PROPHETIC WORDS OF FRANCES E. WILLARD.
When we began the delicate, ditto ult and dangerous operation of disserting out the alcohol nerve from the body politic, we did not realise the intricacy of the undertaking, not the distances that must be traversed by the scalpel of investigation and research. One thought, sentiment and purpose animated those saintly “Praying Hands,” whose name will never die out from human history: “Brothers, we lxg of you not to drink, and not to sell!” This was the single wailing note of these moral Paganinis, playing on one string. It caught the universal ear and set the key of that mighty orchestra, organised with so much toil and hardship, in which the tender and exalted strain of the Crusade violin still soars aloft, but upborne 1 now by the d.inging cornets of science, the* deep trombones of legislation, and the* thunderous drums of ixditics and parties.
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White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 286, 19 April 1919, Page 3
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