The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-11-12

conducted Dy the national Woman .
Christian Temperance CnionJ
PROHIBITION VICTORIES.
Excerpts from the address OF Miss
Anna A. Gordon, president National
Woman's Christian Temperance union,
before the forty-second annual conven-
ton OF that organization. held in Sc.
attic. Wash. October Ola. 1850
Looking backward over the past
twenty months and forward to the
year 1916 one might epitomize 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 Russia;
the a|ntiliquor 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
having OF the liquor traffic in Virginia,
Colorado, Oregon. Washington. Ari-
IONA, Arkansas. Idaho, Iowa, Alabama
and South Carolina: the majority vote
ioi lNt pIOHiOltlOH III DOlh
branches of Utah's Legislature; the
triumph of the enemies of the saloon
in a large number of counties and
|, cities; the unfolding by the United
States Supreme court of the constitu-
, tionality of the prohibition provision
of the Indian treaties-making one
2 fifth Of Minnesota dry; the victorious
prohibition elections in forty-ive OF
Minnesota's counties; the battle royal
a for prohibition in the District of Co
lumbia; the total abstinence rules en-
forced by many industrial and railroad
, 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 a result of the emer-
= gency war tax enacted by the last con
gress; the enactment in prohibition
| states of s~tricter 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
zeal world--these. with the indorse
ment OF national constitutional pro
hibition by hundreds of influential or
CARNATIONS and the o~utspoken decla
rations If men prominent in the Off
cial and political life of the United
States and other nations in favor o
prohibition and total abstinence, hav'
given a marvellous impetus to tn,
movement for the Punishment OF job
Barleycorn from the business. the SC
cial. and the political life of the civ
lized world. The majority vote on tn
Sheppard Hobson bill in the Unite
al States house OF representatives o
III December %. 1914. wen though 1t fe
III short of a decisive victory, was
triumph for nationwide prohibition
al Because the alcohol disease is III
hi deepest-seated. most chronic organi
l disease known to the body polite an
Wl body social, the permanent cure mu!
be not only organic state Legislation
&l but organic national legislation. TT
III object of a national prohibition amen
p ment is to destroy the agency TIL
debauches the youth OF the land. tt
W. C. T. L. agrees with Congressma
%, Richmond Pearson Hobson when
asserts: The liquor trust is wi
enough to know that it cannot pe
49,, petuate its sway by depending on d
49,. bauching grown people, so 1t uses
ray, 49, ~ - axao.I. .ho.or
method to destroy the trafic. We
not try TO make old drinkers ST
rler drinking. but we do aim to put a ST
'he TO the systematic. organized debau(
and ;nn =, orr youth through thousan
'ueo and tens of thousands of agenci
throughout the land"
ugh =
uble II is not difficult for the student
lild- temperance history to account for I
ards deer conviction and the earnest VI
,jec- of many men and women who tod
so are foremost in the great strugg
bac. against the drink monopoly. The I
who two score years ago was taul
,ode by a w. c. I. L. mother at the
an light hours to offer his childlike pr
,ead er for the temperance cause. as
!, he. hand rested tenderly upon his III
head. is today q temperance war;
battling against homes most relt
les foe. Bows and girls who tweI
spe. Z .,in.u vaors ,go were IN
as bv white-ribboners to shout. "Trem
'ne Kin Alcohol. we shall grow up"
i ny whose heads, hearts. hands and
Out received temperance training in
hlhu lie school,. Sunday school, and Lc
ir IL Temperance legion. are grown
MIN and are rapidly dethroning King A
'n' hol.
The history OF our reform pre-
that it is well.nigh impossible TO
the prohibition from a 5 ate cohs''tu
Cfo. when once placed the t W ~ w