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Manitoba Temperance Alliance Report
By MRS. MARGARET I. BARDAL
Ladies:
As your representative to the Manitoba Temperance Alliance,
I am reporting on their work, and I feel I can best do so by reading
the report of our executive secretary, Rev. Wm. Potoroka.
“The activities of our group were the result of effort by team,
an alliance team, consisting of three circles of workers.
“The largest circle includes thousands of people who belong to
the ranks of temperance-minded people in Manitoba. These people
work at temperance daily, they pray for the success of the Alliance,
and they provide funds to keep us going. The second circle is made
up of the officers and members of the Board, and committees of
the Alliance. It is their responsibility to see that the business
affairs, the educational policies and programs are carried out faith-
fully and well. The third circle and smallest, is the staff of the
Alliance. These three circles form the Alliance Team.
“Behind the Alliance Team efforts and activities there is force
or power—Steam. You will see it in the following. Force of under-
standing which has got behind the mask of Alcohol fraud and also
behind the misery of man which only God, not Fraud, can solve.
Motion of fairness towards our fellowmen which addresses itself
to man in his God-given dignity and to man’s gift of free choice.
“Temperance steam is an energy of mind and heart, and spirit.
“Abraham Lincoln in 1842 spoke of a ‘temperance revolution’.
He said, ‘In it we shall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler
slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it more of want
supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged. By it no
orphans starving, no widows weeping. By it, none wounded in
feeling, none injured in interest; even the dram-maker and dran-
seller will have glided into other occupations so gradually as never
to have felt the change, and will stand ready to join all others in
the universal song of gladness. And what a noble ally this to the