History of the Woman's Temperance Crusade

Ours is a famous country for protection. There is the tariff to protect industry, while the patent laws are a safeguard to invention. There are the land grants for railroads, su...

We are a nation of God’s own right-hand planting. The Lord has given us a goodly heritage--a land literally flowing with milk and honey. It is estimated that our grain fields ar...

On the evening of the 23d December, 1873, there might have been seen in the streets of Hillsboro’, Ohio, persons singly or in groups wending their way to Music Hall, where a lec...

The noble work of the women of southern Ohio had touched every Christian heart in Cleveland. On the 10th of March, 1874, a meeting was called under the auspices of the Women’s C...

On the 20th of January, 1874, a number of earnest, devoted women first made their appearance on our public square, to prosecute the glorious work of the Crusade. It is true, fai...

the traffic, and finally presented them, and they were duly signed, although it took much persuading to get it done. In one instance, the owner of the property that was rented f...

Early in March, 1874, it was announced that the city council had determined to repeal the law requiring saloon-keepers to close their doors on the Sabbath day. Petitions against...

I visited the State at that time, and aided in the work. Mass-meetings were being held, the women were deeply stirred, and Temperance was the theme of conversation in every circle.

The next meeting was held in the United Presbyterian Church. The large edifice was densely packed. The principal address was made by John B. Gough. In closing, he wished the wom...

The work in New York, which began in the beautiful village of Fredonia, has extended to every part of that great State. Every city, and almost every hamlet, has been reached by...

In the spring of 1875 I visited Montpelier, the capital of the State. At that time the jail was empty, there was no almshouse, and I could hear of but one poor family who needed...

The temperance reform of the present decade, undertaken by the women of the West, quickly awakened a kindred spirit in the minds of the women in the East; manifesting itself in...

This volume, which was prepared for the Centennial, and is to go into the State Historical Society, has been kindly sent that I may gather the most important facts connected wit...

By the persistent aid of the women of our societies in some localities, the voters have been able to elect non-license boards, and there is a growing sentiment throughout the St...

This law provided that on the call of a certain number of voters a special election should be held and a vote of the town be taken, for, or against license. At several points si...

Victory after victory was achieved, until the liquor oligarchy was driven from the open field into its strong defences. And then the women organized under the name of the Woman’...

From this little beginning, a blessed tidal wave of influence has swept around the world, and Temperance organizations may now be found in every civilized and semi-civilized cou...