The Loyal Temperance Legion (L.T.L.) was the children's branch of the

Woman's Christian Temperance Union The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far ...

(W.C.T.U.). Its slogan was "Tremble, King Alcohol, We Shall Grow Up". It published an English-language newspaper for children called ''The Young Crusader'', which was edited for some time by W.C.T.U. president

Anna Adams Gordon Anna Adams Gordon (1853–1931) was an American social reformer, songwriter, and, as national president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union when the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted, a major figure in the Temperance movement. Biography E ...

, a strong believer in the need to interest children in temperance at a very early age.

Notable people

* Suessa Baldridge Blaine (1860-1932), general secretary of the Loyal Temperance Legion * Harriet Ball Dunlap (1867-1957), State secretary of the Loyal Temperance Legion of West Washington WCTU *

(1853–1931), editor, ''The Young Crusader'' * Imogen LaChance (1853-1938), organized and superintended Senior and Junior Loyal Temperance Legion in Wisconsin * Azuma Moriya (1884–1975), head, Loyal Temperance Legion program in Japan * Elizabeth J. Smith (1842-?), editor, ''Home Guard''

References

External links

* https://books.google.com/books?id=BuzNzm-x0l8C&dq=Loyal+Temperance+Legion&pg=PA387 * https://books.google.com/books?id=EMjxAAAAMAAJ&q=Loyal+Temperance+Legion Temperance organizations in the United States Youth organizations based in the United States {{US-org-stub