The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-10-11
Welcome! White RibbOners! (!

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are glad to have you with us, because
of what you do and what you repre-.
sent, and what it means for the race
Your work is much mis- under.
stod, and is not generally appreciated
because those who criticise your eff.
forts are "a years behind the times
They think of you in connection with
the crusade of 1873, and connect you
with the antics of Carry Nation in
1904, and do not know that out OF
the Crusade has developed a great
organization that encircles the globe
and that the antics of Carry Nation
have no more to do with your work
than Kansas horse thieves had to dc
with freeing the slaves in Kentucky
You and your knot of white ribbon
are honored and respected, ignored
criticised, ridiculed and opposed, ac-
cording to the understanding or lack
of understanding Of the individual
concerning the particular work in
which you are engaged, and the great
scope it covers. To the extent that
people understand your work, you
have their respect and sympathy, If
not their cooperation and support.
Too many men think that you are
simply working to take away some
body's personal liberty, but they are
just third of a century behind the
times, and if our busines men and
farmers lift their hats to you as they
pass, it is because they understood
your work and respect your emblem,
the white ribbon. If our school boys
tip their caps when they meet you
and the school girls salute you, it is
to you token that the work is deep
" rooted and rising with the new
generation. ye4
II we could get the peoples ear
we would say to them for YOU
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union has been organized "a
years. Long ago it covered all the
states of The American Union, and
had for its motto, "For God and
Home and Native Land" But Amec-
lea was too small for such work and
The. Worlds Christian Temperance
Union was organized, which includes
more than fifty nations, and has it's
headquarters at The Woman's Tenn
pie at Chicago, grand granite struc-
ture twenty stories high, which they
built themselves in the heart of the
city. Their motto was enlarged to
read, For God and home and every
land"
Their work covers the world, and
their wards are the human race and
the dumb animals. Their greatest
leader was Frances E. Willard. Their
greatest followers are those who
knew her best, and their greatest
benefactors are generations yet un-
born, for thirty years ago, the w. G.
T. U. woke up to the hereditary in
fluences, and set to work to educate
a generation of boys and girls who
should live such natural lives that
they could in turn transmit normal,
instead of abnormal tendencies.
To this end attention was directed
to the public schools, only to find
that the text books were unfit, and
needed to be revised. They under
took to revise the text books of the
nation, and brot on what came to be
known as "The Text Book War" and
they fought it out state by state, un-
til today they dictate character of
books and the character of teaching
for the schools of all the states, Ha-
waii, and The Philippines. They went
to the root of evil by blocking the
sale of every text book that did not
conform to the Christian-Temper-
ance-Purity Standard of excellence,
and they hold the key to the situa-
ton.
When they opposed patent medi-
cines and hospitals on the ground of
the unnecessary and unjustifiable
use of alcohol and were met by a
world of medical wisdom that said
nothing else would do, they built
hospitals and operated them on the
non-alcoholic basis, and these are a
standing rebuke to arrogance and old
customs.
Nineteen centeuries ago people dis
cussed the advent of The Savior, and
said it was too good to be true, and
were slow to accept salvation because
it was free. During the past century,
people have considered living tenn
perate lives In all things, and mil
ions have rejected the idea, saying it
was too good to be true, and because