The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-06-26
Note of Thanks.


GENEROUS CoMRADEs:-On the I'd day
of April I issued my first personal appeal
asking not for money from your pockets or
your treasury, but that you hold a meeting
in the interest of the Worlds W. c. /. l.,
circulating an edition OF the Unz0n Signal
appropriate for the occasion, and gathering
up the free. will offerings of the people.
You had but seven weeks in which to carry
out the plan, but in that brief interval yon
ordered over a hundred thousand extra
copies of the Union Signal. so that
our edition had re ached and almost passed
the figure of two hundred thousand, and
the returns from your collections have,
from May q, uBtil this date, June 6, aver
aged 500 a day, each report being ac-
eompanied by a letter full Of tender inter-
est in the great and worldwide work to
which you and l are dedicated. One OF
these letters was from the daughter of Neal
Dow and they have eome to Us by the
hundreds from every coraer of The Repub-
lie. the smaller towns, villages, and ham
lets responding mere generally than the
great cities. AS We have turned over the
sacred pages of these Letters from the local
unions, we have seemed, at Rest Cottage.
to hear cumming in tie air the jubilant
strains,
There are bands of ribbon white,
Around the world, around the world"
Some of the contributions gave been in
postage stamps and amounting to little
more than a dime. The largest, / think,
from Evanston, this being naturally the re-
suit of a union meeting in the town where
our National and Worlds Headquarters
are located. Each contribution was ae-
knowledged on the day of lis receipt by
Anna Gordon, who, with Alice Briggs has
conducted the entire and heavy work of
keeping the accounts. We are hoping
that the total amount may reach three
thousand dollars. It has already passed
tie two thousand mark. Many Of the
unions were unable to hold their Worlds
W. e. T. L. meeting on the gath, and have
done or will do SO at some later date.
Please remember that this is entirely in
order, and you will have the momentum
of the great success herein reportedt to help
in carving your meeting to an qually
fortunate result, while the circulation of
that rare number of the Union Signal will
do more to build up and broaden the ideas
of the people in your several localities con-
corning the origin, history and evolution
Of the white ribbon than any other single
effort has ever done. The avalanche of
letters containing remittances will be
carefully bound and preserved as a heart
throb of our great army and showing its
quick response in time of need. Eyentu-
ally this volume will be deposited among
the archives of the Woman's Temple in
Chicago. The report involved SO much
detail that the Unson Signal can hardly
print its items, but we VIII give the ,otals
by States, and print the itemized account
as an appendix to my annual address in
Boston next autumn. It is a curious fact
that amid all these letters there are yet
| whole States from which we have not had
returns, but feel sure that when the final
account is rendered there will be no State
left out, and but few |, cal unions.
Believe me, with profound gratitude,
and a renewed and vivid sense Of your
love and loyalty.
Ever your affectionate and appreciatiye
comrade, FRANCES Z. WILLARD.