Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-02-19
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1e, 1907.
AFTER TEMPERANCE REFORM.
Prohibition Workers sssiese District

Prohibition Workers Besiese District
Committee on Liquor Traffic.
Temperance advocates 1000 strong
last Friday marched through the ma
tional Capitol in support of the bill in
troduced in congress by Representa-
tive Webber of Ohio, to rid the Dis
trict of Columbia of the liquor traffic.
Men, women and children, represent
ing a score of total abstinence orders
and leading churches Of the Distrlct,
formed the procession which moved
through the Capitol for more than
two hours, while Representative Weo-
ber and other prohibition advocates
were speaking before the house com
mittee on the District OF Columbia In
an EFFORT to secure a favorable report
on the bill.
Only fifty Of the temperance advo-
Gates were able to get into the small
committee room, but the army OF pro-
hibitionists moved constantly past the
doors of the room and lent their sup
port to the arguments against the
sale Of rum.
Surrender" was the watchword OF
the reformers and many OF them
pointed to the great oil painting in the
rotunda representing the surrender Of
Cornwallis and Burgoyne, and an
nouncing confidently that right and
Justice always triumph, declared that
perseverance will inevitably bring tri-
umph to the temperance army.
The white ribbons of the Women's
Christian Temperance union predomi-
mated in the long line Of crusaders.
Women made up three-fourths OF the
army" and practically all Of them
wore the white badge. There were
plainly dressed women of all ages, and
women dressed in the height of fash
ion walked with those wearing the
plain uniform OF the Methodist dea-
coness. Many mothers carried chill
dren in their arms and led their fam
lilies. Among the men in the process
sion clergymen seemed to prevail.
Representative Webber was in
charge Of the prohibition speakers be-
fore the house committee and Robert
Crane led the argument against the
Webber bill. In his opening speech
Mr.. webber said that liquor is respon-
sible for the condition Of 80 per cent
OF the persons in the Jail, work house
and insane hospital Of the District and
after reviewing the income from IL
ouor license, explained that it falls
more than 100000 short every year
of maintaining the institutions which
he said liquor makes necessary.
In support OF his declaration that
prohibition had been a failure wher-
ever II was tried, Robert Crane quoted
from statements of Bishop Henry c.
Potter. the Protestant Episcopal bish-
op of New York. The mention or
Bishop Potter's name called forth de-
risive laughter, followed by kissing
from the temperance advocates in the
committee room. Mr.. Crane de-
nounced the action of the prohibition
delegation, and stated that Neal Dow,
the Maine prohibition leader, admit
ted the week before his death that he
had been on the wrong track all
through his long fight for prohibition.
'It is not true!" practically all the
white ribboners In the room exclaim-
ing their denials again and again.
Mr.. Crane said the south was mis-
taken In it's movement for prohibition
and that the laws regulating liquor
selling in Tennessee and Kentucky
have been failures He stated that
the 'blind tigers" Of TenI essee have
caused an increase Of mirder and
crime in that state. This brought an
emphatic denial from Representative
Sims of Tennessee, member OF the
house committee on the District of
Columbia, who said that the speaker
had no knowledge OF what he was
talking about, and declared that the
state OF Tennessee had found its pro-
hibition legislation an unqualified sue
cess.
Miss Phoebe Cousins was among
the speakers who opposed prohibition
legislation for the District Of Colum
bia. She denounced the temperance
advocates who hissed the name Of
Bishop Potter, and said such intoler-
ance was a sign of narrow minded
ness.