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437:(June 7 to 9 inclusive), which was attended by delegates from nearly all of the states, also from Canada, Great Britain and Japan, and from which resulted an International Woman's Temperance Union, the purpose of which is to bind the hearts and hands of women in all lands in earnest efforts for the overthrow of home's worst enemy.
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Resolved, That to this end we will combine our efforts to secure such legislation as shall require the liquor dealers in every state, except in such states as have a prohibition law in actual force, to obtain the signatures of a majority of the women over twenty-one years of age, as well as that of
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The report was accepted, copies were ordered to be published at once for distribution among the delegates, and the recommendations were referred to the
Business Committee. Important reports were presented by the Committee on Medical Commission (Wittenmyer, chair), by the standing committee on Young
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Certain practical recommendations were given by the secretary. They were: 1. Industrial and evening schools. 2. Work for young women in schools and colleges. 3. A unification of the juvenile work. 4. Union church temperance prayer meetings once a quarter to be secured through the influence of local
444:, president), an International Convention of temperance men and women immediately succeeded ours, in the same city, our delegates being welcomed to participate in all its deliberations, and several of their number furnishing essays, by special invitation."
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Resolved, That by prayer, persuasion and petition, we will seek to influence those strongholds of power, the
National Congress, state legislatures, and municipal authorities whence the rum-shop derives its safeguards and its
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Frances Willar's thought early in the work and been accepted as the motto of the
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came forward saying, "I wish it clearly understood that the speaker represents herself and not the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, for we do not propose to trail our skirts through the mire of politics."
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Willard also recorded the setting apart of special days for the W.C.T.U. at the large summer gatherings, Old Orchard Beach, Lake Bluff, Chautauqua, Thousand Island Park, and others. The fact that
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Central Methodist church, October 25-28. On the first morning, a Bible Reading was conducted by
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