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ful investigation of our Scientific Temperance Instruction Law- 

 relative to its merits. Said investigation has been going on with 

 profit, and results in most cases, for the retention of our law by 

 the several parties. 



The Illinois W. C. T. U., stands for the present law without any 

 change, but to circulate a petition against any one member of a 

 duly appointed committee is most unwise, unjust and uncalled 

 for, it is a drastic measure which certainly cannot be approved by 

 our white-ribboners. 



Therefore, as State President, I herewith urge our women not 

 to circulate said petition for it will work untold harm to our cause. 



Mary E. Kuhl, 



Chicago, May 20, 1908. President of Illinois W. C. T. U. 



Two days later appeared the following rejoinder, which only 

 too plainly verifies our worst suspicions as to the animus of those 

 who are crying for an operation to remove this "stigma" from 

 their "temperance principles." 



To I he Local Unions of Cook County: 



Chicago, May 22, 1908. 

 Dear Co-Workers: 



Upon my return home last night, I was informed that our 

 County President, Mrs. Emily Hill, had called me over the tele- 

 phone for an immediate interview. This morning I responded to 

 the emergency call before breakfast. The occasion of the call was 

 a Bulletin issued by our State President, Mrs. Kuhl, calling atten- 

 tion to the circulation of a remonstrance among Methodist peo- 

 ple. Your union has doubtless received Bulletin No. 4, so you 

 know to what I refer. As County Superintendent of the Scientific 

 Temperance Instruction department, I w T ish to call your attention 

 to the fact that this remonstrance is a Methodist document circu- 

 lated and signed by Methodist people, urging the recall of Prof. 

 Coe's name from the list of the Teacher's Committee, which is 

 urging the repeal of our state law requiring instruction in Phy- 

 siology and Hygiene, etc. 



Another item to consider is that this law is a State Law, for the 

 instruction of all the school children who are being educated at 

 the expense of the State, and any group of people has a right to 

 protest against the use of any of its representatives or institutions 



