The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-07-20
WORK OF
REFORM
BUREAU.
REV. o. R. MILLER, ITS FIELD SEC
RETARY, TELLS OF MORAL VIC
TORIES WON AND WAITING.
BUREAUS OBJECT IS TO SECURE
PASSAGE OF REFORM LEGISLA-
TIoN AT WASHINGTON.
Compliments Anti,saloon League, and
With Ii is WormlS for an Inter
State Liquor Law.

Sunday morning at the Gof NJ. Z;
church Rev. o. R. Miller, field secretary
of the Reform Bureau at Washington,
ID. c., associated with Rev DIR. w. F.
Crafts, gave IN address on "AIoral Vic
tories, Won and Waiting" He spoke of
the victories already won by the Burene
and of others yet to be won.
He said that the primary object of the
Reform Bureau is to secure the passage
by congress of important and much
needed reform legislation along the line
of temperance, better Sabbath obscrv-
ance. stricter divorce laws, anti-gambling
and anti-poligamy measures, etc. Eight
bills. drawn up by the Bureau have been
passed by congress, and eight other bills
drawn by the Bureau have passed one
house of congress.
He described eight important moral
measures passed by congress and which
were drawn up by the Reform Bureau
and introduced in the house and senate
at the Bureaus request, and by it fol-
lowed up to final success. These bills
were as follows:
To stop liquor selling in New Hebrides
islands by Americans.
To close by contract the gates of the
st. Louis fair on Sundays.
To suppress liquor selling in all gov
ernment immigrant stations.
To limit divorces to one cause only
in District of Columbia.
To require twelve months residence in
the territories before one can get di-
vorce.
To increase the protection of girls un-
der 81 years in the District of Columbia
johnson anti-canteen law.
Senate resolution favoring treaty to
stop liquor selling among all uncivilized
races of the world.
The Bureau will work in the next con-
gress for several measures, especially for
bill to stop Wholesale liquor dealers
il one state shipping inliquor by ex-
press in the original packages into no.
license and prohibition territory in an
other state,
Mr.. Miller's trip through West Virginia
Mt this time is especially in the interest
of this Interstate liquor bill to stop liq-
nor dealers from other states shipping
liquors by express or freight, in the orig
inal packages. into no-lieense and PROM
bition territory where they have driven
the saloons out.
Mr.. Miller paid a high compliment to
the .Anti-Saloon League of this state,
saying that its superintendent, Mr.. Al
vord, had secured the passage in the last
legislature of one of the best. and most
stringent express liquor laws of any
state in the Union. He said the Anti
Saloon League of this state was doing
splendid work, but if it had done moth
ing else this past year than secure the
passage of that stringent express law,
that alone should entitIe it to generous
financial support by the temperance peo-
pie of West Virginia.
Since the passage of this law, liquor
men in this state cannot ship liquor INTO
any no-license town or county in the
state for sale. But liquor men in other
states can ship liquor by express or
freight in the original packages in large
quantities into prohibition towns ana
counties of this state; and it cannot be
touched until after it is delivered, and
this helps to break down prohibition IN
many places. The bill which the Reform
Bureau is pushing in cooperation with
the National Anti-Saloon League Will
remedy this evil.
This bin will not prevent any local cit
izen ordering liquor for his own use from
another state by express, but it will pre-
vent express agents turning their Of
fee into rum shop and thus breaking
down the will of the people where they
have driven the saloons out.
The Reform Bureau is trying to arouse
great popular interest in this imPor-
tant measure before congress meets this
winter. The friends Of this measure ev'
erywhere should appeal to their senators
and congressman at once, while they are
at home among their constituents, in
behalf of this bill.
Senator s. b. Elkins, of West Virginia
il chairman Of tho U. S. sennte committee
ON interstate commerce, before whom this
important bill must come. Letters IN
favor of this bill should be addressed to
him at his home Mt Ellsins, w. Va, before
congress meets this winter.
Mr.. Miller speaks at Sutton tonight
and at Weston tomorrow night.