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Show WAGES WAR ON LIQUORJRAFHe Legislative Superintendent National Na-tional Temperance Society Visits Salt Lake. DETAILS THE WORK OF HIS ORGANIZATION Delivers an Address at the First Methodist Chnrch Sunday Sun-day Night. Last eenlng at the First M. E. church Rev. O. R. Miller of Washington, D. C, field secretary and legislative superintendent superin-tendent of the National Temperance society, so-ciety, gave an address on "Good Tiding! from the National Capital.'' In which he told of the temperance educational v.rk of his society all over the country and also told of the passage of many laws by Congress along tho lino of temperance and otti. r moral reforms, Concerning the educational work of the National Temperance Tem-perance society, Rev. Mr Miller spoke as follows Work of the Society. The Xatioitul Temperance society was organized or-ganized In 1 l.v s.irne of the foremost C'hrln-tlan C'hrln-tlan men ot tho country. lion. Wllllum K. Dodge, tho famoix Christian merchant, and phllanllir..l-t .f New York, was Its flrnt president, and so continued for eighteen year.", until his death. The- primary ohject of the society was to create and circulate a sound temperance literature which would promote the cause of total abstinence and concentrate the temperance tem-perance and Christian sentiment of the Nation Na-tion against the drink hahlt and the drink traffic, and the BOClSty h;ia had a lurge part In helping to niaku liquor drinking unix.putar and tho saloon disreputable, Tho society la lien-partisan and non-sectarian. Battled for Forty Years. For forty years the society ha-n .een fur-nlshlns fur-nlshlns Inspiration and ammunition for every orcanlsatlon and all who have been battling uKaln.-t the drink SVll It has provided whole-Ome whole-Ome books for the library, papers for the family circle. pamphlets for workers and tracts for the iniiss.-M in doing ibis It has prepared and Issued at great expense over different publications and printed and circulated cir-culated over one billion pages of temperance literature, : ndlng them out llko "leaves for tlie healing of the Nation " and In thU and Its missionary work the society huj distributed nearly I'J.eOO.LiOO Home Missionnry Work. The Nutlonal Temperance society's home a.lsslonary work consists. In part, us follows' First In distributing literature In prisons, hospitals umong railroad employees and luni txTmc-n In the Northwest and in other needful places. Second In supplying special literature to pastors, edltcrs, lecturers and home missionary mission-ary s Third In furnishing libraries and literature for camps, army posts, ships of tho navy, etc. For years the society has waged an Incessant war against the sale ot drink In the army, and has pi Inted and circulated millions of pages of literature among the soldiers In the interest of total abstlnsnce and sobrlsty, Fourth In sending literature to educational Institutions T.. oer .j-i stubnls In theological theo-logical seminaries it has gien a copy of "Gospel Temperance," a booh of '.'." pages Many donations ..f lk . nn.1 papers hae been sent to academies, colleges and universities In the S-.uth. Fifth -In Aolng temperance work among the ree.lmen of the South A volume of t 2 0 pages, by different writers upon various phases of tho temperance Question, has been sent to over 7000 colored ministers In the South. Other Movements Started. It ms also tho National Temperance society that started tho movement for quarterly Sun-duy-srhool temperance lessons: temperanco teaching In public schools; stricter lemperanca qtialllU-atlons for all civil service candidates! the api-olntm.nl by the 11. .u e ..t" Representatives Representa-tives In lt7i of a regular "committee on alcoholic liquors' the twentieth century World-wide pledge signing crusade. In which th society sent out free over 3,000,000 pledges and 8,000,000 pages Of temperance literature, In response to requests from temperance workers all over the world Its Legislative Work. As to the legislative work of the society, Mr. Miller said "Th ro have been few sessions ses-sions of Congress In the last forty years In which tho society has not been urging reslrlc-Uv. reslrlc-Uv. t mperari. e n,eaiireM, furnishing data f'.i Congressmen and Senators, and In this way, and by the personal efforts of Its leglslutlv,. repres.-ntatl v . bus helped secure the possago ot many temperanco bills' Impoitant Bills Passed. Seeral Important bills passed by Congress were drafted or Initiated by this society: First The bill to prevent llquor-se;ing within with-in one mil") ( the National Soldiers' homo In tho District of Columbia Second The bill passed In 1SS1 forbidding the hale of all Intoxicating liquors in post exchanges ex-changes located In prohibition territory, and prohibiting the salo of all distilled llquoro In all army posts. Third The Interstate liquor traffic bill, known a.-i the ' orlglnul package bill" of 1SJ0. to pruhlbP. the shipping of liquor In tho original orig-inal package In prohibition territory Fourth The passage by the Senate of the rr.easuin ratifying the treaty to protect the native races of Kongo against the while man s rum This society has also had a largn purt In helping to secure the passage bv Congress of several temperance measures Initiated by others. Drove Liquor From Capitol. Mr. Miller afso told of several other im- f. ..riant measures which have been paased by ' 'ongress. uuch as a hill to drlv liquor li-quor selling out of the capltol building and out of Immigrant stations, and a bill to slop American traders shipping liquor to the New Hebrides islands, etc Mr Milh r mentioned several other tem-perance tem-perance and reform organizations which have representatives ot Washington working for the passage of p. .n! laws hy Congress, with which the National Temperance Tem-perance BOClct co-operates He especially commended the good work of Reform Bureau, YV. C T. I", and Anti-Saloon league. Bills Pending Before Congress. He said that tiu- National Temperance society Is pressing before the country and before Congress the following Important measures : A national Inquiry commission bill to ln-vestlgato ln-vestlgato the effects of liquor on the moral. Industrial and i-.llil.-al affalm of the Nation; a bill to strp the Issuing by the Government Of Pteders liquor tax receipts In no-llcenso or prohibition territory; a bill requiring internal revenue collectors to furnish crtllled copies of Fleral liquor tax receipts to any one re-questlng re-questlng them. bill to prohibit tho sale of liquor In tho District of Columbia; the Mc-i Mc-i 'umber bill to suppress liquor-selling In old soldiers' homos and In all buildings owned by the i tilted .-''"i Government; the Hepburn-Dol Hepburn-Dol liver Interstate liquor bill, to protect no-llcense no-llcense towns against outside rum-sellers; a bill to suppress llQUOr-selllng In all the ' Indian In-dian country " of Alaska, prohibition as a condition con-dition of Statehood for Indian Territory-; a bill restricting tho salo of patent medicines containing a large per cent of alcohol; the submlesl. .n bj ('..ntr. ss to the various States of an amendment to the l'nlte.1 States Con-tltution, Con-tltution, forever prohibiting the mnnufai ture, sale or Importation of all Intoxicating liquors, a National Interstate antl-clgaretto law At the conclusion of tho services and as the congregation filed out, petitions to Congress for tho passing of anti-cigarette law was signed by the gentlemen and many of the ladles Mr Miller Hpoke along the same lines for a few minutes at the morning service of tho First Presbyterian Presby-terian church. |