TWELVE REASONS FOR WAR PROHIBITION IN THE U.S.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 273, 18 March 1918, Page 7

TWELVE REASONS FOR WAR PROHIBITION IN THE U.S.

(Articrican Issue). 1. It would save in one year more than 2,ooo,ooo,o<x>dols. now spent for liquors; enough to pay the interest on our seven billion dollar loan for eight years, or td pay the principal in less than four years. 2. It would put out of commission a traffic that has been denounced by the British Premier as a more dangerous foe than German- or Austria. 3. It would disarm an enemy that every year kills, wounds and renders inefficient hundreds of thousands of men who ought to be enlisted in the army, navy, or ranks of industry and make recruiting much less of a problem. 4. It would release for the protection and conservation of our national strength, an army of men who are at present manufacturing a habit-forming drug that eats away the physical and moral fibre of our people. 5 It would stop what is now almost an utter waste of not less than 110 million bushels of grain, and 152 million gallons of molasses; enough, say distinguished economists, to fedd 7,000,000 men for a year. 6. It would remove from the workers of the nation their greatest to efficiency, and place them on a par' with soldiers and sailors to whom liquor cannot be lawfully sold. 7. It would remove from the nation the reproach of depending for revenue upon the debauching of < itizens. 8. It would result, as has everywhere proven true when tried, in a great moral, physical, social and economic Uplift. q. It would save the nation from the insanity of trying to make legally right what is morally, social!), politically, and economically wrong. 10. It would speed the end of the war—ahd all war. 11. It would release and make effective the great spiritual forces of the Church, to a degree hitherto unknown. 12. It would help along the Millenium. The reasons given for the U.S. .ire good for US.