The work became so heavy a drain on time, strength and sympathy, that Mrs. Grubb called a public meeting, and with her sister, Mrs. Shields, and with others, organized a Freedmen's Aid Society.

When her sons grew to manhood, the dangers surrounding them growing out of the liquor traffic led Grubb to develop a deep interest in the struggle of the home against the saloon, gradually concentrating upon it.

She published leaflets and tracts on all the phases —economic, moral, social and evangelistic— of the temperance movement in seventeen languages, at the rate of fifty editions of 10,000 each per year.

She established a missionary department in Castle Garden, New York City, through which instructions in the duties and obligations of American citizenship were afforded to immigrants in their own languages as they landed.

[1][3] In 1898, she spoke about how during the preceding twelve months, she held over 100 meetings in Kansas, 75 of which were lectures bearing upon the subject of suffrage in various ways.

As National Superintendent of "work among foreigners" of the WCTU, the free bestowal of the ballot upon aliens and the denial of the same privilege to our American-born women received a great deal of attention in these lectures.