The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-04-07
To the Memory Of Frances
{. Willard.

the time of the national W. {. T..
III. Convention last November.
was accepted by congress today.
This is the first pedestal out of
about forty erected 10 the mem
DRY OF a woman. In his prayer
i'm the House. the chaplain refer
ing 10 the exercises incident 10
the acceptance. in expression of
that which has made the mem
DRY of Frances Willard SO treas
ured. he said that 10y the purity
of her soul. the breadth and
scope of her intellectual attain
mentS. the eloQuence and chasti-
ty of her speech and her unself-
ish devotion 10 the purity of the
home. the state and hums nj Y.
Frances +. Willard had won for
herself the splendid and Just
euncrowned queen
of purity and temperance.
The resolution authorizing the
acceptance of the statue was Of
fered by Senator Cullom. who
said in part:
Mr.. President. Miss Willard
was a worthy representative of
her sex. known 10 the world for
her devotion TO the cause of tenn
perance and for her efforts in be-
half of the human race.
She had a wonderful career.
beginning in poverty. struggling
with adverse conditions with
courage and faith in the right;
she Overcame all obstacles in her
pathway and became one of the
foremost women Of her time.
The story of her life is inSpir-
ing to her sex and uplifting 10
humanity. | esteem it an honor
to have known personally Frances
f. Willard during the greater
part of her active life. ! knew
from personal knowledge of the
work in which she was engaged.
and | witnessed with pleasure
the wonderful success which at
tended her efforts. She was a re-
former but she never shared the
usual unpopularity of reformers.
and her advocacy of reform in
temperance never made her Of
fensive to any class of people.
Notwithstanding her public life.
she was. nevertheless. a real wO-
man. with that degree of SINGER
ity and modesty that commanded
the utmost respect from all with
with whom she came in contact.
Mr.. President. ! am proud
that the State Of Illinois was the
home of Frances +. Willard.
In the ceremony Of accepting
the statue. Congressman Henry
T. Rainey Of Illinois was the
principal speaker. Mr.. Rainey
alluded TO the fact that until to-
day no state had contributed TO
the statuary hall a statue of a wo-
man. He continued in part as
follows:
When the act was passed which
established this hallof fame men
were winning the right 10 place
here upon the field of battle. at
the head of crushing squadrons
Of cavalry. or directing themoye-
ment of long lines Of infantry
amid the roar Of cannon and the
din of war.
But the real battle which made
this a nation one and indivisible
was fought and won after the
surrender of Appomattox. The
real victory was won long after
the green grass was growing and
the flowers We're blooming upon
the graves Of the men who fell in
this, the greatest civil war the
world ever saw. II was a victory
won in a battle waged by men
and women of the South, stand
ing shoulder to shoulder with the
men and women of the North a
peaceful struggle to quench the
fires of sectional hate and antago-
nism.
Ii was at this time that there
came out of the North a new
leader not Of armed men, but a
leader of unarmed women, a
woman of supreme capacity.
mental and moral and physical.
Y Illinois today presents her statue,
exquisitely carved out of the
whitest of Carrara marble. TO the
nation as her contribution TO tn 6
great hall of fame. In the years
which followed the war one of the
forces most potent to sweep away
the mists and let in the sunlight
upon the North and South alike
was the army of women led by
Frances +. Willard marching
through the North and South,
following the white banners upon
which she had inscribed the