An 1893 address to the World’s Woman’s Temperance Union by Frances Willard, president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

In this speech delivered at the second biennial convention of the World’s Woman’s Temperance Union and the twentieth annual convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, WCTU president Frances Willard describes the movement’s progress. Willard describes women’s roles in the Temperance Movement, the intersection of temperance with other social movements, and refers to the white ribbon, which was the badge of the WCTU.