Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-07-30
w. C. T. ". COLUMN.
FOR THANK OFFERING DAY
FEB. IL.

Mrs Almedia Wiley of Greensboro
in Observance IF BED letter Dnv:
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union is an organization of
Christian women banded together for
the protection of the home, the
abolition of the liquor traffic, and the
triumph of Christ's Golden Rule, in
custom and law This organization
grew out of the Woman's Temper
ance Crusade OF the wintkr of 1873
IA, when the women of Hillsboro,
| Washington Court house and other |
Ohio towns were nerved to concerted |
action against the saloon, under the |
| inspiration of a TEMPERANCE ADDRESS |
delivered by DIR. Dio Lewis of Boston.
Those women gathered in the streets
to pray and marched two by two
into saloons and there besought the
men who drank to cease to do so,
and the men who sold to give up the
business. and invited all to accept
Christ. In fifty days this whirlwind
of the Lord had swept the liquor
traffic out of two hundred and fifty
towns and villages.
The first local Woman's Christian
Temperance Union was organized at
Fredonia, n. Y. Dec. Is, 1873, With
Mrs. Barker it's first president. Mrs
Esther Mcneil was elected president
in 1877 and is still in Office.
This work go stirred the mind and
heart of Frances Willard that she was
; led to dedicate her life to this great
work. Miss Willard proved such an
energetic and magnetic leader, and
pre- eminentIy successful organizer,
' that the National Woman's Christian
[ Temperance Union was organized the
next winter, or in November, 1874, at
Cleveland, Ohio, the delegates being
; from sixteen states; and four Others
= sent greetings. The officers were
: Mrs Annie Wittenmyer, president;
d Miss Frances Willard, corresponding
S secretary: At the Indianapolis ma
= tionaI convention, 1879, Miss Willard
/ was elected president.
The Woman's Christian Temper
= ance Union was devoted primarily tt
- the extinction of the liquor traffic
a But it has gone far beyond the limits
J. of this original intention. Under th'
r leadership of Miss Willard, who's
70 mind was as broad as the needs 0
eF misery. there have grown out of thu
Oh w. @. T. u. forty departments whlol
re illustrate the variety of Miss Willard
> interest. The organization whic
. Miss Willard made SO strong remain
.r to-day and will remain one of tn
e. most useful factors in the world 70
D. the correction of evil Influence. It
a, based upon the home itself and in tn
t; home it works its best ends. Tn
&c National w. @. T. z. has steadil
-, grown until now it has sixty-fou
" auxiliary unions; fifty six stat
rd California, Washington and Idah
)02 have two each), six territorial an
I'd the District Of Columbia and Bawa
ld- one each. This grand movement
= not only carried on 10 our own believe
Ok. United States, but now exists in fit
different countries, so the whit
ribbon encircles the globe and
steadily increasing in numbers al
,as- influence.
We all know that sin unity there
tck, strength" and 10 ghty power
ers. combat the terrible evil of inter
-4 perance and the largely increasil
use of the deadly cigarette which
80 sapping the very life and running t
1nn intellect of our children and you
throughout the land. The repol
IS given by those who have the mea
shell of knowing about this pernicio
hic- habit of the use of the cigarette {
&c appalling. Surely something shot
mel; be done to stop the use of the poisc
esS' Gus thing. 1t behooves one and
,sh who desire the twell- being of
nov. children and the temperance Cal
in general to be up and doing. ]
C2c harvest truly is great and the lab
rel ers are indeed few and we sho
shell work while the day lasts, for
DUG night soon cometh when no man {
work. Let us claim. the prom
rreI; o,;,,o a.. a., a. cocoon va al
oxen -.
! reap if We faint not" and let US
a : forward in the work as never befc
box: The National Woman's Christ
rots, Temperance Union now has thirty
ush- more organizers constantly in
6CG field, and for the benefit of these |
oxen to help extend the work there '
1n's' established at the st. Paul cow
49, ton in 1898 fund called the Fran
E. Willard Memorial Organizing Flu
pro- From thiss fHnd there was app
priated during, athe year 1905 o
held. $4,000 to- help Ii organizing I
S1kG unions Yof which there were