Frances Willard and Political Temperance
By Editor
Miss Frances Willard, it is reported, is about to play a new rôle in the temperance problem. Of course everybody knows that she has long since left Christian temperance in the background and made prominent “political temperance.” Now she says: “It is social conditions which make men drunkards, and our organizations too frequently neglect to make allowance for that fact. In my opinion we shall be obliged to become the champions of the trades unions, and work with might and main to better the industrial condition of wage earners before the vice of drunkenness can be attacked.” And the labor unions will never be helped thereby, and the W. C. T. U. will sink still lower. It once did noble work in Christian lines; but the organization is Christian no longer.