The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-18
TO THE PUBLIC.

The principle object of temperance
workers is to create public sentiment
which will lead TO better social and legal
conditions. The public conscience must
be reached and nodded before success
can be attained.
This must be done by planting the
truth. The question is how is the best
way to reach the people. Do everything
that helps to make people better.
Do everything that in greater or less
degree enlightens the multitudes. Not
least among the instrumentalities for
good is the family newspaper. GAS a
man readeth so is he.''
In this busy pushing latter-end of the
nineteenth century every one must take
time to look Into the paper. Everyone
wants to know what the world is doing.
We want to use this medium in a very
condensed way to tell the world why we
ing, and what we want the people to do,
and SO we make our bow.
What Has the w. C. II. U. Done for Great
Reforms.
BY Miss Francis E. Willard
Its mightiest work has been to unsecu-
lariZe the temperance reform and illus
trate its unm,xed righteousness. In the
crusade it was baptized at the affairs of
God and received into the church. The
translation of womanhood out of the
passive and into the active voice is the
next greatest result of this movement.
The w. G. 7. U. is the Woman Move
Inent under church auspicies, and this
I .s,kr e.. i
Its departments include evangelistic
work; bringing into the great system of
our public schools direcG and well-sea-
soned temperance education, training
the children to habits of total abstinence
from alcoholics, tobacco and bad Ian
guage; teaching teachers how to teach
the science of temperance and the basis
of physiology. hygiene and chemistry :;
promoting dress reform; introducing
temperance habits and education at all
fairs and -eSpositions, and other HOLIDAYS
OF the people; visiting all institutions
for the defective, dependent and delin-
quent classes; organizing special work
among railroad employees, soldiers, sail
ors, miners, lumbermen and ranchmen ::
holding mothers meetings in the inter
est of White Cross work; circulating
temperance literature and building up a
great publishing house with headquar-
ters in Chicago; studying the relations
of the temberance and labor movement; ;
working for peace and international ar
bitration.
The efforts of the Young Women's
Christian Temperance Unions are di-
rected rather towards formation than re-
formation, towards prevention rather
than cure. They seek to teach the child
rem the Injurious effects of alcoholic
drinks, and to lead them, by their in
structions, to be good home-makers. BY
free reading-rooms they endeavor to
keep working boys away from saloons
and improper places of amusement. dur
ing their leisure hours. They strive bv
social influence to raise the standard of
total abstinence among their own associ-
ates, and by the distribution of litera-
ture, they seek to create an intelligent
temperance sentiment among all classes.
On September 20, 1892, the order of
Sons of Temperance will he fifty wears
old. In connection with the four hun
dredth anniversary of the discovery of
America by Columbus an effort will be
made to increase the membership of the
Eastern New York division to 10000. If
this is accomplished, the order will num-
Der on this continent over one hundred
thousand.
Words faom an Old Teacher.