The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-11-12
WAVE OF TEMPERANCE HAS
SWEPT WHOLE WORLD

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of triumph in the address with which
Anna A. Gordon, the president, greet
ed the first business session OF the
Nation Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union here today. Her address
came after the report Of the execu-
tive committee and the appointment
of credentials and other committees.
It swept the world as affected by the
crusade against alcohol, and found
therein great cause for rejoicing.
Looking backward over the past
20 months and forward to the year
1915 one might epitomize the tenn
perance movement In retrospect and
prospect as a movement of victorious
yesterdays and confident tomor-
rows" said Miss Gordon. "Those
months chronicle an unprecedented
number of prohibition victories. The
temperance Transformation of Rus
STA; the anti-liquor measures in ef-
feet in German, French and English
military circles; the complete aboli-
ton of alcohol in the United States
navy and in the Panama canal zone;
the outlawing of the liquor traffic in
/ Virginia, Colorado, Orego, Washing
ton, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa,
Alabama and South Carolina; the ma
. jority vote for statewide prohibition
in both branches of Utah's legisla-
ture; 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 constitutionality of the prohibit
tion provision of the Indian treaties
making one-fifth of Minnesota dry;
the victorious prohibition elections
in As of Minnesota's counties; the
battle royal for prohibition in the
Dristrict of Columbia; the total alb
stinence rules enforced by many in
dustrial and railroad corporations;
the decrease at the rate Of $780,
900 month of the internal revenue
collections on distilled spirits despite
the fact that wines are paying high
tax as a result of the emergency war
tax law enacted by the last congress;
the enactment in prohibition states
of stricter enforcement laws; the dis
cussion of total abstinence and prohi-
bition by press and popular maya
zines, and the marked decrease of
their liquor advertising; the growth
of anti-alcohol sentiment in the med
ical world-these, with the endorse
ment of national constitutional pro-
hibition by hundreds of influential
organizations and the out-spoken de-
clarations of men prominent in the
official 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 social, and the political life of
the civilized world. The majority
vote on the Sheppard-Hobson bill in
the United States house of represen-
tatives on December %, 1914, even
though it fell short of decisive VIC
tory, was a triumph for nation wide
prohibition.
The speaker said that all white rib
boners we're praying for success Of
the cause at the polls in Ohio next
month, land in Vermont next spring.
California, Florida, Kentucky, In
diana, louisiana, Michigan, Minneso-
ia, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New
Mexico, Texas, Wyoming and other
near prohibition states are fast ap-
preaching the mountain top of state
wide prohibition" she asserter.
Miss Gordon's address was volum-
nous. 1t dealt in detail with all
branches of the work-prohibition by
constitutional amendment; the stu
alton in Europe; total abstinence;
the progress of woman's suffrage in
which temperance workers, she said,
rejoice; the peace movement in
which she stated that temperance
workers are prominent; the work Of
the young people; the movement for
q Francis e. willard day in the pub
lie schools, and may showing pro-
hibition territory for the same insti-
tutions. She reported net gain of
29,709 member in 1915.
Under the head Of Recommends
tions," Miss Gordon urged members
to work for the constitutional amend
ment, and said that December IL be
observed as a campaign rally day in
favor of that legislation; to hold
great meeting at Washington every
second Sunday in December; to con-
tinue opposition to the use of alcohol
in the army and navy; to use sample
ballots in educating the temperance
vote; to make all possible use of