The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-05
PROHIBITION ISSUE
WORLDS ALLIED MOVEMENT
AGAINST LIQUOR TRAFFIC
A TEMPERANCE SURVEY
the Crimes on Earth Do Not Des-
troy So Many of the Human Race,
nor Alternate So Much Property as
Drunkeness.-Lord Bacon.


Drunkeness.-Lor Bacon.
AS the leaders and veteran warriors
of the allied world movements against
alcoholism and the liquor traffic are gath
ering in London from every corner OF
the earth, to attend the first information
al convention of the proposed Worlds |
Prohibition Confederation, and the
Twelfth International Congress Against
Alcoholism, it seems apropos to take a
rapid glimpse at some of the salient con-
ditions and evidence of progress OF the
great reform around the globe In each
of the following countries earnest et-
forts for the overthrow of the drink
traffic are being made: Antart1c Region,
Australia, Argentine, Austria, Belgium,
Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Eng
land, Finland, France, Germany, Ha-
waii Holland, Iceland, India, Ireland,
Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand,
Norway, Panama, Poland, Scotland,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Transvaal,
West Africa, United States.
Particularly has the Prohibition issue
become conspicuous in the United
States, Canada, New Zealand, Austria
| liza, England, Norway, Sweden, Den
mark, and in Finland and Iceland, the
two latter countries having recently a
dopted national prohibition, although in
the former case it was vetoed by the
Gar.
After more than three hundred years,
1.-THE verdict Of Lord Bacon that all the
crimes on earth do not destroy so many
Of the human race nor ALLEVIATE so mucI
1 property as drunkenness is becoming
the slogan of the human race. while
millions OF intelligent, earnest-hearted
linen and women around the world to-
day agree with the declaration of Right
Honorable Winston Churchill, M. P,
when he said in his notable Hyde Park
speech, July IS, 1908: Every poral
and social cause, the prosperity of every
trade, is evolved in the victory OF the
temperance movement"
The supreme confidence of the temp
erance cause is we'll epitomized by Dr.
; Willard Parker when he said: when
. men know what alcohol is and what il
does, they will put it out of existence.
United States-Today there are nlnt
whole states which have outlawed tht
liquor traffic from their respective Dor.
ders, with total population of I6,3oI
900, and total area of 477,45o square
, miles, the last six of which states have
been added within the'last three years
In addition to these nine Prohibition
states, there are today 375 cities under
lprohibitory law, with population
ranging from 5000 UP to I75,ooo each
: while two-thirds of all the rural o
lcountry districts of the the remaining
states have excluded the saloon unde
local prohibition privilege.
The nine Prohibition states are Maine
Kansas, North Dakota, Oklahoma
Georgia, Alabama. Mississippi, Mort
Carolina and Tennessee.
Great Britian.-The defeat of the SO
Icalled Licensing Bill by the House o
Lords after its Overwhelming trump
in the House of Commons, was reck
= oned as serious defeat for the unite
temperance forces of England, but thi
defeat has apparently spurred the cham
pions of abstinence and sobriety t
greater activity than ever. It is ques
8 ton whether the House of Lords di
not launch a boomerang for itself j
% the summary defeat of this recognize
4 temperance measure, but its action ha
3 doubtless given wide publicity to tf
y fact that there are no less than If
= Ipeers and $50 other titled persons tc
II day connected with the liquor trade
y England, as stated in the Prohibition
ist for June.
The United Kingdom Railway Tenn
r. erance Union now numbers over 5o,oC
- railroad employees in its nembershi
large proportion of whom are pledge
to total abstinence. Thirty years az
. the Free Church Union of Great Britia
AZ numbered only 700 abstainers among
% E2,56o ministers Today there are 20,
abstainers out of total of 2,o63,
seven-eights of the whole, notes t
: Interior. July |.
o. The national drink bill during the pa
81 year also presents an encouraging d
IS crease, which is estimated by DR.. Da'
so son Burns in the London Times as
81 actual shrinkage of nearly $3o,ooo,oc
90 although the cost Of liquor during t
81 twelve months in 1908 is given by tt
- authority as $783,Soo835.
X India.-uThe revenue derived by t