People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — THE CLOSING SESSION. [ARTICLE]

THE CLOSING SESSION.

Resolutions Passed by the'W. C. T. U. in Annual Convention. Cleveland, 0., Nov. 28. —The W. C. T. U. convention adjourned Wednesday night. It is considered to have been the most successful meeting in the history of the union and the delegates are loud in their praises of the hospitality of. Cleveland temperance women. Resolutions, of which the following is a brief summary, were adopted: Allegiance to the principles of total abstinence and prohibition are reaffirmed: they call upon all executives of the law, as well as upon all moral and religious people, to unite in the enforcement of existing laws for the prevention of Sabbath desecration; favor combined and persistent effort toward securing the enfranchisement of women; Indorse the heroic action of Kentucky women in aiding In the overthrow of impurity in high places and demanding the annihilation of sex in moral standards; deprecate the social amusements el card-playing, theatergoing and promiscuous dancing as having an Immoral tendency: while appreciating the value of athletic and outdoor sports as having a tendency to aid physical development, the resolutions disapprove of football or other games as require the presence of a physician as being Injurious to physical well-being and brutalizing In their mora itendency; they protest against tho custom of inter-collegiate athletics as demoralizing to the legitimate work of college life and calculated to encourage the spirit of gambling; rofuse to recognize institutions for the restoration of the drunkard as a cure for the saloon evil; urge the use of personal influence with the editors and publishers of our daily press to suppress the details of murders, suicides and the dreadful personals and pretended medical advertisements; urge conciliation to prevent strikes, and arbitation to put an end to them: pledge support of the ballot, when obtained by women, to the "home protection party,” by whatever name, called. Resolutions were also adopted deploring the Armenian massacre and advocating international protection; thanking the populists for the suffrage plank in tho platform in Kansas; thanking the republicans for the same thing In Colorado, and thanking the democrats of the south for bringing a large area under local option laws. A report presented by the board of managers of the Woman’s temple in Chicago shows the financial condition to be flourishing - , and the probability of the reduction of its floating 1 debt to $25,000 by January I, 1895. The rent roll now amounts to $156,000 per annum.