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Excerpt from Dry or Die: The Anglo-Saxon Dilemma No age of the world but has furnished its quota of denunciation against alcohol from the reflective men of the time. The Bible, the old est Book in the world, is full of declarations as to its injurious character and the wisdom of let ting it alone; and yet, all through the ages it has menaced the prosperity and destroyed the happiness of the race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Case for Prohibition: Its Past, Present Accomplishments, and Future in America In the general discussion of the question to day scant attention is paid to the possible result of the substitution of some other. Form of alcoholic trade for distribution other than through the saloon. The book tries to show the enormous and evil consequences of the restoration of the trade in alqcholic beverages no matter what the method of distribution. We ask a careful reading of this book, be lieving that it Will lead you to a patient toler ance of the present shortcomings in the eu forcement of a policy Which is really under going a process of evolutionary development. We look forward confidently to that day when alcohol Will be a negligible factor in Amer ican life and When its absence Will be indicated by a greatly enlarged horizon of happiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Clarence T. Wilson was born on April 24, 1872, in Milton, Delaware, the oldest of five children of John Alfred Baynum Wilson, a Methodist minister, and Mary Jefferson. He was of the ninth generation of a family of English-Scotch-Irish background to be born in that part of Delaware.
After attending the Princess Anne, Maryland, high school and Wilmington Conference Academy, Dover, Delaware, he spent a year (1890 - 1891) at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland. Later, having gone west for reasons of health, he received the Ph. B. degree from the University of Southern California in 1896 and, two years later, the Bachelor of Divinity degree from its Maclay College of Theology. He apparently also acquired, in 1897, a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Joaquin Valley College.
While pursuing his studies Wilson engaged in a variety of pastoral activities, receiving his first such appointment as early as 1889, when he was only seventeen. Ordained as a deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church at the age of eighteen and as an elder two years later, he served pastorates at Seaford, Delaware, and Sea Cliff, New York, before moving to California, and thereafter at Pasadena, California (1895 - 1898), San Diego, California (1898 - 1901), Newark, New Jersey (1901 - 1905), and Portland, Oregon (1905 - 1910).
In 1906 Wilson was elected president of the Oregon Anti-Saloon League, and thereafter his life focused in the prohibition movement. In 1910 he was elected general secretary of the Temperance Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church - later, in 1916, renamed the Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals - which under his aggressive leadership became one of the most powerful agencies in the movement. The Methodist Building in Washington, D. C. , located close to the national Capitol and dedicated early in 1924, was planned and built under Wilson's direction as a headquarters for the anti-liquor forces. After the Eighteenth Amendment had been adopted in 1919, he continued his activities vigorously in the effort to secure its full enforcement.
During the 1920's, when prohibition occupied a central position in American politics, he devoted much time to political action, campaigning for congressional candidates pledged to uphold the anti-liquor laws and vigorously opposing Alfred E. Smith in the presidential election of 1928. Wilson's lobbying activities in Washington drew occasional protests from members of Congress, notably from Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, himself a Methodist.
After repeal in 1933 Wilson set out on a new series of nationwide campaigns in the hope of preparing the way for another prohibition effort.
Ill health led to Wilson's retirement in 1936; he settled in Gresham, Oregon. He died on February 16, 1939 in Portland, Oregon, following an attack of uremic poisoning complicated by a heart attack, and was buried there.
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A strict moralist, Clarence Wilson also opposed prizefighting and the use of tobacco.
Clarence T. Wilson was a member of the Simplified Spelling Board and vice-president of the International Reform Federation. He was a Mason and a member of the Odd Fellows Order.
Striking in appearance, with silken goatee, ruddy face, white hair, blue eyes, and pince-nez glasses, Clarence T. Wilson was a fiery speaker and a powerful debater, a passionate and enthusiastic crusader.
On November 27, 1907, Clarence True Wilson married Maude Akin, who had a daughter from the first marriage, Virginia (she was later adopted by Clarence Wilson). The couple also had a daughter, Mary Elizabeth.
Royal Samuel Copeland was an American academic, homeopathic physician and politician.
Alfred Emanuel Smith was an American politician, who was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928.
Maude Akin was married to Arthur Palmer Tifft, by whom she had a daughter, Virginia. On November 27, 1907, she married Clarence True Wilson. The couple had also a daughter, Mary Elizabeth.
