Identifier: passingofsaloona00hamm (find matches)
Title: The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hammell, George M., 1852- ed
Subjects: Alcoholism Liquor laws
Publisher: Cincinnati, O., The Tower press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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r of pen to put finethought in balanced sentence, but she had that subtler quality of sou!which gave her the throne among her peers, and she led and ruled, as theold royaltj7 was wont to say, by the grace of God. She was willing tosay that, in all the fine humility of her perfect self-knowledge, she waswhat she was by the grace of God. It was her gift, as well as her grace. And so, her influence against the saloon told, even though she didnot destroy bars, nor enact laws. She threw the whole light of her thoughtinto the leering face of the saloon, and it fell. Men have asked, Whathas the W. C. T. U. done? But in these years of 1907 and 1908 theyno longer repeat the question, for the historians of the Great Reformwrite that, for a generation, the womanhood of the United States, underthe spell of one whom they still call their Glorified Leader, have beenpraying against the saloon. Every day, when the sunbeams fallstraight upon the meridian, they lift their souls to Him who is Sun of the
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THE WILLARD MEMORIAL,Statuary Hall, Washington, D. C. Ah, it is women who have given the costliest hostages to fortune.Into the battle of life they have sent their best beloved with fearful oddsagainst them. Oh, by the dangers they have dared, by the hours of patient watch-ing over beds where helpless children lty, by the incense of ten thousandprayers wafted from their gentle lips to heaven, I charge you give thempower to protect along lifes treacherous highway those whom they haveso loved. FRANCES ELIZABETH WILLARD. 157 sun, Light of the light, and pray that the liquor traffic may die, andthey believe that, at last, not by might of law nor by power of police, thevile traffic will cease, and men will wonder what hidden force smote it down.Even now, it is not easy to say why, in 1908, there should be so wide arevolution, or why, in spite of all the arts of demagogues there should besuch popular interest in the Liquor Question. Perhaps the noon-tideprayer counts for as much as a vote,

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