The Prescott daily news., 1915-10-27
PROHIBITION VICTORIES

NohloH CHIISIldH temperance union, before the forty-second annual conven- t1on of that organization, held in Se- attle, Wash, October 9-14, 1915.)
 Looking backward over the past twenty months and forward to the year 1916 one might epttomize the temperance movement in retrospect as
 a movement of victorious yesterdays and confident tomorrows.' These months chronicle an unprecedented number of prohibition victories. The temperance transformation of Russea. the antiliquor measures in effect in German, French and English military circles; the complete abolition of al- cohol in the United States navy and in the Panama Canal zone: the out lawing of the liquor traffic in Virginia, Colorado, Oregon, Washington. Ari- zona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Alabama and South Carolina; the majority 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 upholding by the United states Supreme court of the constitu- tionality of the prohibition provision of the Indian treaties-making one fifth of Minnesota dry; the victorious prohibition elections in forty-five of Minnesota's counties; the battle royal for prohibition in the District of Co., lumbia; the total abstinence rules en- hxry I ,,I T corporations; the decrease at the rate of S1,250,000 a month of the internal revenue collections on distilled spirits despite the fact that wines are paying a 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 aZines, and the marked decrease of their liquor advertising; the growth of antialcohol sentiment in the med ical world-these, with the indorse- ment of national constitutional pro- hibition by hundreds of influential or lganizations and the outspoken decla- rations of men prominent in the off 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 punishment 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 22. 1914, even though 1t fell short of a decisive victory, was 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 a national prohibition amend ment is to destroy the agency that debauches the youth of the land. The w. C. T. r. agrees with Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson when he asserts: The liquor trust is wise enough to know that it cannot per petuate it's sway by depending on de- bauChing grown people, so it uses an organic method of teaching the young to drink We apply exactly the same method to destroy the traffic We do not try to make old drinkers stop drinking, but we do aim to put stop to the systematic. organized debauch- ing of our youth through thousands and tens of thousands of agencies throughout the land"
 It 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 CT 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 lie school. Sunday school, and Loyal Temperance Legion, are grown up, and are rapidly dethrcning King Alec hol.
 
 The history of our reform proves that it is wellnigh impossible to take prohibition from state constitution