The Prescott daily news., 1914-01-19

years of toll, of planning, of praying to bring us to this hour when we feel able to take hold of the powers that be in our national government and square them with the will of God.
 We need not go into the remote history of the temperance reform, for It would take hours to show it's work ings, and it's many ups and downs, but we will dwell for few minutes on the forty years wandering since the women espoused the cause.
 We are all familiar with the Cru sade, but what inspired the crusade? Many things led to it, chief of which was the union of government with the liquor traffic when President Lincoln consented to a revenue tax to tide us over the great expenditure of the war. Little did he realize his normous error, and he consented only that it be used for little while. The women saw that the license principle only made the business respectable, and that things were getting worse and worse, hence their uprising. Women had come into action during the war; some relieving the distressed on battle fields,-others staying by the stuff" at home, and really supporting the families. Her horizon had widened by performing these splendid endea- vors, that it was nothing but natural that she should turn her thought to the overcoming of the great foe of all homes.
 "As the temperance reform seemed to be in all things, it was the part of wisdom that we bind every reform to it,-and thus there came into being our more than forty different depart ments. Any woman who wants to do any kind of christian or philanthropic work can find niche that will fit her in the Womans Christian Temperance Union.
 "When we began to dissect the body polite we found that no form of li- cense was ever known to restrict the sale or drinking of liquor so we have been uncompromising. We have often been tried to be dissuaded from our high standard, but not one inch have we yielded. Instead of that we have fought and won many battle for mo- license. We have created a conviction that is world wide in that line, and now people are beginning to feel that liquor dealing must be dealt with as we deal with murder, theft or arson.
 Ut seemed an insurmountable task to attempt to get scientific temperance Instruction in the schools, but it was accomplished by Hurculean efforts, of which the outside world never dreams, and it has done more to bring us to this hour than multitude of other agencies combined. Whatever one wants to work out in a nation, he must first put into the heart of a child. It is the longest way, and the world wonders what one is doing all that time, as they hear no blasting of trumpets nor see any great demon stration, but oh! how the harm is working,-it is like the little coral insect in the bed of the ocean, building ever building until it rears its mighty reef that can strand the mightiest ocean storms.
 Science had her laboratories loaded with the truth of alcohol and tobacco being a poison, but they kept it there for their own use, but when woman discovered it, she threw it to the winds that all who would might know of the doctrine. This has brought us a long way toward this hour. Think of the anti-alcohol congress which have met from time to time and been entertain