Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-02
ASK AID FOR TEMPERANCE
PROHIBITION FORCES WANT AN
INVESTIGATION.
Appeal to the President of the
United States-Two Meetings
Held Yesterday.

| President Roosevelt will be asked for
aid by the temperance forces of the Dis
| trict of Columbia in the near future. as a
result of a mass meeting held last evening
| in Bethany Chapel 18th and c streets.
| The chief executive will be requested to
name commission to investigate the
consequent results of the liquor traffic
| throughout the country.
An appeal to Congress to pass a bill
| prohibiting the sale of liquor in the Dis
| trict of Columbia viii also be made, as a
| result of another meeting yesterday after
noon III Temple Baptist Church, 10th and
| N streets.
| At the meeting in Bethany Chapel rep
| resentatives of practically every temper
ance organization in the city were pres
ent and promised corporation In the gen.
eral movement to federate the local
forces and combine for an attack on the
liquor traffic: Rev. Zed H. Copp,. chief
probation officer of the Juvenile Court.
presented the resolutions gaming for the
aid of President Roosevelt. He pointed
out that the President appointed COM
mission to investigate the conditions in
the packing houses, that he directed an
investigation of the housing conditions in
the National capital and has taken other
similar steps, and he is now asked to look
into liquor traffic conditions.
Demonstration at White House.
A resolution was adopted at the Beth
any Chapel meeting for a meeting
of the representatives of all the temper
ance societies of the District to plan
demonstration. Mr.. Copp announced to-
day that he will issue the invitations to-
| morrow to all the local societies asking
| them to send representatives to the COM
mittee meeting, which will probably be
held Thursday next. At that time plans
will be made for a concerted demonStra-
| ton before the White House.
Mr.. Copp called the meeting to order
! last evening shortly after o'clock. an
nouncing that it had been arranged to
| promote a closer alliance between local
organizations o i.i; s working for TEMPERANCE:
| Mrs. Clinton Smith, head of the District
w. c. t. L. forces, was the next speaker.
She pledged the support of 1000 members
and LOCO sympathizers of the w c. T. u.
in the fight against the liquor traffic.
| N. E. Vowles. high chief ruler of the
organization said that it believed in help
| ing the man who has fallen into the gut
ter through the use of liquor. It's local
| members number nearly 1000, he said
| and its national membership Is more than
$4,000. AS to the aims Of the Personal
| Liberty League. Mr.. Vowles declared that
| the limits of personal liberty and privilege
are reached when those liberties interfere
| WIN society. 1ntemperance, he added,
does that.
In the Baby State.
The success of the fight for prohibition
in the baby state Of the Union was told
by Mrs. Abbie B. Hillerman, head of the
w. c. T. U. of Oklahoma. In three
places, she said, the fight for temperance
was waged. First. when the statehood
bill was up in Congress the temperance
|
/ but failed; second the fight was carried
| to the constitutional convention, but its
! members turned the question over to the
people. Then came the third fight at the
election. and there the cause of temper
| ance prevailed Similar results. she hopes,
will be noted in the District of Columbia.
Capt. ]. c. Daley of the ninth police
| precinct advocated a campaign Of educa-
| ton as the most effective means to fight
| the liquor traffic.
The serving of wine at the Bryan dinner
| at the Raleigh Hotel was the subject of
comment by John r. Mshoney of tn :
| Prohibition Crusaders. He pointed out
| that encouragement may be derived from
| the number of wineglasses, including that
of Mr.. Bryan, turned down at that festive
| board.
| That the wave of prohibition which has
| been sweeping oves the country recently,
| carrying one state after another into the
| prohibition column, will have effective re-
1
was the opinion expressed by Albert Shoe
maker of the Anti-Saloon League.
| William F. Downey of the Catholic To-
| tai Abstinence Union pointed out the suf-
fering resulting from the use of liquor,
and declared that, in his opinion. 30 per
cent of the poverty existing in the Dis
trict is caused by excessive drink.
Subjected to Criticism.
| J.'W. Tull of the International Order of
Good Templars laid the responsibility of
much of the results of the local liquor
traffic on the District Commissioners and
the judges who handle liquor cases.
What we lack is a board of Commits
sioners that has the nerve, the moral
stamina and the backbone to stand back
of what the people want" he said. I'VE
need judges who will see that the law is
| enforced"
| Other speakers were A. B. Scrbner OF
| the Fraternal Sons of Jonadab, Edward
| Tarring of the Christian Union and e, S.
| At the meeting in Temple Baptist
| Church the speakers weresRev. Donald c.
| Macleod of the First Presbyterian
! Church. Mrs. Clinton Smith of the w. C.
T. u, DR.. F. T. Power of the Church OF
the Disciples and Representative E. S.
Chandler, jr., of Mississippi.
| Mrs. Clinton Smith answered the con-
tention that prohibition does not prohibit
| prohibition does not enforce itself, -
she declared. 1T is not the fault of pro-
! hibition, but of lack of enforcement II
the law is made it should be kept You
| cannot make a man sober by act of Con-
| gress. Many people seem to think that
prohibition is directed at the personal
| habits of men. We do not attempt to say
what man shall drink or what he shall
| wear or eat. We desire that liquor not be
sold to him.
| The other speakers described. the ad-