The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-03-12
DRYS IN GREAT BRITAIN
PRESENT BY INVITATION
Americans Not Thrusting Them
selves on People of United
Kingdom, as Vets Allege
BRITISHERS MAILING LIE
Temperance and Church Bodies
Declare Their Great Welcome
to Prohibition Workers

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The following declaration was is
sued by the leading temperance socie
ties of England under date of Febru
airy 7, 1920, and ought to lay at res
all statements to the effect tina
League workers are in England un
hidden and unwelcome:
Should Follow Americas Example
The coming into operation
throughout the United States on Jan
uary 10 OF National Prohibition as
part of the Federal Constitution is
world-eycnt of supreme Importance
Sufficient is already known of Tho
operation of Prohibition in the State.
to prove that the elimination of bcv
erage alcohol from the national lift
OF America will profoundly affect the
social and economic future of tha
great nation and indirectly of thC
world.
''The practically universal impress.
sion produced on recent visitors tc
America is, to quote Sir James Hope
Simpson, the well-known banker
one Of
The great prosperity of the
United States, the hopefulness OF
its business men, and above all
the enormous industrial advan-
tages they have already begun to
reap from their policy of the Pro-
hibition OF drink
In thus adopting National Prohi.
bition OF alcoholic beverages as the
only solution of the liquor problem
the United States has set an example
which other nations will neglect al
their peril.
The results OF Prohibition must be
judged on their merits without bias
and without fear. We have, there.
fore, welcomed to this country friend:
from America, who know the facts al
first hand and who arc qualified ocx.
plain to us in all its bearings the
great step which America has taken
They come to us not i'll any sense as
advocates seeking to interfere with
our domestic affairs, but simply as
witnesses of the working of a great
social reform. We confidently be-
speak for them patient, attentive
and intelligent hearing.
we arc, your, etc,
Presidents, Unless Otherwise Stated
John Drummer,
National Unitarian Temperance
Association.
"Rosalind Carlisle,
National British Womcn's Tenn
perancc Association.
Henry Carter,
Wesleyan Temperance and So
cal Welfare Committee (Scc).
81. II. Lear Cation.
"1ndependcnt Order of Recha-
bites.
"Clwyd,
North Wales Temperance Fed
Grafton.
"F. T. Creed,
Strength of Britain, Ltd. (Chair-
mani.
Isaac Edwards.
The Order of the Sons of Tenn
perance,
alfred Pcarcc Gould,
Baptist Total Abstinence Assoc
citation.
arthur T. Cutlery,
National Free Church Council.
81. w. Hopkins,
international Order OF Good
Templars.
George B. Hunter,
National Temperance Federation.
"R. Murray Hyslop,
congregational Union of Eng
land and Wales Temperance
Committee (Chairman).
Left Jones,
United Kingdom Alliance.
81. p. LANDAU,
"South Wales Temperance Union.
John Moore,
United Methodist Church.
al. S. Pollock,
"Women's Total Abstinence Union.
James Watkins,
primitive Methodist Conference.
&C. Sims Woodhead,
British Temperance league.
"Annie Yorko,
Omitted Kingdom Band of Hope
Union"
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