![]() When we found that the publishers of this book wished our National President, Miss Frances E. all over these United States, desire to make a statement of facts. We, the undersigned, representing as we do the fifty thousand women belonging to our National W. Some of the sketches that follow were written for the Independent, The Christian Union, Our Union, The Signal, etc., and have been transferred by editorial permission. "REST COTTAGE," EVANSTON, III., March 7, 1883. Gough said, what we would not have dared to claim ourselves, that "it is doing more for the temperance cause to-day than all others combined."į. Methods of a temperance society, concerning which John B. ![]() But, with all its faults, this birds-eye view, giving some notion of about fifty leaders, among the two hundred and fifty worthy to be introduced, will have a certain value as a record of events, and will, let us hope, be useful as an exponent of the aims and But there is this consolation: the women to whom I have written for "some account of their life and works " have not, as a general rule, replied at all, and when they have done so the words "too busy toiling to tell what has been wrought" have recurred so frequently that the names "conspicuous for their absence" belong to those who will account themselves most fortunate. My table is crowded with collected notes of our work and workers, which must be reserved until some future day. Our work has grown so greatly that its would-be veracious chronicler is well nigh bewildered by the embarras de richesse, for the choice names omitted so far exceed in number those referred to that there is no satisfaction in the final result. Under these difficult conditions, the attempt to compromise has met the moderate success herein exhibited. The publisher's wish, to present some of the author's addresses and personal observations of the work, has antagonized her preference to devote these pages entirely to showing forth the deeds of her beloved coadjutors. It has been put together under difficulties, which, could they be known, would go far toward excusing its defects. This book is a collection of "Field Notes," roughly jotted down by one whose rapid transit left no choice of style or method.
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