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pleted her education at the Northwestern

pleted her education at the Northwestern
Female College in Evanston, ILL.,. In 1889.
taught school in several middle West
towns. returned In 1865 10 be principal
OF the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in
Lima, n. Y: left that position to travel
and study in Europe. and then served
several years ne professor OF aesthetics
and dean Of the women's college in
Northwestern University.
Founded World W. c. r. Z.
In 1874 she became corresponding sec
rotary Of the w. C. T. Y. and president
In 1879. In 1882 she was made a mem
Der OF the executive committee of the
young Prohibition party. The following
year she founded the Worlds w. G. T.
u, OF which she became president In
1883. She wrote great deal on prohi-
billion and delivered many lectures. She
died In 1898. Residents OF Evanston.
on nearing the news OF the prohibition
victory yesterday. planned 10 lay a
wreath on her grave.
Other women workers were Mary
Elizabeth Lease. the Joan OF Arc OF pro-
hibition In Kansas. as she was called:
Mary Livermore and Mrs. Carrie Nation.
who In 1900 and 1901 made herself and
the cause IN Kansas nationally conspicu-
Gus by her lone hand raids on saloons
with Ratchet for a weapon.
The first temperance society In the
United States was formed at Moreau,
Saratoga county. y. Y. in April, 1903.
II had forty-three members. who bound
themselves not to drink rum, gin. whis-
Key wine or distilled spirits, except by
advice OF physician or In case OF ae-
~ Ire Il
ners. under penalty OF rs cents drink.
provided the compact should not infringe
on any religious rites. The society
lasted fourteen years. but accomplished
little.
The American Temperance Society
was founded in Boston in 1926 and the
New York State Temperance Society
In 1929. The latter within a year en-
rolled 100000 members. In 1898, MEM
bers OF Congress organized a Congress
sionsl society. Before the civil war
secret societies TO promote total sbs,i-
hence were flourishng.
Work of Sons of Temperance,
The Sore OF Temperance vas founded
IN New York city In 1872 we'll along in the
beginning OF the great national tenn
petance reaction, which attained to Its
e'Se''SSN HtiEHl ABOUT lboV. 1t mas lifc
insurance. sick and funeral benefit fea-
lures. There are members OF both sexes
and for boys of sixteen there is a cadet
branch. with life pledge. Branch
grand divisions OF the order exist In
England. Australia and New Zealand
canada Is included in the North Amer
lean division, which in 1916 had $4,000
members. 10000 OF them in she United
States. Minor branches exist In Ireland
the Bahamas. Liberia. Scotland and
Wales
The Independent Order of Good
Templars was started in New York lr
1851 and IL now world wide A later
society, non-secret but with benefit pro.
visions. is the Royal Templars OF TEN.
perance, founded In Buffalo in 1860
The National Temperance Society and
Publication House was organized in 1866
at Saratoga. Its propaganda for tota
| abstinence included national and inter.
national conferences besides the dissent.
nation of literature
The Woman's Crusade, so called, led
| In 1874 to the organization OF the W. C
t. L. But the history OF prohibition In
organized political effort begins with thu
formation In 1858 OF a party In Illinois
, a temperance party was organized that
same year In Michigan. The National
| cago the year following. the call for Its
convention coming from the Grand
Lodge OF Good Templars
Between 1880 and 1890 came the sec
! ond great wave Of prohibition agitation
| the one which spread from the middle
West Kansas, Iowa and the Dakota.
we're the early middle Western dry
states. although Iowa changed for the
| period between 1894 and 1915, enactins
the so-called mulct law. which virtual,
brought in a high license regime. tn.
| Dakotas later recons!dered. North Da
kota to return to drought In 1914 Ok
| lahoma In 1907 was next In the dry
column.
Early in the present century the pro.
| hibition tendency reached the South
| Georgia. Alabama. Mississippi and
North Carolina. West Virginia. Virginia
Arkansas and South Carolina voted dry
| between 1907 and 191,. Alabama ir
| 1911 reconsidered. Florida, with Its
| winter resorts. and Louisiana with a
large French population held out Ir
| 1914. besides Southern and middle West.
ern States, the dry list included Ari.
iona, Colorado, Oregon and Washington
| Railroads Join Movement.
The greatest impetus TO the prohib!.
| ton movement in the last five years
| before the Jones rider to the food pro-
| duction bill became law last November
| came through industry. Railroad,
stopped serving liquor on trains and
many Industrial concerns refused 10 EN-,
| ploy men who drank.
By 1915 there were only three State<
which had no prohibition liquor law o,
some kind. These States were New Jer
sey. Pennsylvania and Nevada.
| Tho Prohibition party had candidate,
| In the field In several State political cam