The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-03-27
=" IDAHO DRY IN 1915 .
SLOGAN or CON-
VENTION

holding their annual convention ir
Boise this week. The opening day:
of the gathering was largely attended
and the leaders are confident thai
Idaho will be found in the dry col
umn next year. Speakers of ability
including DR.. Fletcher Holman, of Sa.
lem, Oregon, president of Willamette
University; w. ]. Boone, of Caldwell
president of the College of Idaho
Adna Wright Leonard, of Seattle and
H. L. Sheldon, of Portland, addressed
the convention Wednesday and
Thursday.
On Thursday a special train carry
ing hundreds of delegates from Wei
ser, Payette, Parma, Caldwell and
Nampa, reached the convention city.
DR.. Holman. of Salem, opened the
convention Wednesday evening with
a mastery address. DR.. Holman is
recognized as one of the most infu-
entail temperance advocates in the
northwest and his address Wednes-
day evening was enthusiastically re-
ceived, the speaker being interrupted
repeatedly with cheers and applause.
Touching occasionally on the moral
argument DR.. Holman rested primarily
on the economical side and submitted
startling figures, many of them taken
from government records, in support
of his contentious.
The Cost of Drunkards.
Investigations have shown" he
said, that the lives of 70 men of each
100 have been shortened four years
each by indulgence in alcoholic drink.
This means total loss of 3l6 econ
omic years, each estimated to be
worth at least $1,000. Each year there
is death list of 1000 drunkards."
"The insurance companies have
found that the total abstainer is the
best risk. For instance, in all other
occupations than the manufacture or
sale of liquor, 45So of the men reach
the age Of IS. OF those engaged in
these two occupations but 1859 reach
SIS. The number of those not engaged
in traffic in Intoxicating liquors who
reach the age of 65 is 500 as against
81 of those whose business is of this
kind"
Drinking Men Not Wanted.
DIR. Holman commented on an adj
vertisement of "Pure food whisky"
There is no such thing" he said. "lf
any scientist in any college or in any
responsible position made the state
ment that whisky is food he would
be discharged Immediately as incom-
petent. 1t has been proven beyond
doubt that the opposite IS the case;
that a single drink of whisky lowers
the efficiency Of a. man $50. This is
the reason that in the great factories
and on the railroads of the world a
drinking man is not wanted. His
efficiency has been impaired and the
employer does not get the most he
can for his money.
False Figures on Drink.
"For many years the liquor inter
ests have used figures to back their
argument that were distorted, not to
use a stronger expression. 1t has been
reported that there has been an an
nual increase in the amount of liquor
consumed in the United States. Such
is not the case In truth there has
been an annual decrease for while the
consumption has remained about the
same, there has been an increase OF
one million in population"
Hard on Kansas Saloons.
DR.. Holman drew many of his illus
trations from Kansas, which is dry
state. "You cannot get a Kansan
with a family within a mile of sa-
loon now, so there must be some
merit in it." he said. In that state,
he said, there is an expenditure of
SLAB per capita accounted to intoxi-
eating liquor and there is no doubt
that this has decreased since the pas
sage of the Webb law. THAT state
he continued, has the greatest wealth
per capita, $llS, and second to it
comes the state Of Maine, another
which has long been in the dry col
umn. Poison, such as alcohol, has
been proven to be never an enricher
of the people but its effect is a not
able decrease in economical eff
cheney"
United States All Dry.
1.-THE nation is going dry and
would not be surprised to see that
event come to pass within five years.
You here in this state have won
derfuI opportunity TO be among the
leaders in the movement. You have
the opportunity to refutet the oft re-
peated, though slanderous statement,
that the voting privilege accorded TO
women has accomplished nothing in
the advancement of morality. | ven
ture to say that the picture of wo-
man, that great temperance leader,
Frances Willard, hangs in more
homes than any except that Of the
mother Of Jesus Christ, a wonderful
example 10 spur us onward to the
goal Of a saloonless nation"
Many Short Talks.
Rev. c. L. Chalfont of the Presby-
terrain church presided and before in
trnducsuey nr Human called uDon a
number Of speakers for short talks of
welcome and response. The opening
exercises were led by Rev. Bruce j.
Gifin Of Parma. Rev. Davis Errett.
for many years pastor of the Christian
church at Salem, Ore, and a co-work-
er with DR.. Holman in the fight there
offered greetings from the Boise
churches. Mrs. w. S. Chip spoke in
behalf OF the w. c. T. u. and A. I.
Freehafer Of Council responded. S. D,
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