The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-29
SPLENDID TEMPERANCE RALLY SUNDAY
NIGHT.
Packed House Listened to an As'o"ho'
ing Array of Facts and Figures Oh
the Liquor and Prohibition
Movement.

the luu0E uHu l. iVh
Movement, 4
BEFORE seven O'Clock, the hour SET 1
for the meeting had arrived, SUNDAY
nioht the Baptist church, the largesV
odifce OF its kind in\ the city, was
fned to overlooking with an eager
throng of people anxious to near "na'
,rooress is being made in this moSV
vita) of all questions now before 'ne
American people
The splendid audience that came
ont to hear this question discussed Is
hut another evidence of the magnitude
- tho reform movement that is sweep
mo over this nation at the preSeh'
time. .o oil
home talent and their addresses Shorn
If all oratorical glitter and rhetorical
on,hiouitv were filled with the strong
,neat Of facts that could not be sue
I oo,ofrl,v refuted, and carried conVic-
! ton to the hearts OF the most SNep''0'
= al. 90 tho
y Rev. Ellis, the first speaker Oh INC
} oron;no in endeavoring to presen'
y the magnitude of the liquor tran'lc
said that the mind of man was incAps
"A hle of grasping the stupenduouS ARA
Do ~ 6o,,res necessary to express 10
( magnitude Of this business in dollar
20 "a cents He also showed thai
! nermeated all classes from the higne'
4 ~ the lowest, sending out its grSspln
,ss teuacles into every phase OF our n
u tional existance. n
- Rev, Fills was followed by u
- Cooper, who presented strong pap
- nnon the effect of prohibition up
,ant the wage Garner. He said that
highest ideal of happiness ne COZ
think of was home where husoa'
'lnS' wife and children dwelt in peace
'isy' harmony, being we'll fed, well cio'i
she ond we'll housed, with little ialo
'rke' tor the traditional rainy day. II
. 'o o. he said, was an ideal condltloh'
u u thot although we NAV never attain
10 II It. prohibition tends toward II
ming as the saloon tends toward the OF
at he DIS 'l'0 '"'O
said site. oo,,or On
oas floor, said that the complete carr
per ont Of the prohibition movement w
rice hrirp about condition in the sc
20 80 ond moral affairs OF the cou'
''" "~o CLOSELY akin to the meiien'uh'
N OoO Hon., Lee E. Robinson delivered
ny 70 concluding address of the eVeo'n'
'lently $50 being "What is being dt
WINE M Robinson presented an ARA
a' 'io facts that would astonish even
. 'he1 most hopeful. He stated ina.
~ pe. are now six dry states ana ely
up w sto+es in which more than half th
d , 'n" ritory is dry, while in all the re
keep der, except eight states, there IS
Slnali or less dry TERRITORY. he I
ing as.t IN, showed that more than &c. oO0' W
better sIo ire now living in dry ter
within the confines OF the
y W, ,1Ae % States. He further showed tna'
mill W had been more progress in the
ce' 81 ~ hilton movement in The pasV INV
'iop lof than there had been in the .pre'
a very half century. He Furthermore
' IS, ..oi IL a very encouraging account OF
ices, he 1l'l'oo ~ wy
r;so ono the subject. -,
wise ono Other speakers were booked
.n Wv tho evening, but time forbade VII
ing the pear "no' aarosees were
cher pric. luz " ~. so,ao Inv the che
a''"s W congregation. Rev. Weich r
scripture lesson and Rev. Gar
tered the closing PRAYER +.
rs ms, president OF the ADV
in deep League Lei, of this place. was c
tate to all of the eve sag.