WORLD-WIDE PROHIBITION.
National isolation is dead. The tendency of the times is toward a rational internationalism. This condition has been largely brought about by improved methods of transportation and transmission, together with the demands of commerce. It is increasingly true of the political world as it is of the human body -when one member suffers all the other members suffer with it. Whatever degrades one nation lowers the ethical standards of all. “I am a man; nothing that concerns man is foreign to me.” To aid others is more than a civic privilege. It is a moral obligation. Appeals for aid, therefore, must he heeded. Alcoholic beverages are a world-wide evil, and. being such, call for a worldenveloping remedy. Nothing save thoroughgoing Prohibition is such a remedy. It is a civic duty not only to prescribe, but apply this remedy. Worldwide Prohibition is the corollary, the terminus ad quern, of all world wide temperance effort. There is no safe stopping point short of that goal. Exchange.
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White Ribbon, Volume 26, Issue 305, 18 November 1920, Page 7
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