A Proper Amendment by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 8, 1905

A Proper Amendment.

By Editor

There is now pending in Congress a bill providing for two new states—one composed of Oklahoma and Indian Territories, and one of Arizona and New Mexico. With the Indians of Indian Territory the United States Government has a treaty agreement to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. Unless this prohibition be made binding upon the proposed new state, the Indians, in a very short time, would become the victims of the liquor traffic, and we all know what such a calamity means. Therefore, every one imbued with a spirit of benevolence and a desire to see the Indians prosper, will indorse Senator Gallinger's amendment to the Statehood Bill, which enjoins a continuation of the prohibition treaty for twenty-one years after the admission of the new state into the union. Friends of the measure, who are specially urging its adoption, ask that persons favorably inclined will write to the senators from their respective states urging favorable action. It is certainly a worthy cause.