Frances E. Willard, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, who among other things published An Up to Date Single Tax Catechism, was quoted in the 1901-07 issue of The Arena as follows:
"The late Frances E. Willard, president of the W. C. T. U., after wide experience and mature thought, came to the conclusion that 'it is time we cease trying to make men comfortable by making them sober, and try to make them sober by making them comfortable.' Temperance reform, to be effectual, must be preceded by economic reform. Alcohol has countless sins to answer for. But alcohol is not responsible for the poverty of the sober Hindus and Turks, nor for the poverty of America's seamstresses and factory girls. . . ."
source: https://ia600503.us.archive.org/10/items/arena22conggoog/arena22conggoog.pdf, at page 50/701.
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