The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-18
TEMPERANCE UNION.
The Schoo of Methods To BE Opened To
Day.


The School OF Methods To BE Opened To
Day.
The local branch OF the Women's Ma
tional Christian Temperance union have
been looking forward to this event with n
great deal of interest. Two representatives
of the National union are now in the city,
Mrs. Caroline b.. Buell. and Miss Father
Pugh, and will open the school OF methods
to-day in the Grand Street Methodist
church. Both of the ladies are easy ana
graceful public speakers. A general invita-
ton is extended to tho public to attend the
school.
The National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, with its "A auxiliary state
and five territorial unions, besides mat OF
the District of Columbia, IS tho largest So
ciety ever composed exclusively OF women
and conducted entirely by them. 1t mas
been organized i'll every state and terrltory
of the nation, and locally IN ABOUT Ten
thousand towns and cities. Great Britain,
Canada and Australia, Hawaiian ISLANDS.
New Zealand, Indin and Japan. Madagas-
car and South Africa. have also organlzsu,
and there are local unions Ill every CIVIL
lied nation. The number of local unions
in the United States are about ten thousand,
including Young Womans' Christian Tenn
peranoe Unions, with q paid up memher-
ship of about 100000. and q direct follow,
ing of 100000. This society Ia the lineal
descendant of the great temperance cru
sade of 1851, and is a union OF Christian
women for the purpose OF educating the
young; forming q better public sentiments,
and reforming the drinking classes.
The society has now been organized sew
enteen years. Its work is we'll known, be-
ing com prised under the general divisions
of preventive, educational, ~evanRelistic.
social and legal, besides the department OF
organization. Ito auxiliarles have been,
confsssedly, the chief factors IN state cam
paigns for statutory prohibition and con-
stitutional amendments. 1t began the
movement for scientific temperance educa-
ton in the public schools, having been IN
strumental in securing law to that end in
all but ten of the states. and besides this
it has secured congressional legislation, by
means of which all the territories and the
District of Columbia are brought under the
same benetcent statutes, and one-half the
children of America who are OF school age
are regularly taught the effects of alcohol
ls and other narcotics upon the human
system. The National w. G. L. U. has
united northern and southern women III a
common work for God and Home and ma
tive land, thus sweeping away the allena-
ton of years.
In recent years it has bravely championed
the cause of social purity. seeking TO in
struct the youth Of the nation, uplifting
and preserving it from the ways that take
hold upon death. 1t also strives to redeem
outcast women from q slavery worse than
chains, and by better laws to secure %protec-
ton to women and girls from the outrages
of brutal men.
The programme Of to-day's session of the
school is as follows:
$50 a. m.-Devotional exercises.
lo-Gsneral work of lcc,l unions and duties OF
officers. MRS. Bue!l and Mrs. Pugh.
0.3O-Narcotics. Miss Pngh.
ll-Literaturo. Miss Buell..
l2-Noontide prayer.
2 p. m.-hymn and prayer.
3-Juveniie work,
S3o-Que ton box.
i:S0-Addrass.