of political freedom where every woman whatever her party preferences or Individual party wrk may unite with us in our efforts against the common enemy of the home slate and nation We recognize believe in and are individually related to any moralnnd political reforms of thuD thu-D whIch a the outgrowth ofllfu gospel of Christ These reforms are ll JI directly Indirectly or remoUly related re-lated to temperance reform and their success wilt hasten the triumph of the principles to which we are tlevoted Xcvertlieles we believe our work In the national organisa thou will be more eOective if wholly free from any alllanro with tho < u manment upon which our mem upn berWIDFY WIDELY DIFTKIt IX OIRf Ve note with gratitude the wli gltude growth temperance conviction as shown in this number of States In which the liquor IciCle Is under the ban constitutional and statutory prohibition and the increand area from which the saloon b been banished by local statutes The resolutions approve the ef for lo i nil a re Congress to amend tim IntcrStato commerce law to prohibit the importation of liquor into prohibition States to submit the sale of revenue stamp in such States to State Jaw and tho proposed pro-posed appnlntmentof congressional congression-al commission to Investigate thp liquor trafilc We declare the fundamental need of temperance reform to b a tempranco broader education of the educational mind and conscience In religious scientific and economic truths relating toting to the effects of alcohol The resolutions pledge the best efforts of the association to secure a thorough enforcement both in the letter and in tie spirit of tbe laws requiring a scenUA temperance Instruction in puVb schools nr Btates where such laws have been enacted and to work to make such Instruction compulsory in all other States where no such l legal proposition propo-sition exists A careful r and prompt distribution of thEn partisan literature Is urged The resolutions discussion weio adopted without flu location of the next convention conven-tion sits referred to thou executive cmmie and the meeting adjourned ad-journed line die |
