The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-01-01
WOMEN KNOW A SINISTER INFLU-
ENCE WHEN THEY SEE IT

THE Christian Advocate, December II,
1890 THE Fate of Prohibition is in the
Hands of the Women."1
To illustrate the efforts Of the vets to
make it appear that the uneXpressed
opinion Of women is with them, the writer
recalls the attempt made at Denver, last
June to break down the endorsement
which the General Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs has given to prohibition. In a
resolution passed by the Federation was
the statement that there were sinister
influences undertaking to undermine the
efficacy of the Eighteenth Amendment to
the constitution of the United States" A
few vets were SO aroused by this state
ment that some of the dryS thought it
would better be left out; but there fol-
lowed a vigorous debate in which women
from various parts of the country de-
clared that the forces working against
prohibition in localities justified the des-
ignation sinister" and the convention
voted overwhelmingly to retain it.
This and other records indicate that the
women are not going to be easily STAN
peded into support of opposition to the
Amendment. At the same time it must
not be overlooked that between the dry
leaders and the vets is the great army
of American Womanhood, a large percent
age of it entirely unconscious of the sig
nificance of the fight just being made and
because of this unawareness, more easily
victimized by wet propaganda"
1.-THE fate of prohibition is in the hands
of individual women. women on farms and
in homes women in industry and profess
sons, women who perhaps never thought
of themselves as important to a nations
laws. The issue is with them. Let them
keep faith with prohibition and prohibit
ton will justify their faith"
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION AGAINST
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC
fThe Christian Century, December II,
1880. Editorial. THE Anti-Saloon
League."]
Looked at from the standpoint of this
editor, the work of the Anti-Saloon
League has been super success. It has
piloted "the church in action against the
LIQUOR traffic" until multitudes of nom
church people have joined the train and
driven the traffic from under legal protec-
ton. In this way the movement which
the League has led now represents not SO
much the church in action as American
citizenship in action. The cartoonist's
figure-head of the high-hatted gentle
man in clerical robes now Injuries the
movement by belittlng it, to the JOY, OF
course, of the vets. The need now, in the
opinion of this editor, is for a new figure
head which shall partake more Of the
features of Miss Columbia, national IN
stead of a religious symbol, something
that will represent American citizenship
as a whole. He does not put the League
in the position of John, the forerunner,
when he said, Gle must increase but I
must decrease" It asks rather that the
League keep its ranks intact and join as
a unit in the larger army which needs for
the future all the League has given in the
past, but as a part of much greater
whole.
American citizenship in action has be-
come a fact How best to proclaim that
fact to the world and take advantage of
it seems to be the problem here presented.
CONFUSION OF THOUGHT IN
TRAINED THINKERS
rChri8tiun E11deaUor World, Dean Inge
on Prohibition December 10, 1880, by
ROBERT P. ANDERSON
From a recent book by Dean Inge, Mr..
Anderson quotes a sentence which he
thinks shows "inaccuracy, bias, and pref
udice in every line" The sentence is:
Nothing is more characteristic Of mill
tant professionalism than the enlbittered
cornbats against alcohol and tobacco We
may grant that excess in alcoholic drinks
is very common, and that many lives have
been ruined by it. But moderate con-
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