The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-11-04
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PROHIBITION VICTORIES.

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PROHIBITION VICTORIES.
Excerpts from the address of Miss
Anna A. Gordon, president National
Woman's Christian Temperance union,
before the forty-sec0nd annual cOnven.
ton of that organization, held In Ss-
attle. Wash, October 9-l4. 1881
| Looking backward over the mast
twenty months and forward to the
year 1916 one might epitomize the
temperance movement in retrospect NJ
II. movement OF victorious yesterdays
and cOnfidenh t0morrows. These
months chronicle an unprec edented
number OF prohibition victories. The
temperance transformation of Russia:
the antiliquor measures in affect In
German, French and English military
circles: the complete abolition Of Al
oohOl in this tnited States navy and
In the Panama Canal zone; the out.
lawing of the liquor traiiic in Virginia.
Colorado. Oregon. Washington. Ari.
Zona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa. Alabama
and South Carolina; the MIA iurity vote
for statewide prohibition in both
branches Of Utah's Legislature: the
| triumph Of the enemies OF the saloon
| in large number OF counties and
! cities: the upholdtng by the United
/ States Supreme court of the constitu.
| tional!ty of the prohibition provision
OF the Indian treaties-making one.
| fifth Of Minnesota dry; the victorious
prohibition elections In forty-fve OF
| Minnesota 8 counties. the battle royal
for prohibition In the District OF Co,
lunbia the total abstinence rules en-.
| forced by many industrial and railroad
corporations: the decrease at the rate
oi $l."50.000 \ month of the internal
revenue collections on distilled spirits
despite the fact that wines are paying
high tax as result of the emer.
gency war tax enacted by the last con.
| gress; the enactment in prohibition
states of stricter enforcement laws:
the discussion of total abstinence and
prohibition by press and popular mag.
aZincs. and the marked decrease OF
their liquor advertising; the growth
of antialcohol sentiment In the med.
/ ical world-these, with the indorse.
mcnt OF national constitutional pro.
hibitiOn by hundreds of influential or.
ganizations and the outspoken decla.
rations of men prominent In the of!.
cial and political life of the United
| States and other nations in favor OF
prohibition and total abstinence. have
given a marvellous impetus to the
movement for the banishmcnt of John
Barleycorn from the business, the so
cial, and the political life of the civi.
lized world. The majority vote on the
Sheppard-Hobson bill in the United
States house of representatives on
December 20, 1914, even though it fell
short of a decisive victory. was q
triumph for nationwide prohibition.
| Because the alcohol disease is the
| deepest-seated, most chronic organic
| disease known to the body polite and
body social. the permanent cure must
be not only organic state legislation
but organic national legislation. The
object of national prohibition amend
ment is to destroy the agency that
debauches the youth of the land. The
| W. G. T. U. agrees with Congressman
Richmond Pearson Hobson when he
asserts: "The liquor trust Is wise
enough to know that it cannot per
petuate its sway by depending on de
bauching grown people. so 1t uses an
organic method of teaching the young
to drink. We apply exactly the same
method to destroy the traffic. We dc
not try to make old drinkers stor
drinking. but we do aim to put a stop
to the systematic, organized debauch
ing of our youth through thousands
and tens of thousands of agencies
throughout the land"
, 1t is not difficult for the student OF
! temperance history to account for the
deep conviction and the earnest work
of many men and women who today
are foremost in the great struggles
against the drink monopoly. The boy
who two score years ago was taught
by W. c. T. U. mother at the twi-
light hours to offer his childlike pray
er for the temperance cause. as her
hand rested tenderly upon his little
head. is today a temperance warrior
battling against homes most relent-
les foe Boys and girls who twenty
five ana thirty years ago were taught
by white-ribboners to shout. "Tremble,
King Alcohol. we shall grow up and
whose heads hearts hands and feet
received temperance training In pub
7 lie school Sunday school. and Loyal
Temperance Legion, are grown up.
and are rapidly dethroning King Alco-
hOl.
The history of our reform proves
that it is wcllnigh impossible to take
prohibition from a state constitution
when once placed there by the voters
of commonwealth. Constitutional
prohibition is not dependent upon
party politics. Unlike a statutory
law it is not at the mercy OF each in
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