Show tk tak advanced ground the eleventh annual convention ot of the national temperance society held at saratoga recently represented many lauy temperance and religious r organizations state and national therefore a great variety of drews concerning methods of work hence the ground taken by that organization as outlined in its resolutions Is ili most moat hopeful and an c cou raging tor for the speedy formation of a platform moral and clyle civic upon which all temperance and religious forces may stand eland among the points upon which the conven elon declared itself as heartily agreed are the paramount responsibility of the church which Is advised to use only unfermented wine at communion and to retrain from complicity with the liquor evil by allowing to make gain out of the the delusion of license high or low prohibition state and national legislative and constitutional as the ideal toward which ne ie aro are continually to strive the elect election foa to office of those men only who favor the suppression of the drink traffic withdrawal of support from all political parties that sustain the evil and permission to woman to use her bar power to the utmost politically as well as in other ways it condemned alcohol as unnecessary and harmful in the healing of disease and the use of cants on social occasions and in the preparation of food declared tor for the abolition of the inte revenue ss system protested against the tha sale of rum on eills island and asked that congress allow no national legislation to oppose the ettoil of any district however small email to protect itself from the liquor evil by prohibitory law |