The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-22
TEMPERANCE URGED ON
 SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS
Mrs. Stevens, MT. Baker and Dr. Allison Speak to Thousands of the Delegates
 in Louisville.

Louisville. Ky,. June 21.--A great temperance mass meeting at the ses- sions of the Superintendents and Ieacn- ers' Congresses this afternoon. ntteen missionary mass meetings tprousnoue the city tonight and sermons n aoo Louisville pulptts by eminent visils s ministers were the features Of tooay work of the International sunday School Association, which Is holding its twelfth triennial session in Louis vile.
 The hottest weather of the summer did not seem to abate the enthusiasm of the workers or the interest Of the general public in the program which was carried through without curtail- ment.
 The main event was the temperance rally at the armory this afternoon. The national leaders in the present light for prohibition were on hand to enlist the further interest and parti- cipation of the Sunday school workers in the campaign now in progress.
 Mrs. Stevens Speaks.
 The address of Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens of Portland, Me, National Pres ident of the Women's Christian Tenn perance Union. entitled The Two Oars of tn e Temperance Movement" was ac- corded an enthusiastic hearing by an audience that filled the main floor of q
 Mrs. Stevens said:
 Tt is fitting that the International Sunday School Association, an organi- zation of worldwide importance, should give a prominent place on It's program for the consideration of the temperance question--a question which has so much to do with the well being of humanity. physically. morally and spiritually-a question which is re- ceiving more or less attention In every civilized land.
 "Frances E. Willard, the inspired founder of the worlds W. c. T. U., gave to us the immortal motto, For God and home and every land Through the DO Everything Policy. the W. c. T. U has been working for three de- cades and more, in forty departments of work, all based. upon the great prin- ciples of total abstinence and prohi- bition-the two oars of the temperance reform. In order that the temperance craft go steadily successfully forward, both of these propelling forces are necessary. Prohibition is. inseparably and logically associated with total ab- stinence. There is far more total ab- stinence sentiment and practice today than ever before. This is apparent in religious, educational, ph hilanthropic, social and commercial circles.
 There is more prohibition. sentiment and prohibition territory than ever be- fore. It is no wonder that Maine, Kansas, North Dakota, Georgia, Okla homa, Mississippi and North Carolina have outlawed the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating liquors, and that a goodly proportion of the remaining territory has outlawed the saloon, but the wonder is that any State or any community at this high noon of Chris tian civilization should still be in the
 
 liquor trade.
 Hast November, after Georgia, Okla homa and Alabama, in quick succession, adopted State prohibition, dared to prophecy that inside of five years we would have a solid prohibition South, and with increased confidence I to- day reiterate that prophecy; then the South will have given to the North a most meaning lesson,
 T dare to predict that inside of ten years we will have national prohibition, for in ev@'y State there is prohibition agitation. The question, is 1t right to legalize the sale of that which causes so much crime. dependency, deltn- ouency. degradation, disease and death, commands the attention of the people. and 1t must be answered.
 "The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the organization which I have the honor to represent, is anti-saloon, anti-brewery and anti-distillery!
 "Fifty-seven years ago my home State of Maine declared that the marlu- fracture and sale of intoxicating liquor was wrong; and Maine, although row. ing against the stream of attacks of ali liQuordom. has furnished a glori- oug example of the righteousness and efIIciency of the prohibition law.
 'aThe spirit which inspired the women of the Crusade when they knelt on the pitiless streets, Is the same as that which upholds and supports the w. c. T. U. today. The Crusade ire will never cease to burn; the crusade spirit will never die out as long as there exists anywhere the, legalized manu- facture and sale of that which causes sons and daughters to forget their mothers and to forget The Rock oi Ages.'"
 Crusade Against Saloon.
 Rev. P. A. Baker, of Columbus ohio National Superintendent of the Anti