St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-30
A Long Address Issued by the National
Women's Christian Temperance
Union,
Asking Aid and Cooperation From tn,
Leading Body of Organized
Labor.
The Objects Being the Advance.
ment Of Temperance and
Industry,
And the Protection Of the Home
and the Purity of
Woman.

dress was issued by the National WOman's
Christian Temperance union to-day, in &C.
cordance with resolution adopted at re.
cent Minneapolis convention. 1t is adj
dressed to all Knight of Labor. Trades
Unions and other labor organizations:
Headquarters of the National W. c. 7. o.,
161 LaSalle street, Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. IL, 1885.
All Workngmen and Women, Brothers and
Sisters of a Common Hope: We come to you
. naturally as our friends and allies. With
! such of your methods as involve co-opera.
ton, arbitration and the ballot box, we are
in hearty sympathy. Measures which involve
tie compulsion of labor, destruction of prop
erty, or harm to life or limb, we profoundly
deplore, and we believe the thoughtful and
responsible among your ranks must equally
deplore them as not only base in themselves,
but great hindrance TO your own welfare
and success. We rejoice in your broad plat
form OF mutual help, which recognizes
NEITHER SEX, RACE NOR CREED.
Especially do we appreciate the tendency
| of your great movement to elevate women
| iudustrialiy to their right place, by claiming
| that they have equal pay for equal work, rec
| ognizing them as officers and members Of
| your societies, and advocating the ballot in
! their hands as their rightfu weapon of self
helf i'll our representative government. AS
| temperance women, we have been especially
| glad to note your hostile attitude toward the
| saloon, the worst foe of woman, and of work.
| ingmeu, and of the home We read VITA Joy
| OF the vow made by the newlr elected officers
| of the Knights OF Labor in Richmond. Va.
| when with hands raised to heaven they
/ pledged themselves to be total abStainers
! throughout their term of Office. In address,
| ing you at this time we want to offer you
| our sincere congratulations upon your
achievements as practical workers in that
| great temperance reform which engages our
steadfaSt work and PRAYERS, and whicn, as we
! believe, involves, beyond all other movements,
! your happiness and elevation. Permit
US to ask your careful consideration of this
| STATEMENT OF OUR BELIZE.
| The central question of labor reform is not
so much how to ct higher wages, as to how
| to turn present wages TO better account, for
waste harms most those who can least afford
! it. 1t is not over-production so much as
under consumption, that grinds the faces of
! workingmen. Fourteen hundred millions an
| nuallt drawn, chiefly from the pockets of
| workingmen. by the saloonAeepers and cigar
! dealers, means less flour in the barrel, less
coal in the cellar and less clothing for the
| aborers family. We grieve to see them
! give their money for that which is not bread,
! and their labor for that which satisfieth not.
| Life insurance statistics prove that while the
average life of the moderate drinker is but
| 35% years, that of the total abstainer
| is 81 years. Successful explorers and
! soldiers, famous athletes, pedestrians,
rowers and shots are men who do not cobweb
! their brains or palsy tneir nerves with alco-
! hoic drink We believe that the work OF our
! societies. resulting in laws by which nearly
one-half the children of the United States
! are being taught in the public schools the
/ evil effects of intoxicating liquors upon the
! tissues of the body and the temper of the
mind. merits your earnest cooperation and
will prove one of your strongest re-enforce-
! ments in the effort to
ELEVATE YOUR FAMILIES
to nobler levels of opportunity. We believe
that the study OF hygiene including the
| knowledge OF the most healthful food and the
discovery that these are of the cheaper and
non-stimulGting class, with careful consider
alton OF the scientific methods by which in
the preparation Of food little can be made
to go long way in the home economies,
are well worthy of your attention. We ask
you to aid us in our eudeavors to have taught
in all departments of our public schools
these beneficent laws of health which relate
to wholesome living in respect TO diet, dress,
sleep exercise and ventii&tion, so that this
! teaching saail be given TO every child us one
OF the surest means to its highest happiness.
We ask your attention to our White Cross
| pledge of equal chastity for man and woman,
| Of pure language and pure life. We ask your
| help in our efforts TO secure adequate protec-
| tion by law for the daughters OF the poor and
| rich alike, from the cruelty of base and
brutal men. We ask your help in our en-
deavors to preserve the American Sabbath
| with its rest and quiet, redeeming it from
| being, as now, the harvest time OF the saloon
keeper, wien he gathers in the earnings Of
the working man, and we promise you ouJ
| cooperation in your efforts to secure
SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY
which, we believe, will GO so much To change
the Sabbath from day OF recreation to one OF
rest at houle aud for the worship OF God.
We call our attention to our departments of
evangeliStic temperance work; work for rail-
road employees, lumbermeu herdsmen. min
erS, soldiers and sailors; also to our efforts to
Kitchens klnQ6rgarteDS.
and bands OF hope; to supply free libraries
and reauing rooms, temperance lodging
houses and restaurants, and TO reach out
helping hand 20 fallen women as we'll as
fallen men. We have publishing house at
16I La Sale street, Chicago, which sent out
80, ,G00,000 pages of temperance literature
in the last year, which is conducted
by women Its types are set by
women compositors. Our national organ, tho
u on S...Dai mas good words for all lawful
efforts made by workingmen and women for
their own best good. We ask you TO do all in
your power for the cause of prohibition,
which is pre-emnently your cause. With the
dram shop and it's fendsh temptations over
thrown, what might you not attain of that
seIf-mastery which is the first condition CT
success: and what micht you lot achieve of
protection and happiness in those homes
which are the hearts true resting places.
Your ballots hold the balance of power in this
land of
THE WORLDS HOPE.
We ask those of you who are voters to cast
them only for such measures and such men
as are solemnly committed to the prohibition
OF every brewery, dIStillery and dram shop in
the ION, and that women may come to the
rescue in this great emergency as an act Of
Justice toward those who have the most sacred
claim on your protection, We hope that you
may see your way clear to cast your ballots
only for such measures and such men as are
pledged to the enfranchisement of women.
In all this, we speak to you as those who fer
veBtly believe that the coming of ChrstS
kingdom on earth means brotherhood. We
urge you with sisterly earnestness and affec-
ton TO make the New Testament your text
book of political economy and to join US in
da Is study of His blessed words. ''WhO spake
as never man spake." His pierced hand is
lifting up this sorrowfui. benighted world into
the light of God. In earnest sympathy let us
go forward to work out His golden precepts
into the worlds lie and law by making FIRST
of all His law and life our own. Yours, for
God and home and native land.
FRANCES WILLARD, President.
CAROLINE b. BUELL., Corresponding Sec
retary.