The Alaska citizen., 1916-12-11
ANT|.L|QUOR CAMP A|CN .ON
 IN R|TA|N

l , | government by the Strength of BII | ..n Movement asking that the Bnt l .sh eminent follow the lead ol 1 .hc g.eutest of the allies to pro | a.blt the sale ol alcohol. This re
 .larkable appeal has already beeh Igned by one thousand representa- | i've. of the bran power of the na | lon, including leading officers ill the | .Iuy and navy, directors of mum
 cons, privy councillors, proninenD | ,ntn in literature, art and music, l finance and industry, university ana college professors, heads of public l ,.ud secondary schools, prominent ,cienlist and medical men. The memorial claims that two grave dangers stand before the cOun .ty. holding back the power of early victory and throwing a shadow oveI
 he vision ol peace. One is the vast .ng power of alcohol, the other ia he impelilling ol infant life. Among ..u the factors of weakness these confront us with terrible viyidnes .nu they lie within our own control with the weakening power of al ! yohol removed, our national effort ..guinst the enemy would gather in. ceased .treng h; with the increaseD strength and more rapid supplies oui lOsses in six campaigns would have been substantially reduced
 The following fact. are given con .e.ning the effect of alcohol:
 Tt flinders the army, delays muni tions, keeps thousands of men iron.
 Jar work daily, makes good work .nen second rate.
 Hampers the navy, delays trans ports, places them at the mercy oI submarines, slow down repairs anG -ongests docks.
 "Thteatens the mercantile marine, .bsoIbing during the war betweeL yO and 70 million cubic feet of space md retards building of ships.
 "Destroys food supplies; in twenty
 ,o,tb ,f ,.,. if consumes oyar fVyt- md a half million tons of food. with 5lgar enough to last the nation
 ighty days and uses up more su8ai
 han the army.
 Wastes our financial strength; it. the first twenty months of the Wal Jur people spent on alcohol three hundred million sterling.
 "Diyerts the nations ..trength; uses 100000 workers. one million acres Jt land and one and a half million tons of coal yearly; during the Wal
 has involved the lifting and hand .ng on road and rail of d weigh, equal to fifty million tons.
 "Shatters our moral strength; its temptations to women involve dan ger to children and anxiety to thou sands of soldiers
 The appeal goes on to gay that during the eighteen months sine,
 he government appointed the boaro Jf control it's work, though success
 ul socially, has had little effect in he great industries on which the armies rely, and the men in the trenches are betrayed by an enemy at home.
 Russia and her prohibition is made much of in the memorial, which con cludes:
 we are no temperance reformers IS such. We stand for the great desire of all good people to strike he might.est blow for freedom of which Britain is capable. We sup port the demand for prohibition made to the government by it's own investigators, and by the shipbuild CTS deputation, with not a teetotalel among them, in March, 1915. Be Iieving, in the prime minister's word |, that No sacrifice is too great when freedom and honor are at stake. md that rich and poor alike should bear it, we ask the government to
 uspend all drink licenses through out the kingdom for the period of he war.
 We believe golden moment has | lrrived for our country; that, pre-
 pared for sacrifice by the example 1f the king and Lord Kitchener, the nation is ready for the natural step that France and Rus ia have al eady taken. The suspension of the | liuuor traffic during the war, the conversion of the public houses into houses of refreshment, will quicken ID our civil and fighting populations will raise a new fire of resolution
 our people, and will give to mil | lions the first opportunity they have