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Under the leadership of Jenny Beauchamp the WCTU pressured the legislature into establishing a boys' reformatory at Rusk so that juveniles would cease to be incarcerated with adult prisoners.
Helen Stoddard led a successful campaign to raise the age of consent as part of the organization's assault on prostitution and the double standard of morals and worked to have police matrons appointed in municipal jails.
Temperance women were able to secure a law requiring alcohol education in the public schools, and Stoddard helped draft the legislation that established Texas Woman's University. By , however, new women's organizations such as the YWCA and the Texas Congress of Mothers were offering more opportunities for social-welfare voluntarism and drawing women who a generation earlier might have joined the WCTU.
Although it voiced support for such reforms as compulsory education and wage and hour legislation for working women, the organization narrowed its focus. Local unions channeled their energy into demonstrations at the polls during local-option elections, and the president lobbied for constitutional prohibition. Organizational growth was incremental, and union strength was concentrated in the northern part of the state, where prohibition sentiment was strongest; attempts to establish Hispanic unions in the more southern counties met with little success.
Throughout the s the WCTU was part of the coalition of women's organizations that made up the Joint Legislative Council , but as sentiment mounted in favor of repealing prohibition the women concentrated heavily on antialcohol campaigns. By the s the WCTU, like prohibition, had lost its progressive image: temperance women devoted themselves to polling political candidates for their views on alcohol; campaigning for "drys"; and protesting cigarette advertising, gambling, bathing-beauty contests, and suggestive motion pictures.
Membership in was reported as 3, active and honorary members-virtually the same as a decade earlier. Although in later years the WCTU claimed a membership of 10,, the number of active dues-paying women was probably never more than half that number. As members aged in the s and s younger women did not come forward to replace them, and key officers served for decades in the same positions. By the s the organization was moribund, and its main activity was placing books and literature in educational institutions.
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