Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-13
BY MRS. LILLIAN M. NJ. STEVENS.
president Of the National Woman'sI
Christian temperance Union, in
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president OF the National Womanf
Christian temperance Union, in
the New York WorId.)
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 prohi
bition battle the world has ever
known, reviewing in my mind the
great events of the campaign, espe
cialIy the appeals for Maine to mold
it's 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. c. T
u. made proclamation that within
q 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 philanthropie
bodies, all patriotic, fraternal, civic
associations 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 OF the
LIQUOR traffic must be the move
meflt 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. 1t Is per-
fectly marvellous what q change
has come over the sentiment Of /
the country in relation to this
question in the two years since
Mrs. Stevens made her proclamar
ton.
All OF the temperance organizations
many phiIanthropic bodies and numer'
Gus religious organizations have in
dorsed the movement. To illustrate
the sentiment of the churches on this
subject, on Oct. %. 1913, at the trien'
NAL meeting OF the National Council
Of Congregational churches in the
United States, held in Kansas City
Mo-, the council went on record by a
vote of SIT to IA in favor of the propos.
ed constitutional prohibitory amend.
ment to the federal constitution; and
this was done Notwithstanding the
strenuous efforts of Governor Baldwin
Of Connecticut and a few other mem.
bers of the council to defeat it.
Reduced Crime and Poverty.
The aim of today's civilization is to
prohibit or destroy anything that is
dangerous TO the life of the people.
The hookworm, the mosquito, the fly,
infected food, unsanitary houses are
included tn this list, yet the use of
alcoholic drink causes far greater
loss of life than all these combined,
even IL we should include the losses
by war, famine, hurricane and flood.
Every prohibition state or locality
can furnish proof that prohibition of
the liquor traffic reduces crime and
poverty Macon, Ga, lost all liquor
licenses when the Georgia prohibitory
law went into effect January /. 1908.
January /, 1909, Macon had paid Sat-
600 debt and had, $500 in the treas
ury. Before Maine adopted statewide
prohibition it was one of the poorest
states in the Union. The .legalized
liquor trade abounded. In Neal BOWS