Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-09-21
National w. c. T. u. Convention.
EVANSTON, ILL.,, August 20, 1888

EDITOR OF WoMAN's CHRONICLE: The sixteenth
convention of the National Womans Christian
Temperance Union meets in Battery D, Chicago
November 8, and continues through the 18TH, with
meetings of special interest on the Sabbath day.
The society represents over two hundred thousand
earnest-hearted women who are devoted to works
OF philanthropy along lines that build up the tenn
perance reform. That their view of this reform is
very broad is proved from the fact that they have
forty distinct departments of work, under the gen.
eral heads Of Preventive Educational, Evangel-
istic Social, Legal and the Department of Organ
izaton. Through their influence, scientific tenn
perance instruction has been secured by law in all
the territories in all the schools supported in whole
or in part from the United States Treasury (name-
ly: West Point, Annapolis the Indian schools,
army post schools, etc., and in twenty-seyen
States the same laws are now in operation. They
have special lines of work for soldiers, sailors,
miners and all classes who are in circumstances of
especial temptation so far as pure and wholesome
habits of life are concerned. They have a network
of juvenile societies extending from Tampa Bay
to Puget Sound. They have systematic course
of reading for mothers, and mothers meetings are
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 the. Union Signal which has sixty thou
sand subscribers and is the chief paper ever
edited and published 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
toto al OH for of cakn
ment of the White Cross and the White Shield,
which is one of the largest, has called especial at
tention to the securing of laws for the protection
of women, and to the equalzing of the standard
of an upright life, making it the same for men that
it has always been for women. This society has
about ten thousand local auxiaries, and repre-
sentatives from every State and Territory will be
in attendance at the coming convention. Your
influence, by way of good will and good word, is
hereby respectfully asked, to help make this con-
vention success, and your presence will be most
cordially welcomed.
Will YOU be so kind as to enlist the interest and
sympathy of those societies of which you are
member that they also individually or in their
corporate capacity, as may seem best, may signify
the frendlness of their attitude toward this society,"
wholly constituted of and organized and conducted
by women?
These facts are stated to you for the reason that
current journalism has given the impression that
we are nothing if not Third Party ProhibitionistS
and women's rights agitators. On these two sub
jects we have nothing whatever to conceal, and beg
you to come and find out for yourself our posi-
ton; but we wish you to know how much wider is
the scope of this heayen-ordained movement of the
home-makers, than the general public has been led
to suppose Its motto is No Sectarianism in reli-
gion, no sectionasm in politics, no sex in citizen
Ship: but each and all Of us for God, Home and
Native Land.
Yours for protection of home and the redemp-
ton of the Republic
FRANCES +. WILLARD, President,
CAROLINE B. BUELL. Cor. Sec.
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