Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-10
SALE OF STRONG DRINK
PRoHIBITIoNIsTs AND ANTI.
PRoHIBITIoNIsTs TO MEET
Two Mass Meetings Planned-Names
Of the speakers-Enorts Directed
ct Congress.

Both sides Of the question Of prohibition
win be given hearing this evening before
Washington audiences. Those who profess
to believe that the manufacture and sale
of strong drink in the District should be
prohibited by law will hold forth at the
Belasco Theater. where a mass meeting
will be held beginning at o'clock this
afternoon. The other side of the question
win be ventilated by speakers at a mass
meeting of the anti-prohibitionists at Ma
sonic Temple. 9th and F streets, beginning
at 8 o'clock this evening.
The speakers at the Belasco Theater will
include Rev. Donald Mcleod, Rev. A. p.
Doyle, Representative A. r. Weber OF
Ohio, author Of the Weber bill for prohi-
bition in the District, and Representative
Charles E. Littlefield of Maine. There VIII
also be program of music.
The speakers against prohibition at the
meeting at Masonic Temple In the evening
will include Mr.. Simon Wolf, who will be
the presiding officer; Rev DR.. Alexander
Kent Of the Peoples Church, Rev. DR..
Abram Simon, pastor of the Eighth Street
Hebrew Congregation; Miss Phoebe Couz-
ms, John H. Brinkman, president of the
Central Labor Union; Rabbi Julius T.
Loeb of the Adas Israel Synagogue; Mr.
Charles w. Darr, Mr. Samuel DeNedrey,
secretary of the Central Labor Union, and
others. There will be both instrumental
and vocal music.
Meeting This Afternoon.
1t is stated that the meeting in the after
noon will be under the auspices of the joint
committee of Christian and temperance So
cieties Of Washington The shibboleth Of the
gathering will be For better as we'll as
a Greater Washington"
The Personal Liberty League, under
whose auspices the meeting against prohibit
ton will be held at Masonic Temple in the
evening, has adopted as its slogan: "Prohi-
bition does not prohibit. In Maine and
Iowa 1t was a political trick and has proven
to be a farce"
Interest in the matter Of prohibition has
been aroused to almost fever heat by the
activity of the adherents of both sides Of
the matter, and it is predicted that there
will be large audiences at both meetings.
The committee of the Personal Liberty
League met last night and announced that
all arrangements for the meeting at Ma
sonic Temple had been completed. On the
stage will be President P. F. Moran of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, who may adj
dress the meeting; Mr.. Geo. w. Speir, Mr..
John Waldeman, Mr.. r. L. Montague,
Singing Societies and others. Mr.. John T.
Costello has been placed in charge of the
ushers.
Arrangements Concluded.
The committee in charge of the prohibi-
ton meeting at the Belasco Theater also
met last evening and concluded arrange
ments for that event.
An effort will be made this week to in
duce Congress to pass the Weber bill pro-
viding prohibition for the District Of Co
lumbia. 1t has been arranged to have the
white ribboners descend upon the Capitol
in force next Thursday in an effort to bring
about the passage of that or some other
similar measure.
In the meantime the Personal Liberty
Leaguers are said to have counter move
ment well advanced. Hundreds of me-
MORALS are being circulated for the sig
natures of those who oppose prohibition,
and 1t has been declared that much less
than 0ne-third of the residents of the Dis
trict favor arbitrary legislation for the pro-
liquor in the District