Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-21

Il Interstate shipments is requir ed., Is
Twill prove an aid to municipal ties N
4 enforcing prohibit ton.
Through the Associated Prohibition
II Press 1t is learned that there are now
4 in Great Britain 5, 600. oG0 total abstain
4 sers, and that the national drink bil
4 decreased nearly $4,000, Oo0. The de-
i feat OF the so-culled licensing bill by
1.-The house Of lords after it's overwheln-
4 Ling triumph In the house of commons,
y was rcckoned as a serious defeat for
4 the temperance forces OF England, but
4 this defeat has apparently spurred the
/ champions OF abstinence and sobrlety
1 to greater activity than ever. IL is q
/ question whether the house of lords did
not launch a boomerang for itself in
the summary defeat OF this recognized
| temperance measure. Its action has
! given wide publicity to the fact that
there are no less than 1877 peers and $50.
other titled persons today connected
with the liquor trade in England. as
stated in tho Prohibltionist for june
The news from the Orient is encour-f
aging Effective work against opium
and liquor is being done in China and
Japan. In Japan, which has had q
national w. c. T. u. organization since.
1885, World White Ribbon Organizer.
Miss Strout has addressed more than
10000 government students since her
recent arrival in that country. She
also secured two interviews with the
minister of education who expressed
his hearty sympathy with her work
and promised that he would use his in
fuence to secure scientific temperance
teaching in the high and normal
schools OF Tokyo.
a remarkable change in$public senti-
nient, It is said. is taking place In Ger 4
many as regards total abstinence and
the temperance movement No longer
Will the brewers be able to point to the
Fatherland as u nation satisfied with I
Its startling beer consumption, nor can
they allege that drunkenness and deg
radiation are unknown where the brew
ers grip upon society has long seemed
complete The Press Circular Of the
German Abstaining Physicians society,
in its issue for March, 1909 gives fig
ures showing that the number of hos
pital cases of alcoholism In the Ger
man empire are now five times greater
than they We're twenty years ago. and |
that the cases of delirium trenlsns have
increased three hundred per cent al |
though the population has grown only |
about SO per cent In that time. The
cases of heart disease have increased
from 1902 to s4071, about five and one
half times, while other diseases have
only tripled. Special emphasis is placed |
upon this last comparison, as the heart, |
1t is well known is one Of the organs
peculiarly liable to suffer from the use
Of alcohol. An Anti-Alcohol congress
WAS held In Berlin from April 1917.
Leaders in the law, pulpit and medical
profession, educators employers of la
Dor and working men We're, in declara,-
tons adopted by the Congress, urged
to fight alcoholism with all their might.
One Of the principal leaders OF the
congress was Professor Rubner of Ber-
lin. This ls the sixth annual meeting
Of the Congress and the attendance is
said to have Increased each year,
Similar encouraging reports come
frome Belgium, the Scandinavian coun-
tries. India and Australia Iceland has
adopted national prohibition. In Ha
wall the temperance friends have taken
the Initiative in "a movement for terri
torial prohibition, and splendid prog
ress toward complete emancipation
from the grip of the drink trade Is man
fest In New Zealand, where the no
licenses has been carried in several
districts and liquor bars have been
banished from all the railway refresh
ment rooms.
In the Canal Zone" the almost en-
Tire absence OF crime among the labor
,rs Is attributed to prohibition. There
are among those laborers 80 different
but no intoxicants ara
sold by the commission In Its hotels and
houses. The result Is per-
[ect order and health. MAI cases OF 1
leatts are said to be traced to the
srog shops at Panama and Colon.
The facts related tell only part Of
he story of victory over intenlperance.
The sentiment that has been created is
he greatest achievement. For this Is
power. When 1t exerts itself, as It is
sure to do, 1t Will be impossible for the
saloonkeeper to drive through our8citics
triumphant with politicians and busl-
ness men chained to their chariots, as
IF yore When that sentiment asserts
Itself, the saloon will have to go.
THE IIA-HoNA.