sville in 1882 and at Detroit in 1883, pledging our influence to
that party, by whatever name called, which shall furnish us the best
embodiment of prohibition principles, and will most surely protect our
homes. And as we now know which national party gives as the desired
embodiment of the principles for which our ten years' labor has been
expended, we will continue to lend our influence to the national
political organization which declares in its platform for national
prohibition and home protection. In this, as in all progressive effort,
we will endeavor to meet argument with argument, misjudgment with
patience, denunciation with kindness, and all difficulties and dangers
with prayer.

Mrs. Burt adds:

And distasteful though the word "politics" may be to many in connection
with our work, we can none of us ignore the fact that the strength of
the saloon system, which is an open menace to our homes, is vested in
political power....

Political action with regard to woman's temperance work may be decried,
our influence as an organization may be withheld, but the fact will
remain that the party which boldly declares for the prohibition of the
liquor traffic--the men who, standing solemnly before God, say, "My
voice shall be given and my vote shall be cast against the legislation
of this iniquity,"--deserves the sympathy, prayers, and influence of all
women, and will receive the blessing of God.

During the years that have followed these eventful ones we have always
come up to the standard, and have given no uncertain sound on this
question, and in closing this chapter we cannot do better than to quote
again from Mrs. Burt's address of 1886:

And in the years to come I believe it will be a fact over which the
union will rejoice, that when the battle waged the fiercest, when
shot and shell rained the thickest, the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of the state, true to the genius of its organization, stepped
boldly forth and extended sympathy and influence to our brothers
who were struggling so bravely for the right, saying, "Here I
stand--I can do no other; so help me God."

[Illustration: ELLEN L. TENNEY.]

MRS. ELLEN LEGRO TENNEY.

(TREASURER)

Mrs. Tenney was born in New Hampshire. Early in life she manifested
decided literary and musical tastes--in childhood preferring study to
play, and books to dolls. Mathema