Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-13
PROHIBITION nation WITHIN "
SEVEN YEARS, Is HER5ELIEF
Head of the W. c. T. D. Gives the Reasons for HePredcton
Mine States Have Already Adopted It and a Enjoying
Increased Prosperity Because oft, Mrs. Steye Says

BY MRS. LILLIAN M. NJ. STEVENS.
president Of the National Womans
Christian temperance Union, in
the New York World
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union has always believed in national
prohibition. On the eveing Of Sept
10. before the closing of the Maine
campaign of 1911, the greatest proht
bition battle the world has ever
known, reviewing in my mind the
great events of the campaign, espe
Icially the appeals for Maine TO mold
its prohibitory law, which came from
every section Of our land and from
every land, saw clearly that prohi
bition is a question Of nationwide I'M
port. And that evening. in the name
OF the worlds and national w. G. z
u. made a proclamation that within
a decade prohibition shall be placed
in the Constitution of the United
States and to this end called to &C
tive cooperation all temperance, pro
hibition, religious and philanthropic
bodies, all patriotic, fraternal, civic
assoeiations and all Americans who
love their country The Portland
Evening Express of recent date says
editorially:
Two years ago, at the close of
the Maine resubmission cam
paign. when Mrs. Stevens declar-
ed that the next step which must
be taken by the opponents or the
liquor traffic must be the move.
ment for an amendment TO the
federal constitution, prohibiting
the manufacture, sale, importation
and expectation of all alcoholic.
beverages. her most ardent friends
thought she had gone far beyond
the limit OF possibility and was de-
manding the impossible. Ii is per-
fectly marvellous what change
has come over the sentiment OF
the country in relation to this
question in the two years since
Mrs. Stevens made her proclana-
i ton.
All of the temperance organizations
many philanthropic bodies and numer
/ Gus religious organizations have IN
dorsed the movement, To illustrate
the sentiment of the churches on thii
subject, on Oct %, 1913, at the trien
| NAL meeting of the National Council
of congregational churches in th'
United States, held in Kansas City
/ Mo-, the council went on record by
vote of SIT to IA in favor of the propos
ed constitutional prohibitory amend
ment to the federal constitution; ant
/ this was done Notwithstanding tn
strenuous efforts of Governor Baldwin
Il of Connecticut and few other mem
hers of the council to defeat il.
!, Reduced Crime and Poverty. =" q
The aim of today,s civilization is t
j prohibit or destroy anything that il
dangerous to the life Of the people
The hookworm, the mosquito, the hy
infected food, unsanitary houses ar
included in this list, yet the use Q
alcoholic drink causes far create
loss OF life than all these combined
even il we should include the losse
! by war, famine, hurricane and food
Every prohibition state or localit,
can furnish proof that prohibition o
the liquor traffic reduces crime an
poverty. Macon, Ga, lest all liquo
licenses when the Georgia prohibition
law went into effect January /, 1905
January /, 1909, Macon had paid $47
600 debt and had 5000 in the treas
ury. Before Maine adopted state-wid
prohibition it was one of the poores
states in the Union. The legafize,
LIQUOR trade abounded. In Neal Dow