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1 Woman's influence in the cause of temperance has done an incalculable amount of good work in the way of benishing the social glass, reclaiming individual inebriates, lifting the tone of public sentiment and in manifold other ways.
It has continually exerted its influence in the schools.
The scientific temperance instruction prescribed by law would have been utterly neglected in many instances had it not been for vigilent oversight on the part of the women's
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2 they did not at the beginning, that they can do little toward removing that greatest foe to civilized society, the liquor saloon, without the ballot [LAST THREE WORDS UNDERLINED]
The older memebers in this audience will call to mind that when this temperance organization was inaugurated in Worcester, 1874, so great was the fear that progress in the temperance cause might be retarded by being associated in the public mind with the sufferage movement, that measures then adopted to prevent this identification [LAST WORD UNDERLINED]
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3 amounted to antagonism [LAST WORD UNDERLINED]
Younger members may inquire what change of base casued the two societies to be as they seem now [UNDERLINED] so closley affiliatedmoved [UNDERLINED] apparently in many directions by one [UNDERLINED] influence
As one [UNDERLINED] they come together to address legislative bodies as one [UNDERLINED] they unite in petitions and memorials-- as one [UNDERLINED] they act in measure to promote social purity and kindred moral reforms.
[THE? ] [CANQE] is evidently owing to growth [UNDERLINED]
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4 evolution [UNDERLINED]- coming out of a limited range of ideas into a broader arena of thought--leaving behind all criteria that fail to harmonize with reason and truth.
Francis E. Willard, who was not at first in favor of fraternizing with the woman suffrage party, in the use of the franchise, learned [UNDERLINED] by bitter experience by successive disappointments in [WORD SCRATCHED OUT] plans[UNDERLINED], the necessity [UNDERLINED] of this measure.
She was led to say to her sister--"In order to fight the woman's battle for
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5 temperance we must seek the ballot (UNDERLINED - we must go inot the campaign along with our veteran sisters: but we must do this as White (UNDERLINED) ribbon (UNDERLINED) women (UNDERLINED) witha a sole view to protect Home from its deadliest foe (UNDERLINED) the liquor (UNDERLINED) traffic (UNDERLINED)
From her early girlhood, in the crystal clear mind of Francis Willard it was superfluous (UNDERLINED) to argue (UNDERLINED) that if (UNDERLINED) it was wrong for our forefathers to submit to British rule it was equally (UNDERLINED) wrong for woman to submit to man's (UNDERLINED) rule.
