AMERICA AND NO-LICENSE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 292, 3 September 1908, Page 3

AMERICA AND NO-LICENSE.

LECTURE BY MR. EDMONDS. A lecture was delivered at the Christian Chapel, Vivian Street, last evening by Mr. E. T.' Edmonds, B.A. (of America), the subject being ."What about America and tho Prohibition and No-License Movement?" Mr. J. J. Franklyn occupied the chair, and there was a good attendance. The speaker opened by referring to the wide-world character of tho ' temperance movement, and he laid stress on the economic side of the question. . His contention was \that the nation which reached the highest economic efficiency would be. the winner in national conflicts. He mentioned that the great railroad companies in Amorica insisted upon the abstinence of their employees, and especially of those in the operative departments. Ho drew attention to tho wonderful growth of the No-License sentiment'in tho The prohibition'area, he said, was increasing, and since last Presidential election, four years ago, 20,000,000 people had been added to it. The movement had grown rapidly, for Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and NortlV Carolina had come' under the banner. Special attention was paid to the success of prohibition in Maine, and the speaker quoted statistics at length showing the great difference in the crime, insanity, etc., of Maine as compared with Massachusetts.