The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-14
TRIBUTE PAID To
FRANCES WILLARD
Rev. David w. Crane Gives Ad-
dress on Work of Late
Temperance Worker.

4 large congregation SSmbled at the
Tiff Methodist church last evening 20
pay tribute to the memory Of Frances
+. Willard the great leader of the tenn
perahce forces of the world who died
/ February Il, lSeS. The meeting was held
under the direction of the local branch
of the W. c. 7. L., of which Mrs. W. A.
! Wright is president. The music by the
/ choir was appropriate and well rendered.
\ reading was given by Ruby Long, Il
/ temperance song, written by Mrs Wight,
was sung by Mrs. Kirkman, and the ora
/ ton delivered by David w. Crane, the
| pastor of the church who said in part:
! we are met tonight in remembrance
of one of America 5 greatest WOmena
/ Frances l.. Willard. She was great not
/ only because she ChampiOned and per
/ sCnaly led in the most stupendous bat
! tie against unTighteOusness, but because
/ her personality was 50 pronounced and
entered so thoroughly into that movement
chat though she be now dead, she still
[ lives and speaks.
THE very least to be said concerning
/ her IS the greatest, that unselfish service
! toward God and home and native land
characterized every motion Of her active
/ career
/ "One day in 1874 by either the direction
I OF providence or q mere cOincident, per-
maps both Miss Willard received two let
/ tors of vast Importance to our beloved
! country as well as herself. The one con-
/ tanned AN offer 10 the presidency Of the
Woman college in Jacksonville, at
salary of 5000 per year, with earnest
] request that she accept the place, the
other proposition that she turn from
/ her chosen profession, leave the school.
come TO Chicago and with no promise of
Compensa ton, lead a small but determin-
| ed band of women in a temperance cru
/ SADIE In prayerful tears she sought Gods
viii and found it in her lifelong work
/ she turned aside that which i'm those days
! was considered q magnificent COmpensa-
/ ton and d place of honor and chose that
ruN rTvntr Hrss. l. L.
/ jters and anathema of the worlds rab-
/ bic. She went forth to do her very best
/ for God; and that she did.
/ In 1881 she was elected national presi-
l dent of the WOman's Christian Temper
ance Union, which had been organized
/ largely through her efforts, and i'm 1886
! was also made president of the WOman's
! christian Temperance Union of the
/ World In these respective positions Miss
| Willard lived to see the organization in
stalled i'm fifty different countries, and
/ a membership grown to more than 800
/ ueO of the best women of Gods great
/ world.
Her interest was in more than the di-
| rect suppression of the liquor traffic. and
/ she took the advance in every moral re
! FORM looking toward the betteTment of
] the human race,
There is much that I might add by
] way Of eulOgy and praise But my
| friends, of this | am certain, that if Miss
/ Willard might lCok out from heaven on
! of her name, and it might be hers to in
spire The message l bring to you and
am not sure but she does, she would urge
! upon you, her disciples the importance
! OF standing steadfast in the work YOU
/ have in hand.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
I Julon IS one of the strongest OrganiZa-
tons for righteous living and home pro
/ lection in the world. It's influence is felt
/ in the nursery and in every other cham
| Der OF the nome life: in the school the
church the market and in legislative
There is no organized power today,
Sslde from that of The saloon. 50 much
/ feared and respected by politicians as
/ that OF the Woman's Christian Temper
/ Ince MOL. Nearly every legislation
made during the past twenty wears look
/ ing toward moral and physical reforma-
Jlon IS Taceable TO the initial efforts of
/ Your organization. The teaching of alco-
aOilSm as taught in our public schools
the abolition of the army canteen. the at
tempted suppression of the white slave
trade, the agitation against pOlygamy
and national warfare have with many
ojher movements, been born and fostered
/ by your grand and noble institution.
/ 1t appears to me that the need of the
. aour Is for YOU to more thoroughly re-
cruIt Your ranks. You should number
/ IN your councils thousands of mothers
ara daughters whose sympatbies are
/ with YOU, but whose active cO-oDerat ton
/ is Wlthheld. These should speedily be
enrolled and given work to perform
speaking locally. your institution
should figure largely in the making of
/ the next legislature of Utah. And i'm INV
Judgment, there can no greater issue
appear than that which is bound to come
concerning the suppression of the lioUor
traffic in our fair state"