The Rising Tide of Prohibition

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 24, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 28.

The Rising Tide of Prohibition

THAT the temperance sentiment is strong and vigorous among the people of the United States is shown by the flood of petitions for constitutional prohibition that constantly pour in upon Congress. The Evening Star, of Washington, speaks of these petitions as “fairly flooding the Senate.” And the Rev. Joseph Cook, in his first Monday lecture of this season, sums up the situation of a part of the Western States in these words: “Constitutional prohibition is a rising tide, and has already submerged Kansas and Iowa, and very nearly Ohio.” As emancipation was the only effectual remedy for slavery, so prohibition is the only cure for intemperance.