The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-11-04
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PROHIBITION VICTORIES.

AuHh n. OOTuOH, pItblutnL National
Woman's Christian Temperance unlon
before the forty-second annual conyen
tion of that organization, held in s..
attle, Wash, October 9-14. 1851
Looking backward over the past
twenty months and forward to tha
year 1916 one might epltomize the
temperance movement In retrospect az
"a movement of victorious yesterday.
and confident tomorrows." These
months chronicle an unprecedented
number of prohibition victories. The
temperance transformation of Russia
the antiliquor measures In effect lnf
German, French and English military
circles the complete abolition Of al.
cohol in the United States navy and
In the Panama Canal zone; the oui
lawing of the liquor traffic in Virginia
Colorado, Oregon, Washington, ARD
zona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa. Alabama
and South Carolina; the majority vote
for statewide prohibition in both
branches OF Utahs legislature; The
triumph OF the enemies OF the saloon
in a large number of counties and
cities; the upholding by the United
States Supreme court OF the constltu
tionality Of the prohibition provision
of the Indian treaties-making one |
fifth of Minnesota dry; the victorious
prohibition elections in forty.Gye od
Minnesota's counties; the battle ROYAL
for prohibition in the District OF Col
lumbia; the total abstinence rules en-
forced by many industrial and railroad
corporations; the decrease at the rate
OF $1,250,000 month of the Internal
revenue collections on distilled spirits
despite the fact that wines are paying
a high tax as result OF the emerl
gency war tax enacted by the last con
gress; the enactment In prohibited
states OF stricter enforcement laws
the discussion of total abstinence and
prohibition by press and popular mag
azines, and the marked decrease d
their liquor advertising; the growth
Of antialcohol sentiment In the med
ical world-these, with the indorsei
ment OF national constitutional pro
hibition by hundreds of influential or
ganizations and the outspoken deca
rations of men prominent in the OIL
cial and political life Of the United
States and other nations In favor oc
prohibition and total abstinence, havd
given a marvellous impetus to tha
movement for the Punishment Of John
Barleycorn from the business, the 50
cial, and the political life of the cyi
lized world. The majority vote on thf
Sheppard-Hobson bill in the United
States house of representatives or
December 22, 1914. even though 1t fel
short OF a decisive victory. was 4
triumph for nationwide prohibition.
Because the alcohol disease is thq
deepest seated, most chronic organf
disease known to the body polite anf
body social, the permanent cure musn
be not only organic state legislation
but organic national legislation. The
object of a national prohibition amend
ment is to destroy the agency thar
debauches the youth of the land. Tha
w. C. T. u. agrees with Congressman
Richmond Pearson Hobson when hf
asserts: THE liquor trust is wisf
enough to know that II cannot per
petuate its sway by depending on ~
bauching grown people, so II uses a
organic method of teaching the young
to drink. We apply exactly the samf
method to destroy the traffic. We d7
not try to make old drinkers ston
drinking, but we do aim to put stop
to the systematic, organized debaucn1
ing of our youth through thousand
and tens OF thousands of agencieS
throughout the land"
It is not difficult for the student
temperance history to account for tht
deep conviction and the earnest worN
of many men and women who today
are foremost in the great struggleN
against the drink monopoly. The ooN
who two score years ago was tausn
by w. C. T. U. mother at the Nv
light hours to offer his childlike pray
er for the temperance cause, as DC
hand rested tenderly upon his hul
head, is today q temperance warrioH
battling against homes most relenv
les foe. Boys and girls who twenl
five and thirty years ago were taus
by white-ribboners to shout, "TremO'l
King Alcohol, we shall grow up an
whose heads, hearts, hands and ieq
received temperance training in pu'
lie school, Sunday school, and Loy
Temperance Legion, are grown
and are rapidly dethroning King Ac1
hol.
The history OF our reform Prov
that II is well.nigh impossible to taA
prohibition from a state constituVO
when once placed there by the yolel
Of commonwealth. Constitutlon1
prohibition is not dependent upO
party politics. Unlike a statn'O
law 1t is not at the mercy of eacn
coming Legislature. The liquor tran
constantly defies the laws of the p'Y
hibition states. Nothing short OIL
tion.wide prohibition will give to tne
states the power to effectively eniO'
their prohibition laws.