The American Prohibition Year Book for 1909
“The American Prohibition Year Book for 1909,” price 25 cents, published by the Lincoln Temperance Press, 92 La Salle St., Chicago, Ill. It is bound in both cloth and paper. Cloth, 50 cents; paper, 25 cents, post-paid. It has for its contents the regular almanac common to year books, 30 pages on Benefits of Total Abstinence, showing the physical and moral evils of liquor-using; deals with the consumption and cost of drink; the Economics of the Liquor Traffic; Legislation; Results of Legislation; Courts and Decisions; the Attitude of the Church Toward Prohibition; the Fact That Prohibition Is a Great National Problem; the Records of Political Parties Upon the Question; Political Action; Election Returns; Organizations and Periodicals Connected with the Temperance Work; and a good index. This is the tenth year of the book. It is one of the great authorities on this subject in America. It will be of great help to ministers, lecturers, temperance workers, religious teachers, Sunday and Sabbath-schools, young people's societies; in fact, working men, legislators, and many others. Some of the very latest scientific facts on abstinence, the use or non-use of alcohol are brought out. All the various plans of dealing with the liquor traffic are discussed more or less. It considers the three notable articles by Dr. William Smith in McClure's Magazine, and shows how the people spend over two billion dollars annually for alcoholic drinks.