Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-24
Gathering at Atlantic City De-
mands Submission and Pro-
lection for the Territories
tBy Latest Mai. J

ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., Jnly g.
The following resolutions, which were
adopted by the board Of directors OF
the Anti.Sal0on League Of America
and recommended by that body to the
national convention of the league,
we're adopted BY the convention today /:
I'VE stand upon the threshold of a
new day in American civic life. In
full harmony with the progress being
made along all lines for the conser.
walton of the public health, mainten.
ance of the public peace. the protecs
ton Of public morals and the promo
tion of public welfare, this nation is
rapidly moving toward the absolute
prohibition Of the beverage liquor traf-
fic.
Already more than two-thirds of
tie counties and more than three.
fourths Of the municipalities of the
nation are under prohibition. Eighteen
Of the As states have adopted prohibi.
tory laws. while the legislatures of
four other states have submitted the
question to an early vote of the peo-
pie. When the prohibitory laws be-
come operative in all Of these Is
states more than GO, 000. 900 people will
be living under prohibition and 80 per
cent of the area of the nation viii be
no-license territory.
We note with satisfaction the rap
idly changing tone Of the spress on
this great question of the day, and the
fact that hundreds Of daily newspa-
pers in our cities now bar liquor ad.
refreshments and that leading maya.
zines and journals have given and are
giving large space to the consideration
of the liquor question. thus presenting
to the pubic instructive and authori-
tative articles on its various phases
Physicians Have Helped.
I'VE note with satisfaction the
strong attitude which medical science
has taken and the propagation of the
scientific truth regarding alcohol by
great manufacturing enterprises, trans.
portation companies and business con-
Germs of almost every character.
We commend Congress and the
federal government for the continued
support of the anti-canteen law; for
repeated appropriations now aggregat-
ing more than $500. 900 for recreation
depots at army posts as substitutes for
the canteen; for the continued enforce
ment of the treaty provisions which.
prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors
among the Indians and in Indian coun-
ties; for the recent advance step taken
in the enforcement of prohibition in
the Unites States Capitol building; for
the remedial temperance legislation
recently enacted for the District Of
Columbia. and for the passage of the
interstate liquor shipment law prohib-
iting the shipment of intoxicating IL
Quors in interstate commerce, where
such liquors are intended to be pos
sessed or used in the violation Of state
law.
I'VE also commend Congress for the
general attitude of its members on
the liquor question, evidenced by the
appropriations made for sending dele
gates representing the United States
government to the thirteenth and four
teenth international Congresses on Al
cchoL which were held in The Hague,
Holland, in 1911, and in Milan, Italy.
in 1873 as well as the appropriation
Of $4,000 made by the last Congress
to entertain this same international
Congress on Alcohol in the United
States this year.
Congress Il Commented.
We further commend the majority