say to her husband, father, or brother, if you vote
for any candidate for any office whatever, who is not pledged to
total abstinence and the Maine law, we shall hold you alike
guilty with the rum-seller. He who loves not humanity better
than his whig or loco partyism, is not worthy the name of man nor
the love and respect of woman. But to our Society.

We recommend that women form temperance societies in their
respective cities, towns, and villages, which shall be auxiliary
to the State Association. The work which we propose to do is a
missionary one. We therefore suggest the name "Temperance Home
Missionary Society," whose object shall be to raise funds, by
means of an admission fee and donations, to be expended in
subscribing for temperance newspapers, for gratuitous
distribution among all families, both rich and poor, who do not
furnish themselves with such reading. During the last two weeks I
have visited several villages in Genesee and Erie Counties, have
found the women ready for work, and now and then a temperance man
who had taken in the whole idea of political action.

Home Missionary Societies are formed in all of the places visited
except two, and will doubtless soon be in those. I recommend them
to take _The Lily_ and _Carson League_. _The Lily_, because it is
particularly devoted to woman's interest in temperance and
kindred reforms, and because it is their duty to sustain the only
paper in the State owned and edited by a woman. _The Carson
League_, because it presents and advocates a definite plan for
temperance political action. It is to be hoped that the State
Alliance, at its session at Rochester, the 18th of August, will
make converts not only of all the professed temperance men of
Western New York, but of all the temperance newspapers. Alliances
must be formed in every county and town of the State. An
additional clause must be appended to the pledge, "that no member
of the Society shall vote for any officer who is not an open and
avowed total abstinence man, and pledged to use his influence to
secure the enactment of the Maine law." There must be concert of
action; every man must know exactly how and for whom all other
men of the State are going to vote. Let there be combined
political action and the Maine law is ours.