Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-19
TELLS Of WAR ON
LIQUOR TRAFFIC
SAYS NATIONAL TEMPERANCE
SOCIETY IS ACTIVE
Field Secretary Describes Work of Re-
form Forces at Washington
and Points to Results
Accomplished

Yesterday morning at the University
NJ E. church Rev. o. r. Miller OF
Washington, D. c., field secretary and
legislative superintendent of the Ma
tional Temperance society, gave an adj
dress on Good Tidings from the Ma
tional Capital" in which he described
the general work of his society in edu-
eating the public sentiment Of the
country on the temperance question,
and also told of the efforts of his So
ciety and the other reform forces at
Washington to secure the passage Of
good laws along all lines of moral
forms. He spoke in part as follows
THE National Temperance society
was organized in 1866 by some Of the
foremost men of the country. Hon.
William C. Dodge, the famous Chris
tian merchant and philanthropist of
New York, was its first president, and
so continued for eighteen years, until
his death. His successors have been
Rev. DR.. Mark Hopkins, Rev. DR.. T..
L. Cayler, Gen. o. O. Howard, Joshua
L. Bailey and Rev. DR.. d. Stuart
Dodge, who is now president.
THE primary object Of the society
was to create and circulate q sound
Temperance literature which would pro-
mote the cause of total abstinence and
concentrate the Chris tian sentiment of
the nation against the drink habit and
the drink traffic, and our society has
ever pressed steadily along these lines
and has helped to make liquor drink
ing unpopular and the saloon dlsrep-
utable
'Our society is nOn-sectarian and
partisan, having among its officers
and managers representatives Of vari-
Gus political parties and of all the great
religious denominations.
For forty years our society has been
furnishing inspiration and ammunition
for every organization and all who
have been battling against the drink
evil 1t has provided wholesome books
for the library, papers for the family
circle, pamphlets for workers and
tracts for the masses. In doing this 1t
has prepared and issued at great ex-
pense over 22O0 different publications
and printed and circulated over one
billion pages Of temperance literature,
sending them out like leaves for the
healing Of the nation" and i'm this
and its home Missionary work the So
clety has distributed nearly $2,OOO,OOO.
Literature to All States
1.-THE literature of our society has
gone to every state in the Union. We
have sent 1t to the lumber camps and
mining camps, to the soldiers of the
army and the ships of the navy, and
to the colored people of the south. At
different times we have sent temper
ance missionaries to the southern
states who have given their whole time
TO educating the eolored people on the
temperance question and organizing
temperance societies among them.
Appeals for our literature have
come from foreign missionaries in all
parts OF the world and vast quantities
of temperance leaflets have been sent
out free In response to these requests
1T was also the National Temper
ance society that started the move
ment for quarterly Sunday school
Temperance lessons, Temperance teach
Ing In public schools. stricter temper
ance qualifications for all civil service
candidates, the appointment by the
house OF representatives In 1879 of a
regular committee on alcoholic liquors,
which has been re-appointed by each
congress since, the twentieth century
worldwide pledge signing crusade. in
which our society sent out free over
100000 pledges and 100000 pages of
temperance literature, IN response to
requests from Temperance workers ali
over the world.
our society has also had large