The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-04-19
W. c. T. U. COLUMN
OUR THREE WORLD PR0HIBI
TION DOCUMENTS

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The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union has always looked upon
the whole world as its parish, and
each of the three presidents of the
! National w. C. T. U. has issued a
proclamation for World Prohibition.
To Frances E. Willard, sitting in
her study at Rest College, came the
inspiration to write the Polyglot Pc
tition, addressed to all rulers and
nations of the world, in an appeal
for world prohibition, world purity,
and freedom from the opium trade.
This petition was the cry of the
womanhoid of the world that the
legalization of sin in any form
might be abolished.
Amid the smoke of the great bat
tie for the retention of prohibition
in the State of Maine in 1911, there
came to Lillian M. n Stevens the
vision of a day When not only the
United States but all the world
should be emancipated from the
liquor traffic, and she issued the fol
lowing statesman1ike proclamation:
IN the name of the Worlds and
National w. c. T. IT,, we hereby
make this proclamation for a great
crusade to carry the vital truth to
the people themselves in all lands,
and through them to place prohibit
ton in the organic law of all ma
tions and ultimately in the organic
law of the world, and to this high
end we invoke the blessing and
guidance of Almighty God and the
cooperation of the men and women
of all lands who love their fellow
men"
On November IL, 1918, the day of
the close of the great World War,
Anna Adams Gordon, president of
the National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, issued this pro-
clamation
World democracy, world peace,
world purity and world patriotism,
demand world prohibition.
Representing the National Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union of
the United States, a Republic about
tional law, we hereby call upon the
peoples of all faiths and all organ
izations in the worlds family of ma
tions, to clasp hands with the
Worlds w. c. T. U. and to help
bring to full fruition it's hope and
its heroic service of thirty-tive years
on behalf of sober world. Science
declares against alcohol. Health,
conservation and business prosperity
demand total abstinence and pro-
| hibition. Together let US agitate,
educate, organize and legislate. until
i the exalted vision of the founder of
the Worlds w. c. T. u, Frances
E. Willard, is realized; until the
Gospel of the Golden Rule of Christ
is worked out in the customs of So
ciety and in the laws of every land.
cat the close of the devastating
world war, in the white heat of the
limitless unparalleled opportunities
of new internationalism, depending
upon the help of God and of all who
love humanity we hereby proclaim,
by the year 1925, the triumph of
world prohibition"
No man is above the law and nc
man is below it; nor do we ask any
mans permission when we require
him to obey it. Obedinece to the
law is demanded as right; not
asked al favor-Theodor Roose-
welt.
In an interview granted on his
seventy-fifth birthday the other
week. Thomas A. Edison was asked
his views in regard to light wines
and beer. The great inventor frown-
cd, reports the interview and re-
piled:
Every man with brains ought toI
take pledge to vote to make liquor
impossible
The only position for those who
favor respect for law to take is that
those charged with law enforcement
must enforce all the laws, and all
good citizens must obey all theI
laws; neither can exercise any right
OF choice in this matter without
placing themselves above the law
1t is part of faithful officials to en-
force and the part of good citizens
to obey them.-Hon. II. M. Daugh-
erty. Attorney General of the United
States. (advertisement)
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