Ex-Senator Blair and the International Reform Bureau by W. A. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 2, 1909

Ex-Senator Blair and the International Reform Bureau

By W. A. C.

It may be of interest to the reader to know that the author of the famous Sunday-Rest bill of 1888 and 1890 is the president of the International Reform Bureau of Washington, D. C., of which Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts is superintendent. The current number of the organ of this Bureau, the Twentieth Century Quarterly, under date of Sept. 21, 1909, says: “Ex-Senator Blair is more than a nominal president. He has done great service in the recent hearing on the Burkett Anti-Gambling bill, and will develop a law department to aid all reform societies in drawing bills and enforcing laws whenever a sufficient endowment or a yearly pledge is provided.”

Remembering the part Mr. Blair took in these matters in the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, this information is of particular interest. W. A. C.