The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
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minutes of the executive meetings and tn
appointment Of committees.
The reports OF the officers were given a
follows: Mrs. Henrietta L. Cammade, tn
treasurer. reported the alance in the treas
ury In October, 1906. $2.2Ss.2s. The receipt
Of the year added to this amounted to S.,
1888, and the total expenses of the yea
S,6S1.36, so that the balance to date is 81.
1922. The total membership is S.433, will
a net gain of 1874 in the membership.
In presenting her annual report Mrs
Emma Bourne, the State president, safe
in part: 1.-THE passage OF the scientific
temperance law in 1894 made that year {
memorable one for us. In our State as In
others, beneficial results have followed
Quoting from the Union Signal, the official
organ Of the organization. Mrs. Bourne
said. An Industrial awakening has
brought the almighty dollar to the side OF
the temperance reform. No railway, tele-
graph, telephone, bank or factory superin-
tendent is longer willing to intrust the
management Of costly equipment or the
protection Of hundreds of lives to brains
that are befuddled and nerves that are
shattered by indulgence in drink"
Mrs. Bourne told of what has been done
among the nations in the cause of total abb
stinence She quoted from the statistics of
Great Britain, France, Finland, Hungary,
Belgium, Prussia. Norway, Sweden, Den
mark, Australia and Eastern Countries.
The year 1907 has also been memorable
because of the prohibitory law passed by
the general Legislature and because Of the
new State of Oklahoma, by a majority of
10000, voted that prohibition should be in
its new constitution.
Things are coming our way" said Mrs.
Bourne. ''The road Is turning despite the
fact that the Liquor Dealers Protective
Bureau reported it had taken part in 1872
elections. to which 4,5S2,00O pieces of litera-
ture had been sent, followed by heart
breaking appeals for more funds to push
these attacks ON prohibition.
why such anxiety?" she asked, eff, as
they say, prohibition does not prohibit? p
Frances E. Willard years ago said: We
ave learned that If prohibition does not
always prohibit, neither does civilization
always eivilize.'"
Mrs. Bourne continued, saying:
Neither does education always educate,
nor Christianity always Christianize. We,
too, as a society nav been sending litera-
ture, pictures and organizers through the
Willard memorial fund, and have been
watching these campaigns at close range.
Other States are lining up for this prin-
ciple. What says Senator Carmack, of
Tennessee, a State which has only four
cities where liquor may be sold legally?
w have come to the parting OF the
ways with the liquor traffic." she declared.
1T refuses to be reformed; it must there
fore be destroyed. 1t has proclaimed by
its conduct that it would rather die than
obey the law. so but one course is left for
self-respecting and law abiding people.
THE saloon must CO." she went on. The
Women's Christian Temperance Union
president Of Louisiana writes thus: Our
State is in an advance movement on the
temperance question. County after county
is going dry; that we urge every union to
get to work and push, that we pray, sing,
work and shout, and take Louisiana for
God. In Texas, since 1898, 147 counties
have become dry, SO partially so, only Il
are wet. The saving in court expenses
from the decrease of crime offsets the loss
OF revenue from closed saloons.
While I was resting in the heart of the
Alieghenys in August / read the news
papers of the Southern States" said, Mrs.
Bourne further. The Tallahassee NSun,
which is the organ of tho State admins
t%ration, said with big headlines: 'whiskey
is the Curse of the World and Prohibition
the Panacea, and 1t is Bound to Come
to Florida This Sun is consistent, too,
for 1T. announced that all whiskey adj
vertiseme1ts would be dropped, those in
terested having heen potifed that their
contracts will be annulled. which means
that no material consideration will stand
In the way OF this worthy cause in
Florida
What has been the effect of prohibit
tion in Maine? Before this law was passed
1t was one of the poorest States In the
Union. Now it is prosperous; one-third
OF the entire population lave a savings
bank deposit; fewer children are in fac.
tories; more are in public schools in pro-
| naf.ffna ~ fhn 1Annloffoa tl,a. To- -
other State, and there are more school
teachers; the summer tourists at the hotels
and boarding houses last summer, who do
not depend on saloons for entertainment,
left in ;he State $4,000, 600; the Governors
Of Maine for fifty years have recognized
the benefit of this law in their annual
messages; popula ton has not decreased.
I'm prohibition Kansas the population
has increased so per cent. in twenty years.
In North Dakota it has increased rs per
cent. in the last ten years, while in Ne
braska, the near high license State, has
increased less than l per cent. How can
we prove hat license increases drunken-
ness? By New Hampshire, which has
only had a license law for four year. 1t
is the best license law and better admin
istered than in any other State, yet its
criminal drunks last year were 2,1Sl, while
in 1902. the last year it was under a pro-
hibitory law not so good as the Maine
law, and never so we'll enforced, the crimi-
nal DRINKS were 473. The same State, the
same class of people, the only difference
being a change from prohibition to license.
Why have we said SO much about prohi-
bition? Because 1t is in the air.
THE brewers admitted this at their
fourty-seventh annual convention at At
lantic City in June. This was their ut
~terance: 1t is only 2 per cent. that the
enemies of our industry have more than
had their own in the struggles of the past
year. The recent alarming growth and
intensihcation of the prohibitory spirit
calls for the gravest concern on our part.
The editor of Beverages frankly admits
that the saloons nave offended public
sentiment; that they have been without
check or regulation; that the business as
a whole is in bad repue; that 1000 saloons
in Indiana will be closed by the brewers
because they nave become so odious. He
says five years ago a united industry might
have kept back the situation. but today II
: is too late. They might as well try to
keep back the Hudson with a whisk
. broom.
'"rhe tap root Of the liquor trouble is no
. the saloon. however, but In legislation
! Hon. Finley c. Hendrickson. of Cumber.
I land, Md, made a great speech on Sep.
< TENDER 5 at Mountain Lake Park. Wha'
he said is worthy of your thought. Thu
q danger is in the attitude of the fedora
: government toward the license system, by