The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-27
The National Convention.


ANcE UNION
Headquarters 161 La Sale ST., Chicago.
EVANSTON, ILL.,, Aug. 90, 1899.
To tie Editor Of tile Monitor:
KIND FRIEND:-The sixteenth conven-
ton of the National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union meets in Battery d,
Chicago, Nov. 8, and continues through the
18th, with meetings OF special interest on
the Sabbath day. The society represents
over two hundred thousand earnest-heart-
ed women who are devoted to works of
philanthropy along lines that build up the
temperance reform. That their view of
this reform is very broad is proved from
the fact that they have forty distinct de-
partmcnts of work, under the general heads
of Preventive, Educational, Evangelistic,
Social, Legal, and the Department of Or
ganization. Through their influence, sci
entific temperance instruction has been Sc
cured by law in all the territories in all
schools supported in whole or in part from
the United State Treasury (namely: West
Point, Annapolis, the Indian schools,
army post schools, ete.), and in twenty
seven states the same laws are now in op-
erat ion. They have special lines Of work
for soldiers, sailors, miners, and all classes
who are in circumstances of especial temp
tstion SO far as pure and wholesome habits
of life are concerned. They have net
work of Juvenile societies extending from
Tampa Bay to Puget Sound. They have
systematic course of reading for mothers
and mothers meetings are a feature Of the
local auxiliaries. In these heredity and
hygiene are subjects especially considered.
They have publishing house in Chicago
which sends out about sixty millions of
pages annually, and prints Tile Union Sig
nal, which has sixty thousand subscribers,
and is the chief paper ever edited and pub
lished by women. Their gospel work has
permeated the nation, and was never more
earnestly pursued than now. In the
social realm they seek especially to enlist
the influence of young women, and to hold
up the standard of total abstinence fol
others sake. The Department of the
White Cross and the White Shield, which
is one of the largest, has called especial
attention to the securing of laws for the
protection of women, and to the equalizing
of the standard of an upright life, making
it the same for men that it has always been
for women. This society has about ter
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tives from every state and territory Will BIZ
in attendance at the coming convention
Your influence, by way of good will ant
good word, is hereby respectfully asked
and Your presence will be most cordial,
welcomed.
VIII you be so kind as to enlist the in
tcrest and sympathy of those societies o
which you are member, that they ais,
individually or in their corporate capacity
as may seem best, may signify the friend
lircss of their attitude toward this society
wholly constituted of and organized ant
cond ucted by women?
These facts are stated to you for tn
reason that current journalism has giyei
the impression that we are nothing, IL no
Third Party Prohbitionists and women
rights agitators. On these two subjects
we have nothing whatever to conceal, ant
beg you to come and find out for yoursel
our position; but We wish you to know
how much wider is the scope of this heav
en-ordained movement of the home makers
than the general public has been led tt
suppose Its motto is, No sectarianism il
religion, no sectonalism i'll politics, no Sc,
in citizenship; but each and all of us fo
God and Home and Native Land.
Yours for the protection of Home ant
the redemption of the Republic,
FRANCES L. WILLARD,
President, Evanston, ILL.,.
CAROLINE b. BUELL.,
Cor. Sec. Office of the National W. G.
T. t., 1G1 La Sale Street, Chicago