The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-30
Prohibitionists Organize a Society
Supplementary to the
Party.
THEY ARE NOT DISCOURAGED
Congress Will Adopt a Prohibition
Amendment Within the Next
Decade.

Prohibitionists know no frosts and are
undlsmayed by any obstacles. The title
of The Unterrifed" should be transferred
to their party, where it belongs.
The State leaders in the movement
claim that the election returns this year
were numerically equal to any that pre-
coded them, and if honest election methods
were adopted in all quarters those returns
would nearly double all previous ones.
They cite districts where there were scores
of Prohibitionist electors and only one
vote was counted.
Mrs. Henrietta E. Brown, State secre-
tary of the Woman's Christian Temper
| ance Union, which organization Is the
strongest coadjutor of the Prohibition
party, voiced the sentiments of many OF
| her coworkers by expressing the convic-
ton yesterday that prohibition would be-
| come a National measure in the next
decade. She said:
Work in the interest of prohibition is
chiefly educational, but I have observed that
though such work seems to progress slowly,
there comes point in the advancement from
success. 1t was SO with the slavery question.
Indeed, history shows that was true of all re-
form movements, and fully expect that his
of National prohibition.
While it is generally agreed that effort in the
direction of Ma tiOnal amendment will be
more effective, we by no means despair OF
the aid of popular sentiment in California. 1t
is growing. There is no question about'that.
Then there is the phylloxera to help us, you
know. The havoc il has wrought in the wine
trade Is one of our indirect aids.
Oh, no! We have not the slightest intention
of sinking; we shall keep on swimming. Like
John Adams of old we have given our hand
or, hno rf to h 10 ,0fn rs
our being very much alive might say that j.
NJ. Glass, chairman of the Prohibition State
Central Committee, completes successful
lecturing tour this week. Arrangements have
been made for tour of the State by the great
temperance advocate John g. Woolley. We
are expecting personal aid and counsel from
Miss Frances Willard within a few months.
In reply to question as to why the
sanitary district law enacted by the last
Legislature had not been taken advantage
of by the cold-water party, Mrs. Brown
said that while it was, in the main, ap-
proved in SO far as 1t applied to controlling
the sale OF liquor, fear of increased tax
alton on the part of many had made the
law imperative.
The secretary of the county branch of
the party, Thomas Harrison, has Just
issued an outline OF plan for strength
enlng the cause, which plan, according to
Mrs. Mary K. Harrison, superintendent of
l.. u.
work, contemplates the organization of a
committee, which shall be to the prohibi-
ton party what the California constitu-
tional amendment campaign committee
is to the suffragists.
The outline is as follows:
To form organization throughout the
country to be known as the National Amend
ment Club, for the purpose of creating an
amendment sentiment among the people, and
to circulate q petition to Congress asking to
have an amendment bill passed abolishing the
liquor traffic, and submit it to the vote of the
people, say III 1900.
And if said amendment be ratified by the re-
quired mum Der of States, TO then become part
OF the National Constitution.
Said petition to be signed by voters and young
men who will be voters by that time, also one
for mothers. This plan, you see, knows no
party and no one is asked to leave his party
before he can aid us in this work. All good
citizens can now join forces and strike q de-
cisive blow. The pulpit can accept this plan,
and have q Sunday, to be known as the Ma
tional Amendment day, and preach one hun
dred thousand sermons on the benefits of the
amendment, asking all voters present and all
young men who will be in said year, to sign
the petition. which should be on hand. And
could we not get three million on that day?
The w. G. T. U. and l. o. &. T. could have the 4
day and secure one million more. In fact, al.
who oppose the traffic can unite and work on
this plan.