Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-15

WORKERS IN
BIG DEBATE
Declare Cause Will.
Win the Day
One Thousand Advocates March
Through Streets Of Washington.
Want Liquor Traffic in
District Wiped Out
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14,-Temper-
ance advocates, 1000 strong, marched
through the national capital today In
support of the bill introduced by Rep
resentative Webber of Ohio to rid the
District of Columbia from the liquor
traffic. Men, women and children,
representing score of total absti-
nence organizations, formed the pro-
cession, which moved through the
capital for more than two hours, while
Mr.. Webber and other prohibition ad-
vocates were speaking before the
house committee on the District of Co
lumbia in an effort to secure favorable
action upon the bill.
Only fifty of the temperance advo-
Gates were able to get into the small
committee room, but the rest moved
constantly past the open doors of the
room. Repeatedly the crusaders
moved about the rotunda under the
great dome of the capitol and again
and again leaders remarked We're
moving just as around the walls of
Jericho, and the barriers of the demon
rum will fall"
Surrender" was the watchword of
the reformers, and many of them
pointed to the great oil painting in the
rotunda, representing the surrender
of CORVALLIS and Burgoyne and an
nouncing confidently that right and
justice always triumph, declared that
perseverance will inevitably bring tri-
umph to the temperance army.
Majority Are Women
The white ribbon OF the w. c. 7. U.
predominated in the long line of cru
saders. Women made up three-fourths
of the army and practically all of them
wore the white badge. Mrs. Clinton
Smith, president of the w. c. T u,
headed a column composed of members
of the Rochabites, the Good Templars,
the Prohibition Crusaders, the Catho
| lie Total Abstinence union, the Chris
tian Endeavorers and other reform or
ganiZations.
Representative Webber was in
charge of the prohibition speakers be-
fore the house committee and Robert
Grain led the argument against the
Webber bill.
In support of his declaration that
prohibition has been a failure wher-
ever it was tried, Robert Grain quoted
from statements of the Rt. Rev. Henry
C. Potter of New York. The mention
of Bishop Potter's name called forth
derisive laughter. followed by kissing.
Mr.. Grain. denounced the action of the
delegation and stated that Neal Dow,
! the Maine prohibition leader, admitted
week before his death that he had
been upon the wrong track all through
his long fight for prohibition.
Statement Denied
Its not true" practically all the
white ribboners in the room exclaimed,
jumping to their feet and repeating
their cries again and again.
Mr.. Grain said the south was mis-
taken in it's movement for prohibition
/ q 1in1Inr
selling in Tennessee and Kentucky
| have been a failure. He stated that
the blind tigers" of Tennessee have
causd an increase of murder and
crime In that state. This brought an
emphatic denial from Representative
Sims of Tennessee, a member of the
house committee on the District of Co
lumbia, who said the speaker had no
| knowledge of what he was talking
about and declared that the state of
Tennessee has found it's prohibition
Legislation one of unqualified success.
Woman Against Measure
Miss Phoebe Cousins was among
those speaking against prohibition leg
islation for the District of Columbia.
Miss Cousins said her opposition to
prohibition is due to experience in
! prohibition states, where she found
| that the law against liquor selling re-
suited in unlawful traffic in liquor as
well as deception and general lawless-
ness.
In replying to the prohibition speak
ers claim that st. Elizabeth hospital
for the insane at Washington is filled
chiefly by the victims of liquor, Miss
Cousins declared the hospital, which
is used by the government for an
army hospital, for the insane, gets
many of it's patients from the Philip
pines and she contended, "the folly of
this government in taking the islands"
rather than liquor is claiming it's VIC
| TINS among the soldiers.