temperance-workers

Updated: May 2, 2025

The editor of the leading newspaper was with the temperance-workers in our fight there, and he had warned me that the liquor people threatened to "burn the building over my head" if I attempted to lecture. We were used to similar threats, so I proceeded with my preparations and held the meeting in the town skating-rink a huge, bare, wooden structure.

Elizabeth Garver Jordan - The Story of a Pioneer