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MY PARISH-THE WORLD

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the famous 'Chinatown' of San Francisco, saw the opium den in all its loathsome completeness standing next door to the house of shame. Reputable Chinese women were not allowed to accompany their husbands to California, but here were Chinese girls, one in each of many small cabins with sliding doors and windows on the street, constituting the most flagrantly flaunted temptation that we had ever witnessed. In presence of these two object lessons, the result of occidental avarice and oriental degradation, there came to me a distinct illumination resulting in this solemn decision: 'But for the intrusion of the sea, the shores of China and the far East would be part and parcel of our land. We are one world of tempted humanity. The mission of the White Ribbon women is to organize the motherhood of the world for the peace and purity, the protection and exaltation of its homes. We must send forth a clear call to our sisters yonder, and our brothers, too. We must be no longer hedged about by the artificial boundaries of states and nations; we must utter, as women, what good and great men long ago declared as their watchword: "The whole world is my parish and to do good my religion.'

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The Convention at Toronto was our leader's last active work for the World's Union..

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Following Miss Willard's "Summing up of the whole matter" concerning the "Organized Mother-Love" of the World's W. C. T. U., we publish her last message to her White Ribbon sisters the world around -the address which, as President of the Society, she delivered before the Fourth Biennial Convention in Toronto on the morning of October 23, 1897.....

Beloved Comrades from Many Lands:

Nothing more pleasant can be said by old friends as they recount cherished scenes of long ago than the warm-hearted phrase of explanation, "We were brought up together.".... I knew that you were gathering from near and from far; that every continent would be represented in this meeting of which we have all thought so long; that Iceland and New Zealand would meet in this bright auditorium, made fair with flags from many lands. I knew that Oregon and Armenia-brave Oregon, sacred Armenia-would here sit side by side. I knew that the mighty Empire whose center is London, "heart of the world," would be nobly represented, and the blessed Republic, dear to me as the beating of this glad heart, would send its big contingent; that a few prophetic ones from the great wine and beer drinking continent of Europe would learn a new optimism from the cheery Australasian delegates; and that here in the Dominion that has prepared for us with so much beautiful forethought, we should meet this day and feel in our inmost hearts that "We were brought up together.".. and so,.. though the equator divided us until now and the salt sea's brine had risen up to keep us severed-still, by all that is most holy and enduring, "We were brought up together."

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ANNA A. GORDON, President National W. C. T. U., The Beautiful Life of
Frances E. Willard, pp. 147, 148, 159, 163, 164.

In answer to the above would say, Yes. The world has lately undergone the most tremendous upheaval in the history of mankind. Above the ceaseless din and roar of cannon along a two hundred mile front, for more than a quadrennium, we have heard the all pervading American slogan "Make the world safe for democracy." In other words, destroy crowns, dethrone kings, put the ban on idleness and premium on labor, discount the idle rich and exalt the industrious

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WOE TO THE NATIONS UNLESS

poor. If wars must be fought let them be fought in the interests of the whole human race, of equality and equal industrial opportunity. This in brief has been America's message to the world.

There is yet a higher law to be observed, as yet unannounced by any great ruler involved in the late world struggle. That law, however, has been announced by the prophets of history. Briefly stated it is, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you." Again, "Woe unto him that putteth the cup to his neighbor's lips." Woe unto England who for eighty years forced the opium traffic upon China, resulting in a hundred and fifty million victims of the opium curse. Woe unto Germany, the father of brewers, among all nations. Woe unto France, the wine-bibber and distributor of wines to the uttermost parts of the earth. Woe unto Italy, giant exporter of rum. Woe unto America, whose outpourings of liquor have cursed the twelve hundred millions of black and brown peoples in Japan, China, India, Africa, South America, and the Islands of the Sea. Woe unto all nations which have passed through the fiery furnace of modern war unless they evolve from their experiences other lessons than those of mere economy.

The League of Nations properly perfected will be a mighty triumph, but unless the voice of prophets as well as of statesmen is heeded,,there can be no perpetual peace, no lasting progress. That nation only will genuinely and truly prosper "whose builder and maker is God."

VIRGIL G. HINSHAW, Chairman, National Prohibition Committee, 1919.

The time is opportune for a great, aggressive, world-wide movement against the alcoholic drink traffic.....

If weaker nations are to be protected from the brutally strong, weak men and women should be protected from those who would coin their weakness and wickedness into cash.

P. A. BAKER, General Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, Nov., 1918, as reported in the Patriot Phalanx, Edward Clark, Editor.

I come back from my visit to the American army in France thoroughly convinced that WAR PROHIBITION spells the difference today between defeat and victory for the ALLIES. We cannot go on wasting Food and Man Power from the effects of Liquor and expect to win this War. Last winter my wife was in a sanitarium and on several days there was not enough heat, from lack of coal, to keep the institution comfortably warm, yet not a brewery banked its fires, not a saloon went without coal. Hear me, if that thing happens again next winter there will be another Boston Tea Party. God has damned that traffic and He will not pity us very much if we do not

PUT AN END TO IT IN THESE United States!

DANIEL A. POLING, Associate President of the United Society of Christian
Endeavor.

* Words in capitals on one of the Fairbanks Educational Series Monthly Calendar Blotters, 1918.

A REMARKABLE STATE PAPER

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"We are fighting," Mr. Lloyd George declared, "Germany, Austria and the drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these deadly foes is drink.'

It is an open secret that at one time Great Britain was within five minutes of prohibition. But the Traitor Trade used its influence through telegrams, letters, petitions, delegations,.

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When the story of that five minutes is told it will reveal another Temptation on the Mount, but with a different result....

In return for the compromises which the various Governments have made, and the dividends it has drawn, what has drink done to help win the war? The British Government itself shall tell you. I hold here one of the most remarkable state papers ever issued. The title page states that it is a Copy of the Report and Statistics of Bad Time kept in Shipbuilding, Munitions, and Transport Areas. It bears the name of D. Lloyd George ("Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer") with the declaration that it was Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed May 1, 1915, Printed under authority of His Majesty..... It is a Government document and contains the startling story of the prolongation of the war through the loss of time attending every industry upon which victory depends....

And this Government report tells us how the two Kaisers worked together when France was calling for re-inforcements, the drink Kaiser delaying the sailing of British transports and holding back thousands of liberty loving Tommies from the scene of action, while the German Kaiser engaged the French troops. It even states that "It is now taking three times as long to get ships fitted and ready to sail as it did when war broke out.

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Kaiser II made whole transport crews desert; sent firemen on board transports drunk, "making it" as the report says, "impossible to get up full head of steam,

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While whole regiments of Salisbury Plain were forced to drill and march for twelve months without a gun, and brave Tommies at the front were dying by the thousands for lack of shells and large guns to drive back the enemy, the Government ordered its Directors of Munitions to speed the output. The report is here and it tells how, after investigating the munition factories, every director of munitions wired back "A full munitions output depends on the withdrawal of all public house licenses, not only in munitions areas, but through the United Kingdom."

The German Submarine warfare had just begun. It behooved the British Navy to act speedily. The situation is so alarming that Sir Admiral John Jellicoe telegraphs the Directors of Transports for proposals that will facilitate His Majesty's ships. The replies to the Admiral's telegrams are given here. They charge the condition of affairs to drink....

Recently some Tommies behind the trenches whiled away the hours with a debate on "Will England be better or worse after the war?" And they decided that it would be worse. The argument which

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