The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-14
WORK OF THE ". C. T. U.
ITS EFFORTS TO CONQUER DRINK
 AND OTHER EVILS.

esting Story of the Progress That is
 Being Made by the Union All Over
 the COuntry-WOrl1 in Indian Terri
 tory and Oklahoma.
 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union has undertaken to correct the evils of the drink habit and to destroy the traffic. if possible. It is a stupendous undertaking. But then the faith of woman is prorerbiai and is abiding. She is not discouraged by difficulties nor is she confined to the immediate years for the realization of her pur- poses. What she cannot prohibit entire ly alone she will take years to correct. But the work is moving forward on both lines-the prohibitive and the cor rective. The union has its ''watchWo- mem at every capitol where laws are likely to be either made or unmade. The lynx eyes of women are scanning the slums, the schools, the railroads, the factories-indeed every department of life wherein there may be anything that threatens the welfare of man, Wo- man or child They are not only care full to find the cases of wronged and weakened humanity. but they do not rest until they have tabulated the causes leading thereto. The union has collected one of the largest, most ac- curate and most valuable libraries upon social conditions in the world, which is consulted by experts in all lines of social study The following quoted from the Union Signal is but a type of the vast amount Of information they are gathering from a thousand sources.
 "Alcohol In Relation to the Inmates of Dunning" was the subject of an ad- dress. recently delivered by Dr. Wilhite, superintendent of the Cunning (Ill) asylum, before the Woman's club of the Arrnitage Avenue Settlement, Chi cago.
 pr. Wilhite said alcohol was directly or indirectly responsible for more of the poverty and insanity that is repre- scented in Dunning than any other one agency
 Of the one thousand insane patients, taking them in the order in which they came to the asylum, six hundred men and four hundred women, alcohol was the cause of insanity in the cases of ten and one-half per cent. of the men and five per cent. of the women.
 Of one thousand pauper cases, eight hundred men and two hundred women, ninety-tive per cent of the men and fifty-nine of the women have an "alco- holic history" and forty-four per cent. and twenty-two per cent. of the men and women, respectively, of this class drink to excess.
 Of one thousand tuberculosis pa tients, eight hundred men and two hundred women, ninety-four per cent. and twenty-three per cent, respective ly, have an alcoholic history" thirty eight per cent of the men and six per cent of the women drink to excess, ufftxssix per cent. of the men and sev- enteen per cent. of the women drink moderately.
 Most people are aware that the pas sage of the anti-canteen bill was se- cured largely through the influence of the Women's Christian Temperance union, and that the influence of the un- ion will be potent in keeping 1t on the statutes A mass of evidence is being put before congress to refute the spe- cious pleas offered to effect its repeal, by interested parties. It has been clearly shown that the liquor interests are behind every effort for the restora- ton of the canteen. But very few if any of the officers would be in favor of the lions share of the profits of the canteen did not come to them. It has been fully shown also that if the off cers would do their duty toward those who go outside the posts to get drink, the matter would be speedily settled. If the four mile law were enforced, in the interest of sober, self-respecting soldiery, the question of discipline would be small one.
 The following clipping from the Sig nal shows some of the sophistry of those desiring the restoration of the saloon to the army, and at the same time it is a revelation of the gaining strength of the temperance cause:
 Notwithstanding the many predic- fions to the contrary, congress has passed the sundry civil bill with an amendment which provides for the withholding of the federal appropria- tions from national soldiers homes which sell intoxicants in the canteen. Comment on this action varies accord ing to the source. Says 8 Washington correspondent:
 The soldiers home near this city has no intoxicating liquor within nor with out, none within one mile of it's beau tiful grounds. Here the old soldiers are more contented and more sober than at any of the homes where beer is allowed. This fact was fully cited in speeches on the floor (during discus sion on the amendment). Every man from Maine voted against the beer. From Kansas ten men voted the same, only one (not voting) being doubtful. Nearly every man from Kentucky and Tennessee is for the prohibition.
 "An archbishop was quoted recently as having declared himself "unquali- fiedly in favor of the re-establishment of the canteen in military posts and national soldiers homes" In editorial comment on this utterance, the Dan- vile (Ill) Banner says:
 If he (the archbishop had been here in Danville few weeks ago when the old veterans at the soldiers home re- ceived their pension money, he might have different tale to tell. Notwith- standing the canteen in the home, one hundred and thirteen members of the home were locked up in our city jail for drunkennes, besides one murder and several sudden deaths following immediately after the quarterly de-