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elqimcnt May Not Sanction Drunk
enncSs.
The following statement was made
+ before Congress by Dr.. Clarence True
Wilson, representing the Board OF
Temperance, Prohibition, and Public
Morals OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church, He spoke as follows:
l. Ii should be stated that the
people l represent are in favor ulti-
mately OF the Randall bill as it is al
ready recommended By this commit
( tee, but in view OF the fact that we
are pressed for time and as the Sen
/ ate adopted the Jones amendment we
! shall be satisfied with that.
,. Let me state that the Metho-
+ dist Church, by official action Of its
I general conference, has asked for
this legislation, and by action OF H.
/ 600 churches representing 1000, 0,00G
members and 10,000,00O constitu-
cnts Every other evangelical church
has approved the movement.
,. This approval has not been
I simply i'll d general way, but has
been a definite request that Congress
will enact this law at this session.
/. If Congress should fail to pass
this bill before March +, the abuses
it is sought TO remedy are of such Il
flagrant and scandaIous nature that
/ before Congress could take the mat
/ ter up again there would be q Ma
( tion-wide outburSt of indignation
and scandal.
;. This bill is not in any sense q
restriction upon the freedom OF the
! press. Newspapers and other publi-
/ cations will still be free to express
! any opinion as to prohibition, as to
the liquor traffic, or as to the advisa-
bility of using liquors. They will
simply not be free to be d retail sell
/ ing intermediary, unlicensed and Un-
/ controlled, of the liquor traffic. If
/ there is any necessity for licensing
! and regulating the traffic, the princi-
! pie of local license should be made
/ universal except where prohibition
has supplanted it.
6. The fact that the mail-order
trade in liquors is without the
/ bounds of either the license system
! or prohibition system destroys the
efficacy of the argument that II is a
! Legitimate" business and therefore
should not be restricted in its use of
the mails. An unregulated business
: in liquors is not a legitimate busi-
ness, and the Federal Government
/ is under no obligation whatever to
recognize it as such or to order it's
relations toward such a traffic as If it
were legitimate.
] z. It is a mistake to think that
{! this mail-order business is entirely
| in prohibition States. 1t obtains just
| -roir 1ry- r,p1 or
/ local option and in communities
where the license system is so strict
| that a mail-order trade in competi-
! ton with the local saloon is at a
! great advantage.
/ 4 The time has come when the Gov
.zernn,- must cease to assist in
AerEzsaKp he astjljauoG laws Of
the various States. The sending OF
advertisements through the mail, ev-
en- into States where the whole State
has voted dry, is an assault upon the
temperance purpose of the majority
Of the States of the Union.
About 20 years ago the liquor deal
ers began a propaganda to create an
appetite among boys, to induce wo-
men 10 drink, to furnish samples free
until the appetite got started. l hold
Gilmore, made in June, 1902, to the
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers
Convention, saying, I'VE must create
the demand for our brands and not
depend upon disinterested parties to
do it for US" The United States
Brewers Association convention pass
ed this resolution on June 20, 1902:
1T is our duty to begin a syste
~
perienced advertising man refers to
a half dozen whisky dealers who
have actually made millions through
newspaper advertising. These ad
yertisements are sent into dry terri
/ tory and wet, to minors of both
sexes, to women, with free sample
bottles and the promise of finery and
bric-a-brac and special inducements
for the first order. Frequently they
are sent addressed simply to the'Oc-
cupants of No. so-and-so," and Un-
Gle Sam has considered that an ade-
uuate address for liquor advertise
ment.
Many of these ads. are printed in
beautiful colors, on cards that would
be enticing to anybody. They repre-
sent women drinking under all con-
ditions and encourage the use of
home" beer. Here is one showing
a young man and a girl in a boat, a
bottle OF whisky sitting by their side
as they row. 1t bears the statement,
''They all need it in outdoor exer-
! else" An ad. of the Moorhead
.sB>anch of the Hennepin Brewing Co.
S picture of man, his wife, and
le little boy all drinking beer. The
ittle youngster is not 10 years of
{ age. Under the picture are these
words: Now you know why this
kid is so spry!" Here are ads.show-
! ing adolescent girls consuming beer.
Here is an ad. picturing woman re-
/ ceiving a case of beer, and the dray-
man says: This beer, madam. is
! the purest, cleanest, and most whole
/ some thing that comes into your
house" Every word of it is a lie,
for it is notorious that there isn't a
man in the United States, much less
a woman, who knows how TO get Il
pure drop of anything from the liq-
uor industry. It's drinks are drugged
and when the pure-food law was
/ passed, the liquor men squirmed like
a pack of ''muckwOrms' on hot
shovel, until they were exempted
from the pure-food provisions. If
beer is a food, it ought to come un-
der the requirements of pure food,
but they know and the Government
knows that it is not, so they are alb
. sOiutely exempt.
+ Just now the significant feature is
+ an attempt to create an appetite in
! children before their birth. Here is
big display ad. from newspaper
advising "Abend Brau" as a high
I class beer for invalids and nursing
mothers. Here is another that
reads, 1T is known as blessing and
q boon to mothers" Here is beer
! a 6 AEa q