The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-12-20
In Unity for Temperance
Christian Churches Takes Advanced Ground:

The Federal Council Churches which met at Chicago
from December took progressive and rational
with campaign
against the liquor traffic.
The report of the committee on temperance was pre-
scented by its chairman the Rev Rufus w. Miller, DID,
Philadelphia secretary of the Sundayschool Publication
Society of the Reformed church in the United States The
which had been agreed by the temperance
mittee in its declaration rang very optimistic which
chmed appeal for the unifcaton of the Christian
forces in the and growing the liquor
traffic From the hopeful of the report quote
the following paragraphs:
Note the signs of advance. The saloonkeeper today
parah. The grog-seling keeper is longer
by elders deacons Public Sentiment has changed Ali
business now demands sobrey in EMPLOYEES This is en-
railroads give million and half of sober The
cars and 50 have number Of great railroads More than
twenty million school children by the requirements of
and Reis t to he
moralzng liquor advertisement The antcanteen law has
clans protest against the reesabsment of the
teen Of the growing attitude Of hostility on the part
Despite all efforts of the brewers the United States
to its soldiers Life Insurance companies Mutual Benefit
associations leaders athletic the testimony of judges
Sentiment Not less than nine large States have
on the Nor a f by of the
Mississippi North Carolina, Tennessee West Virginia
All the other states and territories three have
local option laws with large having nocened saloons
option laws have excluded the saloon Organized labor is
taking advanced stand throughout America One the
officers OF the American Federation of Labor has we'll ad
THE saloon does not produce thing which benefit to
the human 1t nonproducer and be supported
by those who work Every and should against
the liquor traffic from start to finish speaking the
wage but it may be applied to everybody"
The International Alcoholic Congress, in which our
national government is officially represented bennaly
for profound discussion by eminent medical specialists and
statesmen Indeed the signs of multiply the
over The liquor problem is not local problem
mere NATIONAL problem It has become WORLD
PROBLEM. Sweden, Finland and Iceland have voted in
favor of the national Prohibition of the liquor traffic Switz-
erland has broken social of generations by
bidding giving liquor their children The national
commission in France has reported alcoholic liquor
degenerang the French people and large posters now
in her principal Cities containing warning against the
of alcohol In Italy the commission insanity has
warned the nation that wine traffic filling the insane
ums with Italys people. New Zealand fast voting out
her saloons Australia is making rapid progress the
suppression of the liquor traffic England as never
before and public bboards bear the governments warning
against the effect of liquor
The recommendations of the report which were finally
adopted with modification as follows:
The churches of the land be affectonately urged to
utilize to the fullest extent possible the
in the Sunday school and temperance literature the young
the cooperation of and Christian people securing
the introduction into day schools of all grades such text