The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-31

NOoo
Makes a Number OF Important
TecOmmendatiOns-Urges Aid of
Congress to Keep Liquor From
Being Shipped Into Dry States
Prohibition of Polygamy.
(By the Associated Press.)
Milwaukee, Wis, Oct. 2S.-Urgent
recommendations that the National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
cooperate with other woman's organ
izations for laws for national prohibit
tiCn were made by Lillian NJ. ~. Ste
vens, national president, at the thirty
seventh annual convention here today.
Other recommendations by Miss
Stevens We're:
That we continue with renewed
energy to appeal to Congress for a
law hat will furnish provision for
the protection Of prohibition territory
from the notification Of it's laws
through interstate shipment of liquor.
That we ask for legislation to pre-
vent the use of the United States mails
for the purpose Of advertising alco-
holic beverages.
That we continue to oppose efforts
for the restoration Of the sale of
liquor in the army can1een or in any
place from which it has been ban
ished.
That we work for a law that will
forbid issuing tax receipts for liquor
sold within five miles of any army
post or naval station.
That we use our utmost influence
to secure laws for the suppression
Of the white lay traffic.
That we continue our efforts to Sc
cure an amendment to the United
States Constitution forever prohibit
ing polygamy.
The speech of the president was a
review Of all the accomplishments
during the last year. After command
ing the German emperor for his tenn
perance address to the naval cadets,
praising Professor Wiley for his pure
food campaign and concerning Secre-
tary Wilson for addressing the Inter
national Brewers, the speaker told in
detail the fight by the union to re
tain the prohibitory law in Maine.
From the beginning" she said,
I'VE realized hat one of the chief
dangers lay in the fact that the peo-
pie of Maine did not know the dan
gers of the licensed saloon. They
had no conception Of what a saloon
really is and they underestimate the
power Of the liquor forces in the
land. The success of prohibition IN
Maine had caused many people to
fall into a state of indifference with
little realization of the benefits they
were enjoying.
Il trust this convention will en-
dorse the proposition contained IN
the proclamation or September ~
- JDn ISno Nrn-
vision-National Constitutional Pro-
hibition.
Upon the converting of Congress,
Congressman HObSOn will introduce q
bill for submitting an mendmen Tor
national constitutional prohibition ana
will give to the ms nearly
active support. l trust this measure
will receive the cooperation or the
Men and Religion Forward MoVement
and that hey will proclaim natlonai
prohibition a fundamental remedy Tor
the political, industrial and social I'M
rest of the DAY.
.There has been a report af1oat that
the WOman's Christian Temperance
Union has changed its attitude In re-
gard to the ~anti-canteen law ana d
letter to this effect has been publlsn-
ed, purporting to come from a W..
T. u. roman 1t can be said truth
fully that this report is false. me
W. c.. T. U. will oppose any ana all
efforts for the repeal Of the law.
I'm common with the great ma
jority Of thoughtful people interested
in the pure food movement, we are
nrcb pratifed that DR.. Wiley, the
head of the Bureau Of Chemistry, mas
received the Presidents Official ex--
oneration. 1t is a coincidence 1nat
while expressing satisfaction at me
retention Of DR.. Wiley. we are aiso
expressing most emDhatically our dls-
satisfaction that Secretary Wilson re-
mains a member Of the United States
Cabinet. On first announcement II
seemed almost u~nbelleVeable that
Secretary Wilson had consented 10 ACT
as honorary president OF the inter
national oneres Of Brewers in chi
cago.
ut is impossible to disguise the
fact that the object of this