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MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

PRESIDENT. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. MOYLAN. PA.

131' VICE-PRESIDENT. CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH. TREASURER. JESSIE ASHLEY.
EVANSTON. ILLS. 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY

1800 PRYTANIA STREET. NEw ORLEANS. LA. LEXINGTON. KY.

ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
6 BEACON STREET. BOSTON. MASS,

2ND VICE-PRESIDENT. KATE M, GORDON. LAURA CLAY. 189 NORTH MILL STREET.
AUDITORS

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. MARY WARE DENNETT.
505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEw YORK CITY

CHAIRMAN PRESS COMMITTEE. IDA HUSTED HARPER.

RECORDING SECRETARY. ELLA S. STEWART.
AUXILIARIES _ 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY

5464 JEFFERSON AVENUE, CHICAGO. ILLS.

COLLEGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE
PRESIDENT. MISS M. CAREY THOMAS. BRYN MAWR. PA.

FRIENDS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT. MARY BENTLEY THOMAS. EDNOR. MARYLAND

TELEPHONE 4990 MURRAY HILL AFFILIATED SOCIETY
THE EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY
PRESIDENT. MRS. MACKAY. I MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS. 505 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK

January brd 1911

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Thank you ior your . ._ ajfi ior the Clippings.
I have not written you since the Suffrage Hear"
before the House of ' .“ ' want
opportunity to tell you how much ' . :ted all
to you for the Splendid way in which you
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how it could hel) having a very decided effec» upon

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OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE
PRESIDENT

MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
2 WEST 86TH STREET. NEW YORK CITY

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT

MRS. MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT. LL.D.

2 GOWER STREET. LONDON. ENGLAND

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT
MISS ANNIE FURUHJELM
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MISS MARTINA KRAMERS

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MISS ANNA LINDEMANN
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505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT
MRS. CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH
EVANSTON. ILL.
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT
MISS KATE M. GORDON
1800 PRYTANIA STREET. NEw ORLEANS, LA.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
MRS. MARY WARE DENNETT
505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY
RECORDING SECRETARY
MRS. ELLA S. STEWART
5464 JEFFERSON AVENUE. CHICAGO. ILL.
TREASURER
MISS JESSIE ASHLEY
505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEw YORK CITY
FIRST AUDITOR
MISS LAURA CLAY
LEXINGTON. KY.
SECOND AUDITOR
MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL
585 BOYLSTON STREET. BOSTON. MASS.

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585 BOYLSTON STREET

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WHITE RIBBrON

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 TIME OF PRAYER—‘Noontirle.
BADGE—~A Knot oi White Ribbon.

't METHODS—Preventive, Educational, Evangelistic, Social
at‘ld Legal.

i WATCHWORDS—Agitaht, Educate, Organize.
OBJECijl‘o unity throughout the world the work ol

women in temperance and social rclorm, and to worlc lor the

complete overthrow ol the alcohol and the opium trades.

Why weWeer the ‘White Ribbon.

ANNA A. GORDON

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As members oi the Womans Christian Temperance

Union we love and wear the white ribbon bow

it is the beautiiul badge oi our organization, heaven

born. to promote a holy cause. _
it is a blessed bond oi fellowship among our members .
it is a privilege oi which we are proud.
it is a plea ior purity oi liie.
it is a pledge oi total abstinence.
it preaches the prohibition oi the liquor traliic.
it proclaims the Gospel of Peace.

it is a prayer tor home protection.

//lt predicts a gate path ior children's teet. //

it is an emblem 0i patriotism.

it is a protest against the drink habit and the liquor
traiiic.

It is a promise 0t hope to the tempted and help to
the suiiering.

it prophecies the coming oi Christ‘s Kingdom in
all hearts, all homes and all governments.

Let us wear the white ribbon and lollow its gleam.

 

 THE WORLD‘S .
WOMAN‘S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
FOUNDER. FRANCES E. WILLARD

GENERAL OFFICERS

President. The Countess of Cariisie. Castle Howard, York. England
Vice—President. Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens. Portland. Maine. US. A.

HONORARY SECRETARIES

Miss Agnes E. Slack. Ripley, Derbyshire, England
Miss Anna A. Gordon. Evanston, titinois, U. S. A.

HONORARY TREASURER

NIKE. Mary E Sanderson, Danvilie. Quebec. Canada

WORLD'S WHITE RIBBON MISSIONARIES

Mrs. J, K. Barney. U. S. A,

Mrs. Addie Northam Fields, U. S. A.
Miss Oiatia Johannsdottir. Iceland

Mrs. Harrison Lee Cowic, New Zealand

Miss Flora E. Strout. U. S. A.
Miss Ruth F. Davis. U. S. A.
Miss Etnin G. Gowen. U. S. 5..
Miss Lociihead. Scotland

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(PARLOR MEETINGS.)
(NO. 241.)

Why I am a White=Ribboner.

BY MARGARET B. PLATT.

//Because I believe that the white-ribbon army, as an
organization, was called of God to lead the nation and
the w0rld over the Jordan of intemperauce, impurity,
injustice and strifefiinto the promised land of temper-
ance, purity, equality and peace. God has always in
reserve some latent power, some hidden factor, which
when the great exigencies arrive that demand its use
has always been forthcoming. XVhen the women of
America started forth upon their crusade against the
rum power, the time had arrived when existing forces
seemed inadequate and powerless to cope with existing
evils; hence the latent power of women must be dis-
played, the unused factor must be brought forth from
its retirement, therefore God called into existence the
white-ribbon army, servants of a gracious Master, hand-
maidens of our blessed Lord, daughters of the King of
Kings, and called by Him to a special service. I count
it as a blessed privilege and among the greatest of earthly
l'onors to be numbered in their ranks.

at I believe that strong drink anu narcotics and
their accompanying evils are the bane of civilization, the
greatest and most implacable foes of the home, the
church, the state, debasing to fatherhood. degrading to
motherhood, debauching to childhood and destructive
to the state. White-ribboners set their faces and their
wills, like flints, against these evils. We are “captive
unto conscience” and God’s word. We find therein no
license that we may compromise with evil for a price.
It is simply “thou shalt not,” “ thou shalt not.” “ tlzou
Malt not.” “ Touch not, taste not, handle not.” “ For

 

 

 

 

 ‘4 ka I Am a Mite—Ribbon”.

God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto
holiness.” Therefore, taking His word as our guide and
our foundation, we stand uncompromisingly committed
to the utter abolition of the great evils with which man
amicts himself, building sure and fast our faith and
labors upon the great foundation stone laid centuries ago.

“ And though we weary by the way

And hearts break in the furrow,
We sow the golden grain to-day,

The harvest comes to—morrow.”

4 Because in no other organization have I found such
e nite unity of purpose, such steadfast, unflinching ad-
herence to principle for principle’s sake, such integrity
of purpose. such abhorrence of expediency, such steady
persistence in the right because it is rig/1t,.such an all-
pervading charitableness, ”in love perferring one an-
other,” such “sweet reasonableness” of spirit, such
willing measure of self-sacrifice, such unyielding devo-
tion to the common cause and resigning of personal
interests, such a mighty compelling love for souls which
begetsa hatred as relentless as death for the things which
would destroy the soul, and compels to action for the
destruction of these things, and, withal, that blessed
comradeship of kindred spirits, that free masonry of
women by which a group of white—ribboners, thcu h
strangers, bound by the common bond expressed in t 6
little bow of ribbon white, may meet and hold sweet con-
verse, as would friends of years gone by long parted.
Surely it may be said of white-ribboners that

Bound by a love which is born above,
They rejoice in each other’s joy ;

Should a woe one befall, ’tis the woe of all :
This is love without alloy.

Because I am a wife and home-keeper, and deem it my
wifely duty to gain for myself that I may give to other?

Wk} 1 Am ,a White-Ribbon”. ,

all that inspiration to high and holy living which comes
from the teachings and comradeship of those who for
themselves strive to work out in their lives unto its best
solution, the great problem of consistent Christian living
and the best home making ; who strive to view the home
in its relation to God, to church, to state—not merely as
a place in which to be housed, and fed, and physically
rested. I deem it my wifely duty to develop to their full
extent my best and highest capabilities. Having given
myself unto another I owe it as a duty to that other not
to retrograde or stand still in intellectual, moral or
spiritual growth, but to press ever upward, giving of all
that is my best and noblest, all that is most valuable
within me to the upbuilding of that other one’s best
eternal interests. Else will time show that I have not
lived “for better” but “for worse” ; and believing that
no other organization offers such incentives to the devel-
opment of all that is best in man or woman, I am a
white-ribboner.

I brand as false and malicious the infamous assertion
that W. C. T. U. women neglect their homes. I know
of no other class more conscientiously devoted to all
that goes to make a home in the truest and best sense of
the term than the white-ribboners. From the hour they
don their bow of white they are educated to live for God
and home. Dull scholars are they who cannot learn in
such a school.

There is many a house spotlessly clean, immaculate
in furnishings, almost an Eden in appearance. presided
over by one who ought to make it a home indeed ; but
it is not a home in the true sense of the term. Such are
merely places where people stop and which they call
home, because it is the fashion to do so; in all the es-
sentials which go to make a home such as God intended
man should have, they are as barren as Sahara 15 of grass
and running waters. These are not white~ribbou homes.

I am a white-ribboner because I am a mother. As a

 

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mother, who, for the sake of her own dear boy and gin,
loves every mother’s children, I could not refuse my
membership to an organization which makes the pro-
tection of the children its battle cry. Oh, mothers, how
can you refuse your membership to a society, which,
under the blessing of God, is doing so much to make
clean and pure and safe the pathway of life for the “ mil-
ilon feet a. _oming ”?

How can you refuse support to an organization, which,
by preventive and educational measures, is striving to
remove or render harmless the pitfalls so thickly spread
for tripping the unwary feet? Sisters, the onward
march of the white—ribbon army means childhood pro-
tected, womanhood emancipated manhood purified
and the whole race ennobled. Will you stand in the
way of such a glorious consummation??? No! No! But
casting aside all ancient prejudice and unworthy fears
fall "1 with the moving columns, and while life shall
last, with your heart and life attuned to God’s great
purpose, march with a free, glad step to the music of the
reformation ofthe world. Sister, “ if your heart is as onr
hearts, give us your hand,” give us your name, your
prayers and your labors, for no matter who you are or
what your station in life may be, you cannot afford to
remain out of the white-ribbon army.

" At the altar of false Baal will we never how the knee,

From the sway of his base minions we have vowed we
will be free ;

We will ne’er give up the conflict ’till shall ring from
sea to sea——

God’s cause has won the day ! ”

Washington, D. C.

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