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VOLUME TOUR
NUJISEH 'IHW'i-NINE
National Inter-Church erance Council Holds Meeting
Aggressive Federation of All Christian Churches by State and Nation Urged to Lead Adbance Mobement to
Complete Triumph of Prohibition Reform —Distinguts..^, Kepresentatibes From Leading Church Denominations.
T
HE second biennial session of the Na
tional Inter-Church Temperance Council
held at Indianapolis, Tuesday and Wed
nesday, November 9, 10, canvassed the
present status of the prohibition reform,
and planned an aggressive co-operate
propaganda for the carrying on of Na
tion-wide agitation in favor of “total ab
stinence for the individual, the absolute
annihilation of the liquor traffic by the State,” and
the securing from the United States Government of
“every effective means possible to aid the states and
sub-divisions thereby in carrying out this policy.”
The executive officers of the council chosen at
Pittsburg, January 31, 1907, were re-elected as fol
lows: President, Dr. Samuel Dickie, member of the
Methodist Episcopal Temperance Society; Vice Pres
ident, Joshua Levering, member of the Temperance
Committee of the Baptist Church, Baltimore, Md.;
Corresponding Secretary, Charles Scanlon, Field Or
ganizer for the Temperance Committee of the Pres
byterian Church, Pittsburg; Treasurer, Dr. Homer J.
Hall, Secretary American Temperance Board of the
Church of Christ; Financial Secretary, H. D. Fulton,
Canonsburg, Pa.
Officials representing the following thirteen demom
inations participated in the conference, and every
hour of the two days’ session was filled with inter
est and suggestive addresses: Methodist Episcopal,
Presbyterian Church of North America, United Pres
byterian, Southern Presbyterian, Reform Presbyte
rian, Congregational, Methodist Protestant, Evangel
ical Lutheran, Friends, African Methodist Episcopal,
Disciples of Christ and Unitarian.
In the absence of President Samuel Dickie, Hon.
Felix T. McWhirter, of Indianapolis, called the coun
cil to order Tuesday morning. Rev. E. C. Dinwiddie,
of Washington, D. C., Chairman of the Temperance
Committee of the General Synod of the Lutheran
Church, was chosen Secretary of the Biennial Ses
sion.
Over one hundred delegates were chosen from the
above denominations, and all parts of the country
were represented.
Wednesday afternoon the council adopted the fol
lowing report of the Committee on Resolutions as
the statement of its attitude upon current phases of
the liquor question:
Resolutions Approve President Taft’s Effort to Sup
press Opium Trade.
“In harmony with the position taken by our constit
uent bodies we declare ourselves unalterably com
mitted to the doctrine of total abstinence for the in
dividual, the duty of the absolute annihilation of the
liquor traffic by the State, and the urgent necessity
that the United States Government provide every
effective means possible to aid the states, and sub
divisions thereof, in carrying out this policy.
“The call by President Taft of a conference of Na-
ATLANTA, GA.. NOVEMBER 18. 1909.
tions, to meet at The Hague in the near future, to
aid China, and other nations in their efforts to sup
press the opium trade, meets our most hearty ap
proval, and we pledge our steadfast support to this
movement; and we request that the secretary of this
council do all in his power to have this matter pre
sented to the leadeis of the churches so far as pos
sible in every country, to the intent that the united
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voice of Christendom be now heard in behalf of this
movement.
Council Urges Local and State Federation of All
Churches for More Effective Union Against
Liquor Traffic.
“We urge that the plan of this council be extended
to, and made effective in every town and city, by the
federation of all our cnurches, for active and aggres
sive temperance work. And to this end, we invite a
careful consideration of the possibility of establish
ing co-operative lecture courses upon temperance and
other reforms, similar to the Chautauqua circuits,
when the best talent of the world is placed within
the reach of all at lowest cost and imallest waste of
time, and we recommend that the general officers of
this council undertake, if possible, to test this plan
in one state, believing that if it can be made effective
in one state, it may easily be extended to all.
“Large municipal posters containing the latest
word of science upon the harmful effects of intoxicat
ing drink, and the physical degeneracy caused by al
coholism, are being extensively used by the city gov
ernments of France, England, and Australia, in such
fashion that no one who can read may escape the
knowledge and warning. We earnestly commend this
wise method of temperance education, and urge that
it be adopted wherever possible.
Asks Congress for Establishment of Prohibition Zones
Around Indian Reservations.
“We urge upon congress the establishment of pro
hibition zones surrounding the Indian reservations in
the territories within the United States, as embodied
in the Hamilton-Owen bill pending before the appro
priate committees of congress.
“We re-affirm our belief in the value and desira
bility of an exhaustive official inquiry, by authority
of congress, into the effects of the alcoholic
liquor traffic on society in its various relations,
and in the different departmens of the government.
Why Science is Endorsing Total Abstinence From
Alcoholic Drink.
“In visiting the schools it is sometimes my sad duty
to go to those for mentally deficient children. To
such an one I went in the city of St. Louis. It was
a private institution for idiotic children. In reply to
my question as to the causes of the condition of these
children, the superintendent replied. Tn almost every
case the cause is the drink habit of the father and
mother. These children are from some of the wealth
iest homes of St. Louis.
“In an ungraded room in the city of Boston, I found
thirty-five children, all foreign born. In answer to
my question as to how many of these children were
mentally deficient, the teacher replied: ‘I think there
are seven in this room.’ ‘Could you give me the causes
of this mental deficiency?’ ‘That would be a little
difficult,’ was her reply. ‘These classes all closely in
termarry, but all of these children use the home
made wines as did their fathers and mothers. That
of course is one of the main causes.’
“In the city of Springfield, Mass., I went at the
invitation of the teacher, to see a room full of little
Italian boys take their baths. The thin emaciated
bodies vividly reminded me of the pictures of the
India famine sufferers. I asked, ‘Why are they so
thin and emaciated?’ ‘lnsufficient food,’ was the re
ply. ‘These children will soon go home to their
lunch, which will consist of bread and some kind of
home-made wine or beer. They will come back to
school so stupid that for the first hour after lunch
eon, we can do little or nothing with them.’
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