El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-28


miners, and railroad employees. The
department of purity calls special at.
tentiOn to the securing of laws for the
protection of women aud for making
the standard of an upright life, both
legally and morally, the same for men
that it has always been for women.
My hearers, can you not see in this
something worthy OF your considera-
ton and endorsement? Outside of this
great movement can you point to any
thing that is advocating and carrying
| into action this advocacy? There is
another department of work in this
connection that 1 do not want you to
overlook. That is its
SOCIAL FEATURE.
This society is teaching the young
people of today, that the very best
body else. Hence, the designations of
social life are gradually being evoluted
into entertainments upon q higher
plain such as will supply genuine re-
creation. Womau's ingenuity has
solved the problem of combining the
useful and the beautiful. Through
graceful work of fingers the w. G. T.
came the gems of the exhibit. While
as an organized power, by printed
page, hammered motto, petition roll.
and pleading voice, she utters her pro-
test against the sale of intoxicauts for
she fights in the name of ''God and
Home and Every Land"
Current journalism to some degree,
and some precious mothers to an
alarming degree, make the impress
sion that the w. G.. T. U. women are
rothing but "women's rights agita-
! tstors." On this subject the w. G. T.
U. ladies have their :decided views,
| but they wish the outside world to
know how much wider is the scope of
this "heaven ordained movement of
the home Makers than is generally
supposed by those not familiar with its
| workings.
Now, my friends, have reiterated
to you part only, of the great plans
and the partial accomplishment of the
same of aud by The Women's Christ
tian Temperance Union. You can
| have some idea of it's m .gnitude, and
| Importance, but while this is the work
the question is-who IS the worker?
You behold the ma .nifcent, beautiful
| structure-but wonder who the archi-
tecr may be! We can safely coDjec-
ture-that some great person has Civ
en- herself to q great cause-and as we
| take minute survey of this colossal
work, we can safely conclude that it is
q monument to some. Who is it that
has given her time, talent and her
life to carry on such a gigantic scheme,
mbrscing so many lines of work, cal
cu!ated to bring, as results, blooming
flowers energy-had inculcated in the
| heart of public opinion-only an enter
tainment, so to speak, of the great
movements of reform, but by her per-
sistency OF purpose-her consecration
of life, her self denial has succeeded in
establishing the principles of her
cause, not only In the heart of our fair
land, but planted seeds of reform in
nearly every country on the globe? It
was
MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD.
When against the most gigantic
evil of all the centuries
has arrayed herself, and the purest and
lives to it's destruction; when every lip
was praying and every eye was look-
ing for q great leader to unite ard
marshall the forces to victory. God
laid his hand on Miss Frances Willard,
and raised her up, and commissioned
her to go forth in this great field of Ia
DOR.
She was born in Churchville, near
Rochester, N. Y, September %, 1889.
She came from q royal line of ances-
try. Her early life was spent in liv-
ing-I mean this, she was allowed to
lay the foundation of q long, useful
life, by outdoor living and INDUCING
In those exercises that were develop
ing in their tendency. When she be-
Miss Willard graduated from what is
now known as the women's college of
the Northwestern University at Evans
ton, ILL.,, in 1859. She became dean of
the college and professor of aesthetics
in her alma mater. She has travelled
and studied languages and history of
the fine arts in Europe and the east.
She was finely educated.
She possessed remarkable organic
ing ability and winning character
such as is possessed by few. She was an
author as we'll as q reformer. Her
works have q wide circulation and have
been we'll received. But the greatest
work and what will stand the test of
time, and as ages come and 60 will
shine brighter, is that to which she
has given 20 years Of her best life.
Temperance"
Miss Willard became'president of the
w. c. T. U. in 1879 and remained so
until her death, which occurred Feb
ruary Is, 1898, in the City of New York.
My friends, bright light has gone
out. A light SO bright in it's effulgency
that its rays have shone round the
world, ana the name FRANCES w lll6' q
ha= become household in every coun-
try. 1t was she who resigned her lucra-
tive position in the Northwestern Uni
versity soon after the crusade and
visited every town in the United States
having 10000 Inhabitants. 1t was
Frances Willard, the first woman ever
elected president of q college, who re-
signed her large salary and advocated
the temperance cause with her whole
life. On receiving an offer of the pre-
sidency of the Normal Institute Of New
York at salary of $500 year and at
| the same time receiving an offer of the
presidency of the Chicago w. G. T. U.
it was Frances Willard who refused
the former and CT ose the latter, which
entailed poverty aud hardship.
Some ore has sald: "Upon the verge
of young womanhood she met truth and
loved him. Before the altar of God and
her conscience she pledged tina: she
would be faithful into him till death"
''No little lips had called her mother,
bit all the homeless waits we're her
Children The portrait of Miss Will