An Issue in Fourteen States
By Editor
THE question of prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicants will be voted upon this fall in the following states: California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Iowa, and New York. In addition to the foregoing states, Ohio, Kentucky, Florida, Arkansas, Maryland, and Indiana are considering the matter of submitting the question of prohibition to the vote of the people, but the matter as yet has not been fully decided. A prohibitory constitutional amendment is before Congress, and thus is the question of prohibition a nation-wide issue. The drink traffic has been a national problem long enough, and we are glad to see it brought to the front as a national issue. Our temperance forces should sink all discussions and differences among themselves entirely out of sight, and rise as one individual to the great work of throttling and destroying this traffic, which is more than anything else the source of the misery, suffering, and the degeneracy that we find in the world. None of our creeds or political affiliations or attachments should be big enough to cast a shadow between us and our duty in this thing that is before us so prominently for this year 1914.