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

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Excerpts from the address Of Mid
Anna A. Gordon, president Nation,
Woman's Christian Temperance union
before the forty-second annual conyei
tion OF that organization, held In a
attle, Wash, October 9-l4, 1915)
Looking backward over the pad
twenty months and forward to N
year 1916 one might epltomize N
temperance movement in retrospect /,
"a movement Of victorious YESTERDAY
and confident tomorrows." Thes
months chronicle an unprecedente
number OF prohibition victories. IN
temperance transformation of RussIs
the antiliquor measures in effect
German, French and English milItar
circles; the complete abolition Of a
cohol In the United States navy an
in the Panama Canal zone; the ou
lawing OF the liquor traffic In VirglnII
Colorado, Oregon, Washington, All
zona. Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa. Alaban
and South Carolina; the majority vol
for statewide prohibition in bot
branches OF Utah's legislature; ID
triumph OF the enemies OF the saloo
in a large number OF counties an
cities: the upholdlng by the Unite
States Supreme court OF the constIt
tionality of the prohibition proyisio
OF the Indian treaties-making on
fifth of Minnesota dry: the victorol
prohibition elections in forty.hye
Minnesota's counties; the battle row
for prohibition in the District Of q
lumbia; the total abstinence rules
forced by many Industrial and rallroa
corporations; the decrease at the raj
of $1,250,000 a month OF the intern
revenue collections on distilled spiri
despite the fact that wines are payin
high tax as result of the eme
gency war tax enacted by the last col
gress; the enactment in prohibited
states OF stricter enforcement law
the discussion OF total abstinence al
prohibition by press and popular ma
azines, and the marked decrease
their liquor advertising; the growt
OF antialcohol sentiment In the me-
ical world--these. with the indors
ment OF national constitutional W
hibition by hundreds of influential
ganizations and the outspoken dec
rations of men prominent in the Of
cial and political life Of the Unit
States and other nations In favor
prohibition and total abstinence, hal
given a marvellous impetus to Il
movement for the. banishment OF Jo
Barleycorn from the business, the
cial. and the political life of the ciI
lized world The majority vote on 4
Sheppard-Hobson bill in the Unit
States house OF representatives
December 22, 1914, even though II I
short Of a decisive victory, was
triumph for nationwide prohibition
Because the alcohol disease is d
deepest.seated. most chronic organ
disease known to the body polite al
body social, the permanent cure mu
be not only organic state legislatlc
but organic national legislation. 7
object Of national prohibition amen
ment is to destroy the agency th
debauches the youth of the land. n
w. c. T. u. agrees with Congressm
Richmond Pearson Hobson when
asserts: "The liquor trust is vi
enough to know that II cannot p
petuate its sway by depending on
bauching grown people, so It uses
organic method of teaching the you
to drink. We apply exactly the san
method to destroy the traffic. We
not try TO make old drinkers st
drinking. but we do aim to put St
to the systematic. organized debauc
ing of our youth through thousan
and tens OF thousands OF agenci
throughout the land"
1t is not difficult for the student
temperance history to account for
deep conviction and the earnest wo
of many men and women who tod
are foremost in the great strugg
against the drink monopoly. The
who two score years ago was tau9
by q w. C. T. U. mother at the
light hours to offer his childlike pr
er for the temperance cause, as
hand rested tenderly upon his III
head, is today q temperance war;
battling against homes most rele
les foe Boys and girls who twen
five and thirty years ago were tau9
by white-ribboners to shout, "TremO
King Alcohol, we shall grow up
whose heads, hearts, hands and u
received temperance training in p
lie school, Sunday school, and LoI
Temperance Legion. are grown
and are rapidly dethroning King Al
hol.
The history of our reform prov
that II Is well-nigh impossible 10 "a
prohibition from a state constitull
when once placed there by the yo'
of commonwealth. Constitutlo
prohibition is not dependent VI
party politics. Unlike statuI
law It is not at the mercy of each
coming legislature. The liquor tra
constantly defes the laws of the
hibition states. Nothing short Oh
tion.wide prohibition will give to ID
states the power to effectively enio
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