Temperance and Religious Liberty Campaign

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 16, 1908

Temperance and Religious Liberty Campaign

THERE is going on at the present time in the District of Columbia a campaign in behalf of temperance and the enactment of laws to enforce the better observance of Sunday. It has seemed wise to those in charge of our work here to inaugurate a campaign in behalf of temperance and religious liberty. Accordingly suitable matter has been prepared dealing with these two important interests, and the whole city has been districted, with a view to its systematic distribution. The distribution of this literature has already begun, and it is our belief that much good will be accomplished thereby. The literature consists of a pamphlet of sixteen pages entitled “Prohibition and Sunday Legislation,” and a tract of four pages entitled “The Liquor Traffic and Prohibition.” These present in clear, forcible language our position regarding the liquor traffic and our unalterable opposition to religious legislation of any kind whatsoever. The first order for these publications called for twenty thousand of each; and the agitation of the Sunday-law proposition throughout the District will insure more of a consideration of the principles contained in these pamphlets than they would otherwise have received. Whether the enactment of Sunday laws during the present session of Congress will be forestalled or not, the people of the District and the members of Congress will have had an opportunity to study the principles involved in the matter.