What a Labor Leader Says About Alcohol

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 23, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 12.

What a Labor Leader Says About Alcohol

TERENCE V. POWDERLY, of Knights of Labor: “I know that I am right; I know that in refusing to even touch a drop of strong drink, I was and am right. In refusing to treat another to that which I do not believe to be good for myself to drink, I know I am right. In refusing to associate with men who get drunk, I know I am right. In not allowing a rum seller to gain admittance into the Order of Knights of Labor, I know that I was right. In advising our assemblies not to rent halls or meeting rooms over drinking places, I know that I was right. I have done this from the day my voice was first heard in the council halls of our order.”