New-York tribune., 1907-12-27
MRS. STEVENS HOPEFUL
Prohibition Sentiment Is Gaming
Ground, Saus W. {. I. L. President.

That voters and legislators coming to under
stand that prohibition is not mpracticable but that
on the contrary IL is the best thing. economically.
is what Mrs Lillian NJ y. Stevens president Of the
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
umph OF the Prohbitonists in Georgia. which state
she has recently been visiting to attend the CEN
vention of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union
The country used TO think that it could not
get along without licensing the liquor sellers, tnat
the revenue was too necessary to be dispensed with
g. ,1,s-aI1- -,oral reasons Mrs Stevens said to
a Tribune reporter at her home, near Portland
Me- the other day. But now the truth is making
itself knoEn-the truth that it costs far more 10
take care of the saloons annual crop or human
wrecks than the revenue from the liquor business
amounts to. That is what the good people ieel
more and more. and there are enough OF ,hess 10
carry the day, once they get rid OF the ioea 'ha'
the license system is an economic necessity.
The two great gains of the year Tor the WIZ
F2ihborers are the victories in Georgia and oha
borna To have great state like Oklahoma ti eL..r
the Union with prohibition clause in its consli
,Ttion with majority of its people voting tor tenn
nerance-that is certainly fine. The tempeIa,cs ,
people of Georgia had to fight Tor the
law lust enacted there, but they have IT anu anu -
struggle will help the states which are sun coi-
troIIe6 bv tire LIQUOR traffic 10 break away:
..-Ternnerance has won victory in South Iaro-
my Tbst IS the abolishment of the Gothen-
80 or f7isnensary system which failed utterly
9s A temperance measure Inc GotheLuuis tha1
vas the last hope Of the men VINO 1houshI la.y 10
,d Stand for license and temperance at one anu
tho same time. / think now that Apou. ail <,,nd
forms of license law have been uie9 Ssaouentiv n.o
-aHzrEn ing .t-x.:.,-
, IN ss clear for out-and-out prohloitloi'
81 all the Southern states are ripe Io' Pt0
hibiton- There seems
..yTl7at about the army canteen! ~ +h;,r
-, no = clamor for its restoration b' ''N ~
this will be accomplished ,- so called
asT do NOT believe the anti-canteen law, 80 80 -
iii he repeal led said Mrs Stevens g.
a-as nassed bv large majority vote anu .. GO -
most careful consideration ana oohSie'0 W."
do its work am confident o, aver
..Do Won think the hotels VIII ever oe vi o,,er
to ,,roribtion? Leading hotel propIietotio az -.
tho country assert that without pdIS iii'S ~
make bookkeeping pay ,n ;a Mrs
..t,aonla do not travel to Drink, sa'u -' s.
| @. s .,7,,,aticaIIv THE great majority VI
- 20 cav nothing of the women and chhdren a. .
~ 'denendent upon liquor drinking. Even tie
rintxjng man. unless he is far gone IN oisslta ii
prefers for his family a hotel free from llqot go
ne some of the largest and most prospeiouS1 ,1
ia,ore in this country have not attempted 10 SCH
- Tbet ia true of hotels where nave peep
i cIieorn5a and other states, and feei sure tuat
rLe m PIEDMONT and the other large ana wen
,;-1ad hotels in Georgia will succeed unoel Pfo-
tfbition and will not break the law. :,
.sTn the last few months L have ual'eleu ~
-, eta+es and have less drinking IN the
5ni,,. cars and at hotel tables In license states
tban in preyious years. have noticed TINS III
Carada also Total abstinence sentiment Is ad-
rancng everywhere- For many years Inc Nohi-
80 Christian Temperance Union. the Good lehi-
lars the Prohibition party and other organizations
ba1 been working for this end Now, commercial
ism is realizing protect its interests II must
onnose the LIQUOR traffic. And commerclallsin can
accomplish almost anything 1t Wills