Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-14
o.eI,ra.ion Of Principles Of the W. c. I. U,

nAclarati0n Of principles u tno ". Y. ]. v.
We believe in the coming Of His
Kingdom whose service is perfect free
aom. because His laws, written in our
r,embers as we'll as in nature and in
grace. are perfect, converting the soul.
We believe in the gospel of the Gold
ON Rule. and that each mans habits of
life should be an example safe and
henefcent for every other man to fol-
low.
We believe that God created both
NAN and woman in His own image,
ond therefore, we believe in one stand
ard of purity for both men and women,
and in the equal right of all to hold
onnions and to express the same in
the home. on the platform, in the pulpit
and at the ballot box.
We believe in living wage; in an
eight hour day; in courts of concilia-
tion and arbitration; in justice as OPP
posed to greed of gain; in peace on
earth and good will to men,
We therefore formulate, and for our
selves adopt the following pledge, ask
ing our sisters and brothers of COM
mon danger and a common hope, to
make common cause with us, in work.
ing its reasonable and helpful precepts
into the practice of everyday life:
l hereby solemnly promise, God help
ing me. to abstain from all distilled,
fermented and malt liquors, including
wine. beer and cider,as a beverage, and
TO employ all proper means to discour-
age the use of and traffic in the same.
To confirm and enforce the rationale
of this pledge. we declare our purpose
TO educate the young; to form better
publjc sentiment; to reform, so far as
possible, by religious, ethical and scien-
tific means, the drinking classes; to
seek the transforming power of divine
grace for ourselves and all for whom
we work, that they and we may will
fully transcend no law of pure and
wholesome living and finally we pledge
ourselves to labor and pray that all
these principles, founded upon the gos-
pie of Christ, may be worked out into
the customs of society and the laws of
the land.
The following question and answer
are from the Annual Leafiet of the
Union:
What are some of the principal re-
suits that the organization has been
instrumental in securing?
Its auxiliaries have been, confessedly,
the chief factors in state campaigns for
statutory prohibition and constitution
al amendments. 1t began the move
ment for scientific temperance educa-
ton in the public schools, having been
instrumental in securing laws to that
end in but four of the states; and
besides this ii has secured congress
sional legislation, by means of which
all the territories and the District of
Columbia are brought under the same
beneficent statutes.
The work of the National w. G. T. U.
among the children in Sunday schools,
Loyal Temperance LegionS and kinder
gartens. its efforts to influence college
students and to train and organize
young women for philanthropic life;
its evangeistic work for non-church-
goers, for railway employees, soldiers,
lumbermen, miners Especially for the
drinking men of all classes), all these
have proved the breadth of its compre-
Its efforts to reach the pauper and the
prisoner to establish reformatories and
homes for the wretched victims of in
ebriety and their suffering children.
and its temperance flower mission
must appeal to every true heart.
1t is permeatng public sentiment by
Its steady advances upon the press
through monthly and weekly temper
ance papers, and by its countless con-
ventions.
1t has sought to purify the holidays
of the people, coming with its sisterly
influence to the fairs, celebrations, en-
campments, and expositions, and by it's
unrequited toll providing refreshments,
Keeping alcoholic poisons off the
grounds, and circulating pure water
ana pure literature. 1t has battled for
the maintenance of the Sabbath, sought
To Introduce the unfermented juice of
the grape at the sacramental tables and
TO secure a day of prayer for temper
ance IN the week of prayer.
IL has circulated countless petitions
ana addressed synods and conferences.
teachers associations and medical So
cieties, as well as legislatures, state
and national, always for one object
and With one plea:
we beseech you to refrain from the
use OF alcoholics, and to outlaw the
liquor traffic"
IN recent years it has bravely cham
piohed the cause of woman's ballot, the
iaoof movement and social purity. 1t
SEEKS TO instruct the youth of the ma
.'oh' uplifting and preserving them
from the ways that take hold upon
ueath 1t also strives to redeem out
east women from a slavery worse than
ma. OF chains, and by better laws to
SEIZURE protection to women and girls
,'ohi the outrage of brutal men. 1t
mas been instrumental in raising the
se Oh consent in nearly every state in
."e Union, and it's influence is being
,,..'ongiy felt in the publication of our
literature and art.