CHAPTER XI.
THE WOMAN'S CRUSADE.
For every one saved through the agency of inebriate asylums and reformatory homes, hundreds are lost and hundreds added yearly to the great army of drunkards.

Good and useful as such institutions are, they do not meet the desperate exigencies of the case.

Something of wider reach and quicker application is demanded.

What shall it be?
In prohibition many look for the means by which the curse of drunkenness is to be abated.

But, while we wait for a public sentiment strong enough to determine legislation, sixty thousand unhappy beings are yearly consigned to drunkards' graves.
What have temperance men accomplished in the fifty years during which they have so earnestly opposed the drinking usages of society and the traffic in alcoholic drinks?
And what have they done for the prevention and cure of drunkenness?
In limiting the use of intoxicants, in restricting the liquor traffic and in giving a right direction to public sentiment, they have done a great and good work; but their efforts to reclaim the fallen drunkard have met with sad discouragements.