The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-06
STATE CONTROL OF
LIQUOR TRAFFIC !|.
RUSSIA URGES SALE OF RUM TO
INCREASE REVENUE.
Copies of Mrs. Stevens Annual Address
Were Distributed In the Los Angeles
Churches to Show the Failure Of Gov
eminent Control-south Carolina Dis
pensary. &4ts
correspondence of The Journal.

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Correspondence of The Journal.
Los Angeles, CAL, Oct. 31.-Twenty
thousand copies of the section on 'sGov-
eminent or State Control in Mrs.
Lillian M. N. Stevens annual address
before the National W. G. T. U. conven-
ton, was ordered printed for circula-
ton in the churches of Los Angeles
Sunday. Mrs. Stevens plainly pointed
out that government or state control
had been a failure as temperance
measure in Gothenburg, as there are
six times as many arrests for drunk
enness in Gothenburg in proportion to
the population, as in London Or Liver
pool. She pointed out the failure of
government control as temperance
measure in Russia. This system was
established in Russia ten years ago,
looking to the financial side of the
question as well. Finally, when war
and disaster came to that nation, 'in
necessary to increase the sales, and
hence the government. issued instruc-
tons to local authorities to do every
thing possible to encourage the people
to buy liquor, and even went SO far
as to encourage the clergy not to preach
temperance. She also reviewed the
thirteen years. history Of the South
Carolina dispensary, in which she as
serted that drunkenness and crime
have increased under it's sway and the
dispensary is in no respect better than
a common bar. In fact, it is worse,
as a buyer at the dispensary is forced
to purchase at one time enough liquor
to make a man intoxicated, and the
whole tendency Of the system in South
Carolina, as in Russia, is to increase
the sales in order that there may be
more revenue. ... .
This section of Mrs. Stevens address
seemed very apt at this time, for Los
Angeles, as there seems to be tenden-
cy here to try to foist the dispensary
system on this city. Seventyfve pull
pits in Los Angeles were supplied with
W. G. r. U. speakers Sunday. The state
president of the Minnesota W. G. T. u.
spoke in Garvanza M. f. church at II
o'clock and at the vesper service at
the Y. w. G. A. at O'Clock. Mrs.
Abbie F. Church of Northfeld, Mimi,
one of the national evangelists, also
occupied prominent pulpit.
Mrs. Irvine's School Rally.
/ Mrs. Stella B. Irvine, formerly Of ST..
Paul, now of Riverside, Cal, had charge
Iiof an immense Sunday school rally Sun
day afternoon in the First M. T. church,
where boys and girls from 125 Sunday
schools of the city gathered. Red,
white and blue pledge cards festooned
the church, each card representing a
pledged total abstaiTer in some Sunday
school. There are $4,000 of these in
the United States. Flags and flowers
also decorated the platform and Miss
Willard IS picture was surrounded with
a circle of white chrysanthemums, with
a golden crown in yellow blossoms sus-
pended above the head. DR.. W. II.
Brodboc, superintendent of the Sunday
school, and Giles Kellogg. chairman Of
the State Sunday School association,
welcomed the national W.; G.: T. u. and
Mrs. Stevens, Miss Anna A. Gordon and
Mrs. Susanna M. D. Fry made brief re-
Esponses, AS did also Mrs. Helen G.. Rice
FOE Boston, secretary Of thetL. T.. i. tfhe
ichildrenl laid tributes Of flowers before
the portrait Of Miss Willard. Mrs.
Floyd Starr, president of the L.. T.. L.
! of Michigan, gave an address to the
| young people,. ,1.-r7,-
The convention sermon was preached
by the national superintendent of evan
wood Of Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Green
wood s text was from Prov. xxx, lS,
]F'Where there is no vision, the people
| perish.'' Her splendid sermon stated
in conclusion that the w. c. r. U. was
born and has been upheld by vision;
"there is no precedent in history fo1
the crusade, which gave it BIRTH it,
sources of power were intensely spir
itual and much of the vision has beer
realized. Optimism triumphantly point
to marvellous attachments and the vision
has so enlarged that more has been &C
complished in the past five years thai
in any preceding five years. -
A large young people s rally was hell
at $3.50 pm. Sunday in 1mmanue