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The Elkins Inter Mountain
Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia
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Rev. Dr. James Empringham, general secretary of the Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church for ten years, centers the wet-dry controversy by opposing absolute prohibition. Previously superintendent for the Anti-Saloon League of New York, he joined in 1916 on condition of cooperating to eliminate saloons. The convention marks an epoch in the church's conservative temperance history.
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The Rev. Dr. James Empringham, who has become the strong center of the "wet" and "dry" controversy by putting the Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church on record against absolute prohibition, has been the general secretary of that society for the past ten years. Previously he had served as metropolitan district superintendent for the Anti-Saloon League of New York. When in 1916 he was invited by the temperance society to become its secretary, he accepted on the express condition that he was to execute a policy of hearty co-operation with the Anti-Saloon League in its effort to rid the State and the Nation of saloons. This convention, the same marking an epoch in the history of the temperance movement in a church always regarded as conservative and disinclined to take radical positions with respect to temperance policy.
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1916
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Rev. Dr. James Empringham becomes center of wet-dry controversy by leading Church Temperance Society against absolute prohibition; served as Anti-Saloon League superintendent; accepted secretary role in 1916 conditional on saloon elimination cooperation; convention epochs conservative church's temperance history.