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temperance question.
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75 children s lodges in Sweden in 1913. The Blue Ribbon Union of Sweden
(B. B.), which was the latest to come from England (1883) has a more religious
tendency. It had, in 1912, 1 491 local associations for seniors, and 400 for
children — "The Band of Hope". The White Ribbon was established in the
United States in 1874 and was introduced into Sweden in 1900: it had 112
local branches in Sweden in 1912. The Teetotal Alliance for the Young Students
of Sweden (S. S. U. H.) was founded in 1896 and now comprises 222 branches
at universities, high schools, secondary schools, training colleges, people’s high
schools, and so forth. Besides those just named, a number of independent
smaller temperance unions exist; e. g., The Railwaymen’s Teetotal Alliance,
The Swedish Teachers’ Temperance Association; Temperance Association for
Swedish Physicians; Swedish Officers’ T. A.; Swedish Policemen’s T. A.; with
several other associations for trades and professions; the Temperance Army:
Swedish Women’s Christian T. A.; Jönköping Län T. A.; Medelpad T. A., etc.
The seven larger temperance societies send representatives to the Convention
of Temperance Societies in Sweden, which composes the executive directorate
of the Swedish temperance movement, and which has an information office
supported by the State. The larger societies have combined also into a central
union for temperance instruction, which enjoys a State grant: by it are arranged
annually several courses of temperance instruction in various districts: it
provides speakers and lecturers, and supplies material for instruction in the
temperance question.
The original Swedish Temperance Union, founded in 1837, was re-organized
in 1902 into The Swedish Society for Temperance and popular Education; it
undertook to labour for a temperate, moral and healthy mode of life, by publishing
and distributing tracts, organizing lectures, and creating good literature of an
enlightening character. Though only numbering 50 ordinary members, it possesses
considerable funds and enjoys State-grants.
The number of members in the larger Societies of Temperance in 1895,
1900, 1905, and 1912 is to be seen from Table 80.
Seeing that the same individuals are at times members of both the junior
and senior divisions, and that the figures given relate to both, there is
considerable overlapping. It also occurs, though less often, that the same person
belongs to more than one organization, and so the number of teetotallers
comprised in the larger societies should be set a good deal lower; as far as concerns
1912 presumably between 30 000 and 40 000 lower.
In organizations other than those here mentioned there were about 20 000
members in 1912.
Several dissenting religious bodies, such as the Methodists and the Salvation
Army, require their members to abstain from intoxicants; the number, therefore,
Table 80. Membership of some larger Societies of Temperance in Sweden.
1895 1900 1905 1912
Order of Good Templars..........75 793 113 361 180 241 222 531
> » Templars..............32 200 39 724 50 346 54 955
National Order of Good Templar . 22 262 27 380 31 397 42 572
Verdandi .... — 2 732 13 099 23 803
Blue Ribbon....................71313 75 000 85 300 105 236
Young Students Alliance .... — 700 8180 9 676
White Ribbon...........—_—_-6Q( I_5 9(13
Total 201 568 | 258 897 371163 | 464 676
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