“…we therefore formulate, and for ourselves
adopt the following pledge, asking our sisters and
brothers of a common danger and a common
hope, to make common cause with us, in working
its reasonable and precepts [principles]
into the practice of everyday life.
i hereby solemnly promise, god me, to
abstain from all distilled, fermented and malt
liquors, including wine, beer and cider, and to
employ all proper means to discourage the use of
and traffic in the same.…”
— national woman’s christian temperance union,