Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-25

the worlds petition, calling upon all gov
ernments to put away the traffic in alcoholic
liquors and opium. In 1884, under commits
sion Of the National W. c. I. T., she carried
a memorial to each of the four political con-
venLons for the nomination of president of
the United States.
In 1889 the 50th birthday of Miss Willard
was celebrated at Evanston, ILL.,, by public
testimonial letters being read from John G.
Whittier, Mary A. Livermore. Susan b. An
thony, the Rev. Lyman Abbott, ,ex-Presdent
Hayes, the Rev. L. L. Hale and many others.
In 1891, at her installation for the 18th time
as president of the union. an acre of land at
Mount Desert was presented to her by Mrs.
DR.. Fulton of Maine. In 1898 Miss Willard
was the guest of Lady Henry Somerset
There was Il meeting in Exeter hall London,
to welcome her, at which her ladyship pre-
sided. 1t was grand ovation. Speeches
were made by Lady Somerset, Canon Will
berforce, Mr.. Stead and several others. Later
in the season the two ladies made tour of
England, Scotland and Wales and were
everywhere enthusiastically received. The
following year Lady Somerset visited this
country and gave an impetus to the temper
ance movement. In September, 1885, Miss
Willard went to Europe as a temperance
evangelist. She remained in Europe for some
time and carefully studied the condition of
that country in relation to the use of
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that, notwithstanding contrary public
opinion, France is a good field for tenn
perance work. In London she presided at
great international temperance conven-
tion at which petition for the suppression
of the whiskey traffic was shown, signed by
$500, 600 persons. In the latter part of the
same year, Miss Willard conceived a project
of establishing a home for the worn out
workers in the W. G. L. Z. 1t is not the
house where she was born, but the west
ern Forest Home, near GAINESVILLE, Wis,
where she passed her earlier years. and
where her mother worked and studied
and thought, that her children might re-
ceive the best education possible in that,
| then remote, place, far distant from the ad-
vantages afforded in the east. For this rea-
! son, 1t was thought that this was the most
| fitting of all places to be used for home
where all veteran workers in the temper
ance cause can retire when no longer able to
| participate In active work.
| For advocating the admission of Catholics
| and Hebrews to fraternal relations with the
| Woman's Christian Temperance union, and
for recommending the formation of branches
! among them, Miss Willard was rebuked and
| protested against by the Boston organization,
but she declared she was proud of what
she had done, and would stand or fall by it, :"
| The good she has accomplished during her
| long and useful career, and its influence
upon future generations, is incalculable.
BY her life of continued self-sac-
rihce, by the long years of untiring
industry in the cause which she believed
paramount to all others, by the tender elo-
quence and deep religious earnestness
which she carried into her work, she has
done honor to her sex and elevated herself,
unconsciously, to the highest pinnacle of a
noble womanhood.
Two funeral services were held stimuli
taneously, one in this city and one in Evans
ton. The funeral here took place in the
Broadway tabernacle. 1t was entirely in the
hands of the W. G.. r. U. officers and was OF
the sim plest nature. Delegates were present
from ali New York branches of the union
and each member wore a white carnation.
Miss Wizards body was taken from
the Empire hotel to the home of
her nelce, Mrs. W. W. Baldwin