Show takes ground the eleventh annual convention 0 of the national temperance society hold held at saratoga recently represented many different temperance and re organizations state and national therefore a great variety of views concerning methods of 0 work hence the advanced ground taken by that organization as outlined in its resolutions la is most hopeful and encouraging cou raging tor for the speedy formation of a platform moral and civic upon which all temperance and religious forces may stand atan d among the points 11 upon P which the convention declared it belt as heartily agreed are the paramount responsibility of 0 the church which Is advised to use iise only unfermented wine at communion and to refrain from complicity with the liquor evil by its members to make gain out of the the delusion of 0 license high or low prohibition state and national legislative and constitutional as the ideal toward which we are continually to strive the election to office ot of those men only who favor the suppression of the drink traffic le withdrawal ot of support from all political parties that sustain the evil and permission to woman to use h her L r power to the utmost politically as well as in other ways it condemned alcohol aj ai unnecessary and harmful in the healing of 0 disease and the use of intoci cants on oil social occasions and in the preparation of food declared for the tha abolition of 0 the internal revenue system protested against the sale of rum ruin on ellis island and asked that congress allow no national legislation to oppose the effort of any district however small to protect itself from the liquor evil by prohibitory law |