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has not been a day when there was such an impetus toward a united concentration as there is just now. And we believe this phase of the subject marks the beginning of the end to the greatest reform of the cen tury. The conviction obtains that there have been theorizing and organizing long enough. Let outright and downright work now be in evidence. The end to be accom plished is of vastly greater moment than the prolongation of the life of any particular organization. Let societies and organiza tions perish but let the end toward which they have contributed be their enduring monument. If need be, they can well lose their identity in the unity and concentra tion now becoming universally apparent. E. H. P arkinson , D. D. Chicago.
If the present status of the great prohi bition reform suggests anything it is „the pressing need of concentration upon the part of various organizations in the nation wide movement. The other and many lines of temperance and prohibition effort have certainly led up to this very important one. And now to cling tenaciously to old the ories and form will only occasion delay when great and rapid strides are demanded. The Prohibition Party, the Anti-Saloon League, the W. G T. U. and the numerous social and church temperance societies can well take fresh courage in seeing the cul mination of long continued plan and effort in the nation-wide agitation for prohibi tion. To be sure, some of the workers have had this movement always in mind— they have not swerved from it but «there
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