Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-28
Temperance Notes.

| GHEASES l. Organization, III.
SSN4 Preventive, Ill. Educa-
GZEp tional, w. Evangelistic,
V. Social. VI. Legal.
Besides these there are. I. The Af-
gliated Interests. ii. Standing Com
mittees.
Under the six chief heads are
grouped various departments. each one
under the charge of National Supt.
The total number of departments is
! Sc; if affiliated interests, 3; of stand
ing committees, Z; of branches, 2. "a
branch is one degree higher than
Dept. its Supt. being er o6fcto mem
her of the Executive Committee.)
"a. What are the various depart
ments and who are their superintend-
ents?
Zach department will be taken up
| later-separately.)
| 25. What are some of the principal
results that the organization has been
instrumental in securing?
It's auxiliaries have been confessed
| ly the chief factors in State campaigns
for statutory prohibition and constitu-
tional amendments. 1t began the
movement for Scientific Temperance
education in the public schools, hav-
| ing been Instrumental in securing la ws
to that end In all but four of the states;
and besides this it has secured Con-
gressional legislation. by means of
which all the Territories and the Dis
trict of Columbia are brought under
the same benefcent 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 evangelistic work for nou-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-
hension and the tirelessness of its zeal.
Its efforts to reach the pauper and the
prisoner, to establish reformatories
| and homes for the wretched victims of
inebriety and their suffering children.
and its temperance Flower Mission
must appeal to every true heart.
1t is permeating 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
campments, and exhibitions and by its
unreauited toll providing refreshments,
keeping alcoholic poisons off the
grounds, and circulating pure water and
pure literature. 1t has battled for the
maintenance of the Sabbath, sought to
introduce the unfermented juice of the
grape at the sacramental table, and to
secure day of prayer for temperance
in the week of prayer. 1t has circu-
lated countless petitions and addressed
synods and conferences, teachers asso-
Citations and medical societies, as well
as legislatures, state and national, al
ways for one object and with one plea:
1--WE beseech you to refrain from. the
use of alcoholics, and to outlaw the
liquor traffic"
In recent years it has bravely cham
pioned the cause of womau's ballot, the
labor movement and social purity. It
seeks to instruct the youth of the ma
ton, uplifting and preserving them
from the ways that take hold unto
death. 1t also strives to redeem out
cast women from slavery worse than
that of chains, and by better laws to
secure protection TO women and girls
from the outrage of brutal men. 1t
has been instrumental in raising the
Age of Consent in nearly every State
in the Union, and its influence is being
strongly felt in the publication of our
literature and art.-Annual Leafet.
MARY E. HILBURN,
Press Sup't A. V. Union.