The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-11
GEORGIAN ON
 PROHIBITION Seabon Wright Talks to
 Big Crowd. DEGREES EVILS OF SALOONS No Way He Says, of Regulating
 Controlling Them. Declares Negro Problem Can Be soIv- ed i'm No other way Than by
 Closing Places for Sale
 of Liquor.


 Wright, of Georgia. would speak at the Montgomery Theatre for the second time in the interests of prohibition, brought an audience there last night that packed the auditorium of that house to the doors. Long before the time for the speaking to begin every available seat in the building was filled. Finafiy 1t became impossible for am other to find room, and the doors were shut for safety.
 Last nights meeting was presided over by Judge John R. Tyson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ala bama. The meeting was opened by U song set to the tune of Dixie. the re- frain to which ran, We all will work for Temperance, we'll work, we'll work" etc.
 Rev. w. M Cox: pastor of the Dex- ter Avenue Methodist Church read short passige from Prcvs, Sxxiii, after which he led in a short prayer for the success of the movement
 Judge Tyson presented MT. Wright as a man who needed no introduction to Montgomery audience because of his brilliant speech of last Sunday night. Judge Tyson read a telegram which he had just received. The mes sage was to the effect that the De- caturs went dry Saturday to l. The message was received with great cheers
 MT. Wright captivated his audience from the start. He described Mont gomery as the city beautiful. adding but l don't like everything in Mont gomery. The most obiectionable feat ures of your town are soon to be eliminated. however.
 If tho bartender could follow ev- cry bottle of liquor which leaves his shop and could realize all of thel mis- ( hA hut m n bushes voluntarily.
 There is more behind the prohibit tion movement than the average man dreams of." declared the speaker. Tt is no longer a movement led by hypo- critics, fools, and cranks, as has been charged in the past, but the movement Is backed by the good. sane, business men of this country. This movement Is the sober thought of the white people of the South asserting itself. It Is the expression Of tho fact that men are tired of the mere making of money.
 Trinity of Evils.
 Building a city by capitalizing sin is a thing of the past" continued MT. wright. 'The sin of the liquor traffic, rambIing and the capitalization of the virtue of women-behind this trinity i1 the lust for money, utterly forgettul or the fact that there are higher and DeS ter things"
 MT. wright argued the fallacy in the argument of men who say that the pus- mess interests of the city are I'm periied and showed the figures op thrae great cities-Chicago. Pittsburg and San Francisco, to prove his com 4sn4.a-7- that the business interests were not imperilled.
 "No great city of the past died put as the result of the wages Of sin' oe- clared the speaker.
 -Four out of every five crimes Wnlch are committed" declared the speaker "are due directly to the liquor traffic Reform such a traffic? Why, there IS | nothing to reform-there is no ele- | ment of good in It.
 The sneaker then good naturedly satirized the good government cluo amid the laughter of the audience. q think that the men who compose the Good Government Club of this city are honest, but you've heard Of the | feather in the whirlwind. The entire nroposition of reformation is silly, yet | these men mean 1t. tell you there is nothing to straighten the liquor bus mess except prohibition.
 Pm 'sorter' getting tired of these local elections and their strifes, anu here's a suggestion for that Good Gov ernment Club of yours-get together and 20 to the Capitol and ask the Leg isJature to put the liquor traffic out or husiness" The suggestion was re- ceived with cheers by the audience. Crimes Come From Liquor.
 MT. Wright showed the audience bot tles of gin which had been bought in saloons in the city having a picture of a naked woman on the label, which he declared was in itself enough to endanger the virtue and safety Of every white woman of the South.
 "Every trouble in the South" de- clared the speaker, comes from liquor. Tn Atlanta the riot in which there was nouch shedding of blood was caused by liouor. You can't settle the negro nroblem by education or by disfran- chisement-it can only be settled by prohibition.
 "There are a good many people who saw that the prohibition law cannot be erforced, Can 1t be possible that an interest has grown up in this commu- nity so strong that 1t can say. We defy vou trampIe the law under foot. We won't obey it' ?''
 "A saloon" concluded the speaker does not exist for the drunkard. If that were the case, there would be no saloons after fifteen years. The social features attract the young and more drunkards are made. But strip the sa- loon from the lust of money and 1t will perish fin day.
 q appeal by all that is sacred that Montgomery follow the lead of other cities In the State and be not the first to break the chain of victories in your great State"
 EARLY MORNING BLAZE.