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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]