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N A T I O N A L W O M A N ' S C H R I S T I A N
T E M P E R A N C E U N I O N ,
The President's Address
Reported by Harriet S, Pritchard,
Mrs. Lillian M, N, Stevens, National
President, delivered a magniflcent address
on Friday, October 31st, at the
National W, C. T. U. Convention, Asbury
Park, N, J, It covered 39 pages
of small type when printed in pamphlet
form and each page is a storehouse
of splendid facts and suggestions.
After paying tribute to the
guests from otner lands and welcoming
them to our councils and fellowships,
she called attention to the wonderful
progress made in various ways
since the centennial year 1876, when
Newark, N. J,, was the hostess city.
Only 23 states were then organized.
New Jersey had then 14 local unions
—now 300. New York had 37 unions,
diy, and was no doubt willing to cooperate
with the W. C, T, U.) Congressman
Hobson has reintroduced it
twice since then, inserting the words
"import," as well as "export," and
later "tood," as well as "beverage,"
for the liquor men intend to make
alcohol into foods, if defeated in selling
longer as a beverage. The Hobson
Resolution is quoted. It is headed:
"Sixty-third Congress, firstSes­
now 975, Oregon 4 unions, now 180,
Then we had scores of local unions, sion, H. J. Res, 117, In the House
now we have thousands. The treasurer's
report that year showed receipts
of Representatives August 5, 1913.
Joint Resolution, Proposing an Amend­
to be 1657,65, The last year s ment to the Constitution prohibiting
report showed receipts to be $108,277,- the sale and importation lor sale of
93, and we are still forging ahead, I beverages or foods containing alcohol,"
Then follows the resolution,
venture to say that no organization
in all the world does so large an A few months ago, the Anti-Saloon
amount of work with so small an League, through its National Superintendent,
P. A, Baker, D.D,, declared
amount of money as does the W. C.
T, LT, She declared that New Jersey that it was time for a National Campaign
for National Prohibition, and
has furnished its full quota of W. C,
T, U, leaders, and no state has a that the League would soon enter
more devoted constituency. She called actively into this movement. The
attention to the broad blue ocean Christian Endeavorers in their great
waving its welcome at the very doors convention at Los Angeles, in July of
of the auditorium and quoted what
the women sing:
"New Jersey's shores are bonnie.
this year, reiterated the declaration
of two years ago and declared for
"National Prohibition and an Amendment
Kissed by the wind-lashed wave.
to the Constitution of the
And beneath her sea-hemmed mantle
Her heart beats true and brave,"
United States." The General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church and
She regrets that New Jersey is not
a prohibition state as yet, but praised
the courage of the W, C. T, U,, and
joins them in their meaningful state
motto, "New Jersey shall be redeemed,"
and hoped that our coming may
lelp them outlaw the manufacture
and sale of strong drink, and so help
usher in the daj' of "National Constitutional
Prohibition," We have always
advocated that.
After relating all that Miss Willard
saciiflced for the W, C, T, U,, she described
how it was that she, herself,
was urged by our Father to issue
the proclamation in 1911, ending it
as follows, alter speaking of the
struggle in Maine: "The uncertainly
was almost unbearable; but after all
I knew that whatever came would be
only an incident in the great onmarching
of God's truth, as embodied
in the principle and the law of prohibition.
I saw the gleaming of prohibition
sentiment all the way from Mt,
Kathadin in the east to Mt. Shasta
in the west; from the pine forests of
the north to the palmetto groves of
the south, and in the name of the
Woman's Cliristian Temperance
Union the world around, in the last
moments of the last meeting of the
mighty campaign, I sent out this call:
"To America, the birthplace of the is comparatively harmless, she quoted or are its victims—attention was called
to the change of opinion in regard follows:
local. State, National and World's a few opinions from eminent authorities
showing the dangerous nature to tbe necessity of the social evil. An The attitude of the Woman's Chris­
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, we hereby proclaim amid the and effect of these so-called lighter incident was given as follows: In tian Temperance Union on all questions
which bear upon the sanctity of
smoke of the second great hattie of and comparatively harmless drinks. the House of Commons it was debated
as to the use of the whipping-post the home is well known. For years
Maine, in the home of Neal Dow and The support of Hobson's Amendment
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call the worth West der the ferent an prohibition.
today's destroy to
fore, for a saloonless nation in 192U,
and that Congressman Hobson, of Ababa
ma, was to introduce a National
Constitutional Prohibition Amendment
on the opening of Congress, December
4, 1911. (She did not mention that
Congressman Hobson had been working
in Maine to help keep that State
other church organizations and temperance
societies have endorsed the
movement, and the question comes to
us, "What plans shall we formulate
at this convention in accordance with
our past declarations, for doing our
part toward securing National Constitutional
Prohibition?" No other society
is so well equipped as ours for active,
systematic temperance work. (Then
was specified and enumerated all the
steps by which the work is carried on
THE CHRISTIAN NATION. Vol. 69.
frcm local to National, through every
state, territory, canal zone, Philip­
mentioned the Kaiser of Ger­
Speaking of royal abstainers, she
pines and Alaska; the different many, Ferdinand of Bulgaria, his
boards, committees, plans, papers,
headquarters, etc, an unparalleled
equipment to do organization, educational
and legislative work, which has
been strengthened by the enfranchisement
of women. She declared the
liquor traffic is doomed. The tree that
is girdled dies. We make no distinction
between distilled, fermented or
malt liquors.
We believe the bill introduced in
Congress June 21, 1913, by Senator
Works of California, is in the interest
of the breweries and wineries, and
should not receive the support of temrerance
people.
Inasmuch as the claim is made that
the use of fermented or malt liquors
Yost, State W, C. T. U. president,
where 92,000 more voted against the
liquor traffic than for it. Tennessee
was the next state mentioned, where
Governor Hooper issued a proclamation
calling the Legislature to meet
October 13, for the suppression ol
the rebellious liquor interests who are
against the sacred laws of the sovereign
state. In this matter there is
no party politics, Ex-Governor Patterson,
who was so in league with the
liquor interests at the time of the killing
of Senator Carmack, has been miraculously
converted, is pledged to a
life of total abstinence, has declared
that he will uphold state prohibition,
and will work for Constitutional Prohibition
in the Nation, Arkansas has
enacted a law that no licenses shall
be granted unless in answer to a petition
signed by the majority of the
white residents living within the city
or town.
She explained that the seeming increase
of revenue from spirits during
the past year was due to the forcing
cf liquors out of the bonding houses
where they had been stored perhaps
for years, and the Government tax
had then to be paid, whether the liquor
was sold or not. There is said
to be enough whiskey now on hand to
meet the present demand for two and
a half years.
The prohibition states are as follows:
Maine, Kansas, North Dakota,
Georgia, Oklahoma, Mississippi, North
Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia.
She called attention to the Webb-
Kenyon Interstate Liquor Bill, the
passge of which, over the veto of
President Taft, was one of the year's
greatest victories.
In speaking at length of "total abstinence,"
after mentioning its wonderful
spead, especially among people
in high places, she mentioned the
present administration, specially Mr.
and Mrs. Bryan, who will neither
drink liquor themselves nor offer it
to others; of Vice-President and Mrs,
Marshall, Speaker and Mrs, Champ
Clark, Secretaries Garrison and Daniels,
and Attorney-General MoReynolds,
the latter expressing himself
in favor of legislation in Illinois
which will forbid the sale of liquors
within five miles of a military or
naval reservation.
late mother. Princess Clementine
of Saxe-Coburg, the present King and
Queen of Sweden and Queen Sophia;
Victor Emmanuel III. of Italy, Queen
Wilhelmina of Holland, and her mother,
Queen Emma, and King Alphonso
of Spain. (The King's mother is also
a total abstainer), "On the side of
temperance are science, health, efliciency,
morality and economy," She
enumerated some of the papers and
magazines that have lately given columns
to articles against Alcohol and
Tobacco,
In speaking of the "White Slave
Traflic"—which, by the way, it was
decided to call "The Traflic in Women,"
as women of all shades of col­
dral Saints Peter and Paul, Chicago."
The Vice Commission of Oregon gave
out eleven reasons against segregation
which were enumerated, also the
action of Governor West in compelling
the withdrawal by Mayor Gray of
Portland, of his instructions to the
Chief of Police to permit segregation
in that city. United States Judge Van
Fleet, in sentencing the California
white slavers on September 17, declared
that licensed liquor selling
wrought the ruin of two nineteen year
old girls, wrecked two homes and
covered four families with shame and
disgrace. Then was enumerated a
host of preventive and reformatory
agencies which are at work to save
the victims of this dreadful practice
and to punish the guilty.
Woman Suffrage was then taken
up, showing its wide reaching power.
How, in suffrage states, prohibition
is being made the law in more and
more towns and cities, la Wyoming,
liquor has been driven out of
nine-tenths of the state, and in Utah
every county but one has outlawed it.
Within four years after suffrage was
granted in Colorado, the number of
piohibition towns were quadrupled. In
the State of Washington, fifty-oneof
the towns have voted out the saloon,
and every town that has voted in
Oregon since the granting of suffrage,
has gone dry. In California in
the two years of suffrage, the prohibition
towns have increased from 200
to 675, The defeat of suffrage in
some states is directly traceable to
the work of the liquor interests. She
spoke at length of the marvelous victory
in Illinois. The suffrage states
are as follows: Wyoming, Colorado,
Utah, Idaho, Washington, California,
Oregon, Kansas, Arizona, Alaska and
Illinois. In the following states the
suffrage amendment will be voted in
1914: Montana, Nevada, North Dakota
and South Dakota. The Amendment
has passed one house in the
following states and must pass the
other: Iowa, New Jersey, New York
and Pennsylvania. A joint resolution
for Woman Suffrage has been introduced
in Congress. Four million women
can now vote for president, and
should it carry in four more states,
nearly one-fifth of the next electoral
vote for president will come from
suffrage states.
She called attention to the strenuous
efforts made by liquor associations
against "Anti Canteen,'' and
said, that while we should be watchful
we need not fear at least while
the Congressional Committee on
Military Affairs is made up as it is
now.
She spoke of the work of the
Chinese Government against opium,
and the promised co-operation of the
British government, of the wholesale
trade in India, but showed that the
Anti-Opium Congress at the Hague
last July gives reason to believe that
next December all countries will have
ratified the proposition tending to
control international traflic in opium
and kindred narcotic drugs. Thirtyeight
Powers have now signed the original
contract.
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