The Temperance Cause In Great Britain

The homes for friendless girls in London are well established, and the homes for inebriate women, so sadly needed, are well started, well patronized and are already a success. We use nothing but kind words to reclaim the unfortunate women with whom we come in contact, and that has proved to be the best way. 

LOCKING A WOMAN UP IN PRISON IS NOT THE WAY TO REFORM HER.

When a woman enters our home, she is given light work to do, and everything around her is arranged so that nothing of her old life will be present in her habit. A LITTLE PEACE AND COMFORT ARE WHAT MOST OF THEM WANT, and there are thousands of women in England today that are good mothers because of the union’s work. 

Another factor contributing to the advance made in the cause of temperance in England is the conviction on the part of the general public that there is too much drinking throughout Great Britain. 

THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES - THE WORKING CLASS, THE TRADESFOLK AND THE BETTER MIDDLE CLASS - ARE ALL BEGINNING TO SEE THAT DRUNKENNESS IN ONE OF THE CURSES OF CIVILIZATION AND THAT TEMPERANCE IS ITS ONLY CURE. 

As to the upper classes, the nobility, there cause has never been very popular there, but I really think that there are a better understanding a beginning of sympathy among the upper classes

BUT IN ENGLAND WE HAVE CENTURIES AND CENTURIES OF CUSTOM BACK OF US, AND IT IS HARD TO BREAK THROUGH AND SEE THAT THERE IS LIGHT ON THE OTHER SIDE.