Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-07-09
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and to deter other states from becom
ing prohibition states.

and to deter other states from becom'
ing prohibition states.
"Men, not money, are the real as.
sets of a state. The happiness and
the general welfere of its citizens
are the first obligations Of a state.
The generation growing up in West
Virginia, its future men and women,
will grow into the full stature Of
manhood and WOmanhoOd without
knowing the open saloon, having heal
thy bodies, clear minds, and clean
morals, will be forth more to the
state than all the material wealth.
Compare, if you can make such COM
parison, the $650,000 Of annual rev.
enue formerly received by the state
from the liquor business with a gen.
Grafton of boys and girls, men and
women that knows not the saloon
In an address on The Fight for
Prohibition in the Pacific Northwest"
the Rev. A.. w. Leonard of Seattle
told the delegates to the national
convention of the Anti-saloon League
today, that womeh4had done some Of
the most remarkable work: He SAID:
"On November g, 1914, Oregon
went for statewide prohibition with
a total majority Of '36,4S0.i Nine hun.
dred saloons and eighteen breweries
in n~ihety-cight towns were closed.
'%Montant has decided that the sa-
loon shall 60 and that will be accom-.
p.;siled at no distant day
Praise For Women
idaho decided that this should he
done. The legislature in January,
1915, passed a resolution submitting
a constitutional %prohibitory amend
ment to a vote OF the people. This
will be voted upon November next,
and will undoubtedly pass by an w.
erwhelming majority. A bill was pre-
scented to the legislature providing
for statutory prohibition to go into
effect January /, 1916. Thus, b. con-
stitutional amendments and statu-
tory law, prohibition will so into ef-
feet in Idaho.
washington also decided that this
should be done.
"In this connection no one organi-
cation or agency is entitled to more
praise than the Woman's Christian
Union. When little else
being done to educate the pub
lie onEsthe subjects Of statewide pro.
hibition, the members Of this organj-
cation were t~ireless in their efforts.
They organized their auxiliaries in
every town, city and county, and
boldly proclaimed that the people of
Washington would some time strike
the enemy its death blow. It was due
to the efforts put forth by
tho Woman's Christian Temperance
Union that scientific teaching regard.
ing the effects of alcohol on the hu-
man system was introduced into the
curriculum of public school educa-
ton by legislative enactment. All
honor to the noble, self-sacriicing
of the w. G.. T. U. for their
splendid achievements in the COM
cause. y,
"Not ~infrequently since the fran
chise was granted to the women OF
Washington, have there appeared ar
ticles in eastern papers, ostensibly
from residents in Washington, de-
that woman suffrage is a fail
ure, and that if the people Of Wash
ington had a chance to express them
by ballot on this question, they
would return to the old order, refus.
ing to grant to women the God-given
right.
There is no doubt about the fact
the State Of Washington could
not have beer voted dry had it not
been for the work as we'll as the
votes of the women