The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-02
THE LIQUOR PRoBLxM m EUROPE.
tB,.hop James Cannon ~. IN Christian Advocate,

r., In Christian Advocate.)
I shall not % made, sold. or consumed
In the United States. Such gieanuc
moral decision ID without president:
or course II is rather absurd 20
speak Of the ratification OF iederai
constitutional amendment as the re-
suit of a .'xcdden gathering of un-
| comfortable emotion" The consul
tutional amendment liz the climax OF
fifty years Of agitation, education. and
| legislation. To close students OF the
! prohibition movement In the United
| States, 1t has been evident that the
splendid effects Of prohibition in
| counties and cities and states where II
had been given a. fair trial indicated
that 1t would in time become a ma
tionai law. But few persons in Eu-
rope were sufficiently well acquainted
| with conditions in the United States
| to be prepared for the action taken
| by such sweeping majority Of eleven
| twelfths of the states OF the Union.
The Eject Upon Europe.
| Everything that happens in the
! United States today receives such con-
! sideration in Europe as It never has
received before The decision Of the
United States to enter into the world
, war and the tremendous energy and
| resources which she brought to bear
| to effect speedy settlement have
| changed the attitude OF every nation
| of Europe toward the United States.
| Her power Is too great for her to be
| Haunted and her unselishness was
| too manifest for her motives to be
successfully irupugned, 1t has been
| clearly recognized that both In her
ideals and IN her ability to make her
t'Ieais zeal, the United States Is clearly
, n e leading nation OF the world. What
| ever she does therefore Is worthy OF
the most thorough study on the part
OF the other nations, and so the adop-
| ton of prohibition by the United
States has had a great effect upon
! Europe, and that effect will be greater
as time goes by.
|. Tho Test of Efficiency.
| In view cf the fatt that Canada
| and the United States are united on
| the governmental policy OF prohibi-
ton, and in view OF the further fact
| which has beer thoroughly demon
| strated by experience that the eff
clen.y of labor is far greater where
prohibition prevails, it becomes in
cr"asingly iT possible for the bust
ness world in any country to ignore
the pgpHiDliiOn 'tueStlpTi. AffleTPrtt HfS
| pushed prohibition to the front, and
| it is to-day one OF the questions which
the business, social, moral. and religi-
Gus life of the world must consider
! 1t cannot be ignored cvaded, or
! brushed aside as either trifiing, ,ab-
surd. or impossible Any govern
! mental policy which has been DELHI
erately considered voted upon, and
adopted by a two-thirds or three
| fourths majority BY the two great. pro-
rressive Notwithstanding countries Of
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