p. 19 | Temperance News Items

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 30, 1914

Temperance News Items

THE Iowa Liquor Dealers’ Association passed resolutions suggesting that manufacturers of moving picture films be requested not to make pictures showing barrooms and wine rooms with persons in stages of intoxication, and the attendant evil results.

Eighteen editors of Texas newspapers have formed the Texas Prohibition Press Association. Each member agrees to do all he can to further the cause of prohibition.

Nineteen saloons in Philadelphia have closed, making no application for renewal of license. The decline of the liquor business is given as the reason for this voluntary retirement.

Twenty-one saloons were put out of business recently at Madison, Wis., by councilmanic action.

A petition containing 112,101 names calling for the submission to the voters of the State of Washington at the November election of a State-wide prohibition law has been filed. Under the law thirty-two thousand signatures would have been sufficient.

There has been filed with the secretary of state in Colorado a petition for a constitutional amendment for State-wide prohibition to be voted for at the regular election in November. The petition contained almost thirty-two thousand signatures, about twelve hundred more than were necessary.

Petitions are being circulated in Virginia in behalf of a State-wide prohibition election in September. The prospects are said to be favorable in behalf of prohibition.

The friends of temperance are not the only ones to use the plan of writing letters to their Congressmen asking support. On May 6, a letter was mailed by the secretary of the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association of America to the bankers of the United States, calling attention to the Hobson amendment for nation-wide prohibition. It urges business relations and mutual financial interests as reasons for opposing the amendment, and closes thus: “We therefore urge you to wire and write to the Congressman of your district protesting against the Hobson resolution. Ask him to work and vote against the passage of this confiscatory and destructive measure. Quick action is necessary.”