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room, urging principals and teachers to their 

 duty and helping them in their preparations to 

 meet it. Teachers' institutes have been visited 

 in this interest, and normal classes formed for 

 the benefit of those obliged by law to teach this 

 study. To a certain extent, co-operating with 

 these laws requiring the teaching of the nature 

 and effect of alcohol, in many States legislation 

 has been secured making it unlawful to give or 

 sell to minors, cigars, cigarettes, or tobacco in 

 any form, and to some of these laws heavy pen- 

 alties are attached. The Union has taken' active 

 part in seventeen campaigns for constitutional 

 prohibition, four of which were carried, one of 

 the four (Iowa) declared unconstitutional by the 

 State courts because of a slight technicality in 

 the submission legislation, and another (Rhode 

 Island) afterward resubmitted and lost, Maine 

 and Kansas still standing. In most of these 

 campaigns the Union not only took an active 

 part, but was foremost as the promoters. 



Ten years ago temperance was almost an un- 

 heard-of theme for a Sunday-school lesson, but 

 now, after years of patient labor in this depart- 

 ment, the International Sunday-School Conven- 

 tion has made arrangements for the review to be 

 put upon the twelfth Sunday of the quarter, 

 thus avoiding complication with the temperance 

 lesson, and, beginning with 1892, two specific 

 temperance lessons, and two on the thirteenth 

 Sunday, optional with the missionary lesson, 

 will also be arranged for. 



The Department of Soldiers and Sailors has 

 been most active in efforts to influence Congress 

 not to adopt the recommendation of the House 

 Committee on Military Affairs, appropriating 

 $100,000 for the establishment of the " canteen 

 system " at military posts. The effort put forth 

 was successful in that it called the people's at- 

 tention to what had been little known or thought 

 of before, and in arousing their sympathy and in 

 the making of sentiment at the nation's Capitol, 

 in Grand Army posts, and the Woman's Relief 

 Corps, and in laying a good foundation for fu- 

 ture work in Congress. 



The Department of Social Purity has made a 

 decided advance in that it has brought to the at- 

 tention of the people facts concerning the age of 

 protection for young girls, in some States it 

 being as low as seven years. In several States, 

 in response to the appeals of the Union, the age 

 of consent has been raised in some to eighteen, 

 in others to sixteen, and in others to fourteen 

 years. Bills have been introduced into Congress 

 asking that body to take action. 



No more beneficent work has been done by 

 the Union than that which has placed police 

 matrons in so many of the police stations of our 

 larger cities, notably Portland, Me., where the 

 work had its inception, Boston, Providence, 

 Philadelphia, and Chicago. For years women 

 arrested on the streets and brought to the stations 

 have had none but men to attend them, and 

 when we reflect that they are often in a condi- 

 tion where they are not able to care for themselves, 

 the wonder is that this much needed reform has 

 been so long delayed. 



All the work of these departments, as well as 

 the work at headquarters, has been carried on 

 with a comparatively small outlay of money, for 

 the only assured funds flowing into the national 



treasury come from the State unions, which out 

 of the dues received from the local unions, pay 

 the small sums of 10 cents per member of local 

 unions to the national society. In most instances 

 the annual membership fee in the local union 

 does not exceed a cent a week, or 50 cents a year, 

 about one half of this going to the State union. 

 Added to this aggregate of dimes going to the 

 national treasury, friends of the cause and of the 

 Union have made small gifts, but not usually to 

 exceed a few hundred dollars a year. 



WYOMING, a Northwestern State, admitted 

 to the Union as a State by act of Congress ap- 

 proved July 10, 1890; area, 97.890 square miles; 

 population, according to the Federal census of 

 1890, 60,705. Capital, Cheyenne. 



Government. The following were the Ter- 

 ritorial officers at the beginning of the year: 

 Governor, Francis E. Warren, Republican ; Sec- 

 retary, John W. Meldrum ; Treasurer, Luke 

 Voorhees; Auditor, Mortimer N. Grant; Attor- 

 ney-General, Hugo Donzelman ; Superintendent 

 of Education, John Slaughter ; Chief Justice of 

 the Supreme Court, Willis Van Devanter : As- 

 sociate Justices, Samuel T. Corn and M. C. Sauf- 

 ley. Under the provisions of the admission act, 

 these Territorial officials held over after the ad- 

 mission of the Territory to the Union, until Oct. 

 14, when the following State officers, elected by 

 the people, assumed control : Governor, Francis 

 E. Warren, Republican, who resigned on Nov. 

 18 to accept an election to the United States 

 Senate, and was succeeded by Amos W. Barber 

 as acting Governor; Secretary of State, Amos 

 W. Barber, acting as Governor after Nov. 18 ; 

 Treasurer, Otto Gramm ; Auditor, Charles W. 

 Burdick; Superintendent of Public I nstruction, 

 Stephen T. Farwell ; Judges of the Supreme 

 Court, Willis Van Devanter, Herman V. S. Groes- 

 beck, and Asbury B. Conaway. 



Population. The following table shows the 

 population of the State by counties, as deter- 

 mined by the national census of 1890, compared 

 with the population in 1880 : 



Finances. On Sept. 1, 1890, there was a cash 

 balance of $94,914.02 in the Territorial treasury. 

 The bonded debt of the Territory, which the 

 State will be compelled to assume, is $320,000, 

 bearing interest at 6 per cent., and payable in 

 from twelve to forty years. This entire debt 

 was incurred in the construction of public build- 

 ings and other public works. The assessed valua- 

 tion of Wyoming property in 1890 was $30,(>f>r>.- 

 499.11, as* against $11,857,344 in 1880 and $6.- 

 924,357 in 1870. It is believed that the assessed 

 valuation for taxing purposes does not exceed 



