CHURCH TEMPERANCE SOCIETY
   A national organization of the Episcopal Church in the United 
States for the promotion of temperance. It was founded in New York 
in 1881, on the lines which the Church of England Temperance Society 
had been pursuing for ten years previously. Its president is the 
presiding bishop of the Church.

The society stands for a policy of high license as opposed to 
prohibition, and has done effective work through legislative 
channels. It has also endeavored to provide substitutes for the
saloon, the "Squirrel Inn," on the Bowery, in New York City, 
being the most notable example. In the same city it maintains 
lunch-wagons, and has built and maintained seventeen free
ice-water fountains. In connection with the society's work 
there is a Church Temperance Legion, which provides moral,
 civic, and military training for boys.

Source:  The New International Encyclopaedia
Copyright:  1902, 1903, 1904, 1905
Publisher:  Dodd, Mead and company--New York
Volumes:  Total of 21 volumes
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Transcribed by Miriam Medina
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