Willard, Frances E. Home Protection Manual: Containing an Argument for the Temperance Ballot for Woman, and How to Obtain it, as a Means of Home Protection; Also Constitution and Plan of Work for State and Local W.C.T. Unions . New York: 'The Independent', 1879. [format: book], [genre: essay; guidebook]. Permission: Public domain
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Write to women most interested in the subject, asking them where you can get documents setting forth plans and arguments, and also requesting them to reply by letter, which may be read to the society. Circulate these documents in your W. C. T. U. and appoint a day when the subject will be discussed. If the discussion develops a strong feeling against it, do not urge the matter; but keep it before the thoughts of the members and ask them to consider it with prayer. It will not be long before they will adopt the measure by an overwhelming majority. When this is done, do not content yourselves with a simple declaration of opinion; but incorporate the measure into your plans of work and instruct your delegates to stand by it in local, state, and national conventions.