Loyal Temperance Legion

The Loyal Temperance Legion also has a beautiful banner, which was first presented in 1891 to Suffolk county for having gained most in the number of Loyal Temperance Legions during the year.

Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York Georgeanna M. Gardenier

The year 1893 marks an era in Loyal Temperance Legion work, this being the year in which they began paying dues to the State Woman's Christian

Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York Georgeanna M. Gardenier

We have a W.C.T.U., also a Loyal Temperance Legion.

The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 07, July, 1888 Various

Water Temple, Juvenile Union, etc., -- and the work has been kept to the front during all these years, until now all juvenile societies connected with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union are marching under one name -- the Loyal Temperance Legion.

Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York Georgeanna M. Gardenier

In 1891 the president in her annual address referred to "that splendid child of ours, the Loyal Temperance Legion," and suggested a plan whereby it might become auxiliary to the state, thereby giving to the children a feeling of helpfulness and cooperation, and to the state an inspiration which the representatives of twenty-five thousand children would be sure to give.

Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York Georgeanna M. Gardenier

Loyal Temperance Legion; with whose vice and misery we are in a hand-to-hand conflict, and have done much to suppress; which has felt the influence of our work in hundreds of directions, and whose law-makers declare that it is good, and good only, has not yet awarded us the right.

Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York Georgeanna M. Gardenier

The children of the Loyal Temperance Legion could be relied on to sell tickets for the local W.C.T.U. The Responsive Reading on the subject of the

Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1893

Our Loyal Temperance Legion represents the most progressive method of Juvenile Work with which I am conversant; we recognise no distinction as between "masses" and "classes," and we put the organisation into the hands of the children themselves, so far as presiding and all the local arrangements go, but retain its guidance in the hands of a grown-up Superintendent, and we have a graded course of study.

Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1893

For all the resolutions passed by state, district, county and local W. C.T.U.s and by our young soldiers of the Loyal Temperance Legion, and for the numberless affectionate tokens of interest wafted to me across the wide sea by those with whom I have been so long and tenderly associated in every part of the United States and Canada, not forgetting the tender words of my sisters in all the nations where the White Ribbon has gone as a strong cord binding our hearts together, I wish to express the earnest appreciation that I cherish towards each and every one who has thus stretched out to me the right hand of fellowship in an emergency of grief and weariness.

Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1893

A basis of representation at the state convention and auxiliaryship for the Loyal Temperance Legion was also established, viz: "One delegate for every thousand members of the Loyal Temperance Legion, such delegates to be chosen from the superintendents of the Loyal Temperance Legion, and to be an adult member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York Georgeanna M. Gardenier