Evening star., 1924-07-18
DRY LAW DECLARED
ASSET NATIONALLY
Bishop Nicholson Says Any
thing Morally Right Is Com
merCiaiIy Profitable.
CITES FINANCIAL STATUS
Tells World League Against Al
cohol Prohibition Will
Be Extended
RN tho ANSnrinfpd prnss

Ry the Associated Press.
WIN ONA LAKE, Ind, July lS.-"W e
must build our nation on the solid
foundation of Righteousness, law and
good will. 1t is the only permanent
basis for business, for family life and
Tor individual prosperity"
This was the keynote of an address
today of Bishop Thomas Nicholson of
Detroit, president of the Anti-Saloon
League of America. before the inter
national annual conference of the
World League Against Alcohol.
Bishop Nicholson, a member of the
governing body of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and a pioneer in
the prohibition movement, outlined
the genesis and progress of the dry
crusade in America, attributing its
triumphs to the moral and spiritual
ideals" which always have been its
inspiration and the motivating force
of its supporters.
The prohibition movement has
been pronouncedly Christian and "a
church movement" Bishop Nicholson
said. The moral and the spiritual
ideals have been to the front always.
Dr. Howard Russell laid the founda-
ton of the movement in prayer, and
it has never ceased to be prayer
movement. The leaders were all re-
lIEiouS people and were prompted by
the religious motive and sustained b!
religious enthusiasm
The eXnns:ence of prohibition in
America, Bichny Nicholson said, dem
onstrated "witr increasing clearness
that whatever II morally and relig-
iously right will sooner or later be
recognized to b., industrially and
commercially prohtable."
Declares Sobriety Pays.
'.Sobriety pays" was the epitome
OF the lesson from the American eN-
perience, he said.
.'Prohibition is and it will be seer
to be increasingly a great national
asset. We have paid a billion dollars
on our national debt in the past year,
while the nations of Europe were
struggling to balance their budgets.
and most of them finding it abso-
lutely impossible to do so; we have
paid six billions Of dollars on our ma
tional debt since 1918, and we now
have enough money in the savings
banks accounts to pay the national
debt" These benefits Bishop Nichol-
son believed America should share
with the world.
Without offensive interference
with the affairs of other nations, We
are in real sense trustees OF the
world. If we have any good things
we must share them. To that end we
shall carry on this great world-wlde
campaign.
He suggested these specific meas
ures for the future:
we must go after colleges and en-
list young men for the work: o.o,s
We must use the SUNDAY scnoois
and the weekday religious educa-
we must attempt the transforma-
tion of the daily press. The IDEA that
nothing is news but the abnorinal ls
as pernicious as is the doctrine OF
force .,o
United States and the whole Worid Is
asking if America will make gooo on
prohibition. Rev. +. Scott McBrloe'
general superintend of the Anti
Saloon League, declared.
"If we make good" DR.. McBrlde
said. the world will see in the nlteo
states demonstration that VIII CON
vince even the most skeptical nation
that prohibition. economically, social
". morally and politically, is the
greatest achievement recorded IN tne
history of the nations. Before the
ewes of the world it is our solemn
duty to present such a demons tration
as will win for prohibition IN thiS
generation. The United states VIII
give prohibition to the world in TINS
Generation, or by it's failure hold
back tha world from the Dement'S OF
prohibition for century or more.
when the vets brought on the
refendum election in ONO last :eai
tn take Ohio from the dry column
the superintendent of the ONO
League at that time, James A. White,
gave out the information that some
of the boasted foreign money, whlch
the world liuuor organization claimed
to have. was in Ohio in fulfllment of
the promise given to the publlc
year previous that they would send
the money from Europe to help the
vets in the United States. When we
get into the referendum fights this fall In
Massachusetts and Michigan, or in
any other state, this same wet Tor
eign money will come up and face US
again.
Il find no fault with the foreign
countries using their money to pay
their honest war debts obligated to
this country by them during the war
but | emphatically protest against
the use of foreign money within
bounds of the United States of Amer
lea to break down our Constitution