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Edmonton Bulletin

2 Feb 1910

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LEAGUE WILL ASK FOR TOTAL PROHIBITION

Resolutions Which Were Presented to the Temperance and Moral Reform Convention With That Object in View-- More Than One Hundred Delegates Are in Attendance.

That the Temperance and Moral Reform League of Alberta will ask radical measures in connection with temperance legislation in the province at the coming session was apparent from the attitude taken at the annual convention which opened this morning in the First Baptist church with President  W. G. Hunt, of Calgary, in the chair. There were present over a hundred delegates representing every part of the province and the feeling was unanimous in favor of a great curtailment,  if not the entire elimination of the liquor trade in Alberta.
No definite action in this regard was taken at the morning session but the resolutions submitted to the convention and handed over to the various committees for their report, left no doubt as to the attitude of the delegates.

Provincial Plebiscite.

One resolution called upon the provincial government to take a plebiscite throughout the entire province next summer on the question of total prohibition and if such were approved of to act at once upon the will of the people.
Another had in view the asking of the government  for a local option law to cover the entire province  and which could be brought in by a majority vote; the restriction of the importation of liquor into local option districts, heavier penalties for violation, prohibiting the sale of liquor on Good Friday, Christmas day and Thanksgiving; and the separating of the bars from the hotels of the province.
A large number of less important resolutions were also presented. The entire lot will be considered by the committees and recommendations as to those which should be accepted will be made to the convention.

Little Business This Morning.

There was little business this fore noon in addition to the adoption of committees and the presenting of resolutions. A nominating committee was chosen, composed of Dr. McQueen, Rev. T. G. Buchanan,  Mrs. McKinney, Mrs. Craig, M. Evans, Rev. G. R. Laing and J. D. Blayney, and they afterwards submitted their report recommending large committees to deal with the different questions arising throughout the convention.
At twelve o'clock the convention adjourned and the delegates resolved themselves in committees as outlined by the nominating committee.

Those in Atendance.

The delegates who registered this morning were as follows:
W. G. Hunt, Calgary; Geo. W. Webber, Okotoks; E. J. Tate, Ponoka; G. Carlson, Wetaskiwin; J. A. Rowntree, Red Deer; Mrs. G. H. Harvey, Red Deer; J. K. Wilson, Markerville; J. R. Knight, Edmonton; F. J. Earl, Edmonton; John Hillman, Markerville; A. B. Bardal, Markerville; A. D. McDonald, Lamont; Geo. W. Smith, Red Deer; Thos. W. Morden, Pincher Creek; Jas. P. Watson, Hillstown; Wm. Eakin, Content and Ewing; W. Lewis Hall, Thornton; T. J. Johnston, Olds; S. J. Craig, Olds; Mrs. W. A. Skinner, Okotoks; Mrs. M. S. Daly, Olds; Mrs. S. J. Craig, Olds; Mrs. L. C. McKinney, Claresholm; Mrs. M. A. Wiltse, Lone Pine; Geo. B. White, Lone Pine; M. S. Daly, Olds; H. B. Brown, Cardston; J. C. Brown, Granum; J. A. Winslade, Brightview; A. A. Goodhard, Brightview; Radcliffe Clegg, Stoney Plain; Walter Dewhirst, Eastside; Geo. Hutton, Lacombe; Thos. Powell, Lacombe; E. E. Hughes, Olds; Rice Sheppard, Strathcona; G. A. Barker, Granum; C. H. Tuestis, Red Deer; J. D. Blayney, Edmonton; H. Ballantyne, Calgary; F. W. Patterson, Edmonton; F. Wagner, Wetaskiwin; W. G. W. Fortune, Red Deer; W. H. Day, Millet; J. E. Collins, Alix; Alex Reid, Strathcona; T. C. Buchanan, Calgary; Levi Harker, Magrath; D. G. McQueen, Edmonton; Arthur Barner, Red Deer; G. R. Lany, Vegreville; Mrs. W. W. Alton,
Leduc; Mrs. T. A. Norris, Leduc; Wm. Sykes, Killam; M. W. F. Evans, Medicine Hat; H. E. Wannamaker, Claresholm; A. D. Archibald, Ponoka; C. Yockney, Edmonton; Rev. C. A. Myers, Edmonton; Rev. N. J. L. Bergan, Edmonton; S. Slenberg, Viking; Wm. Best, Wabamum;  Dr. Sproule, Edmonton; G. C. Bergman, Erskine; H. Hopkiss, Wabamum; Ella S. Shields, Wabamum; Rev. W. A. Lewis, Norwood; Rev. F. J. Johnson, Clover Bar; A. W. Coone, Calgary; Geo. S. Dong, Namao; N. Deittweiler, Didsbury.