The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-26

i pastors of the churches and others as
sisted in the services, the singing be-
] ing led by cornet player from the
/ band.
i We also about that time started a
| children's temperance society, or Loyal
| Temperance Legion, which was carried
on with varying success for many years
under the leadership of Mrs. Coan, Miss
| Beckwith, Miss Lowrey. Miss Ada
/ Jones, Miss Warehouse, Miss Widdi-
field, Mrs. Bowen, Miss Judd and
| others.
/ In 1889 Young Woman's Christian
Temperance Union was organized by
Miss Jessie Alderman, who was then
starting upon her round the world
| journey for that purpose. This was
maintained for a number of years UNI
der the efficient presidency of Mrs.
| Jordan, until these, our daughters,
were most of them married, and family
/ cares superseded their interest in the
| society. We may hope that after a
! few years their daughters may fill their
! places in such reforms, as We hope and
believe they will not neglect to take
up this work which we shall soon lay
down.
| Our effort has always been to keep
| on hand a large assortment of temper
ance literature in many languages for
free distribution wherever it would be
welcome. We have sent out many
thousands of leaflets, papers and book
lets TO ships, army stations, hospitals,
prisons. schools. Sunday schools, Sal
walton Army and homes. These mod
ern publications are not as many sup
pose dry statistics and dull morals,
but are bright up to date stories and
facts which we all ought to read. In
this case as in many others we have
tried to "sow beside all waters"
We have at various times contribut-
ed much original literature to the local
papers. For some time we paid for a
column in a weekly paper which we
supplied mainly with original matter,
Mrs Ellen McCulIy contributing much
of it. WE also at one time hired for a
year an advertising space in the street
cars, which we filed with brief but
suggestive statements bearing upon the
temperance question. /
We have made several attempts to-
open a temperance coffee house. but
the expense and the difficulty of find
ing a suitable person for the manage
ment have prevented any lengthy sue
the WoInan's Exchange, which has
been SO successfully carried on for
nearly ten years by our manager Mrs.
Marques, was originally a project of
the W. c. T. o. and remained so until
it Incorporated and became an in
dependent organization.
Since we became a territory of the
United States we have come under the
national law, requiring that THE nat
ure of alcoholic drinks and narcotics,
and special construction as to their eff
fects upon the human system, in con-
nection with the several divisions OF
the subject of physiology and hygiene,
shall be included in the branches of
study taught in the common or public
schools, etc. We have an efficient SUI
perintendent of this department who
by correspondence and other means,
endeavors to urge the teachers in all
the schools not to neglect this study,
assuring them that we will gladly CO.
operate with them, in every effort to
make this law more effective.
For several recent years we have had
committee and have furnished the
means to send every week flowers and
fruit to the various hospitals of our
city. 1t has been a labor of love and
one requiring much effort on the part
of those whose hands have too often
been already filed with daily duties.
Some forty or fifty bouquets a week
have been arranged with a text of
scripture attached to each, and sent to
the different hospitax- We have ex
pended during the twenty years, in
various branches of our work about
SIS, 5000
These are but few of the many
things we have attempted. The ques-
ton of what We have accomplished I
dare not face. God knows. 1 do not.
We have at any rate tried to show that
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union is not a dead letter. but an ''act-
i've, living protest against" and that we
that menaces the home,' and that we
are sure that He who is on our side
is greater than all who are against us.
Miss Willard says: THE history of
the reformer, whether man or woman.
on any line of action is this, when he
sees it all alone he is fanatic when
a good many see it with him, they are
enthusiasts; when all see it, he is a /
hero. The gradations are as clearly
marked by which he ascends from zero
TO hero, as the lines of latitude from
the Equator to the North Pole" We
shall doubtless need to wait long for
the apotheasis of the temperance re-
form when we shall all be crowned
heroes. But while we believe we have
all passed the zero point, we may not
yet hope to escape the stigma attach