A CLARION CALL From
Delegates Assembled at the 46th Annual Convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. We send out an appeal to all Christian women to help in the fight to abolish the liquor trade—a trade which is the greatest hindrance to the advancement of Christ’s Kingdom. It’s poisonous action on the life germs injures the child ere It is born and thus constitutes a racial menace. The social use of wine blunts the moral sense and debases our mt - hood and our womanhood. The economic waste of nearly eight and a-quarter million pounds each year withdrawn from legitimate industry is a fruitful cause of unemployment, human wastage and misery. The same amount of capital invested in essential trades would employ ten times as many workers. In addition, the strain of caring for the derelicts of strong drink by the Child Welfare Departments, the Borstal Institutions, the prisons and the mental hospitals has brought the national finances almost to breaking point. The whole position constitutes a challenge to the Christian womanhood of this land. Elizabeth B. Taylor, President. Christina Henderson, Secretary-
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White Ribbon, Volume 36, Issue 430, 18 May 1931, Page 6
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