The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-15
ON LIQUORS TRAIL
TEMPERANCE PEOPLE MAkE DES-
 ONsTRATION AT CAPfTOL.
Speakers Before Committee CensIasF- ing District of Columbia niii are Interrupted by Men and
 Women Crusaders.

Washington, Feb. 14.--Temperance Advocates one thousand strong, march, ed through the national capitol today In support of the bill introduced ny Representative Weber of Ohio, to rid the District of Columbia of the IL quor traffic.
 Men. women and children represent ing a score of total abstinence orders and the leading churches or the dis- trict, formed the procession whlch moved through the capitol for mora than two hours. while Representative Weber and other prohibition advo- cates were speaking peiore 1no House commit on tn District or Co- Iumbia in an effort to secure a favor able report on the bill.
 Only fiMy of the temperance advo, catets were able to get into the small committee room but the army or pro. hibitionists moved constantly past the open doors of the room and lent their support to the Arguments against the sale of liquor. Repeatedly me crusaders moved about the rotunda under inc great dome of the capitol.
 "surrender," was the watchword or the reformers and many of them point ing in the rotunda representing the surrender of Cornwaliis and Bur goyne and announcing confidently thai right and justice always triumph.
 The white ribbons of the woman Christian Temperance Union preaom' mated in the long line of orusaeets ts. army" and practically all of them wore the white badge.
 The Rev. Carl G. Doney and the Rev. E. c. Dinmidhy, of the Anti- Saloon League were among three prominent in the movement.
 Mrs. Clinton smith, president or the District women's Christian rem peranceUnion headed ioiurnn coppos- ed of prominent members of the Rechabites. the Independent Order or Good Templars, the Prohibition Cru saders the Catholic Total Abstinence Union, the Christian Endeavorers ana other reform organizations.
 Representative Weber was in charge of the pohibition speakers before the House committee. and Robert Cram led the argument against the "eoer bill. In his opening speech MT Weber stated that liquor Is responsi- ble for the condition of ninety per cent, of the persons in the jail work house and insane hospital of the Dis- trict, and after reviewing the income from liouor licenses, explained that It falls more than sS00,o0o short every year of maintaining the institutions which he said liquor makes neeessa- ry.
 In support of his declaration that prohibition had been Q failure wher- ever 1t was tried, Mir. Grain quoted from statements of Bishop Potter of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New York The mention of Bishop potter's name called forth derisive naa-hter, followed by hissing from the temperance advocates in the com nLtteo room. Mir. Grain denounced the action of the prohibition delega- tion and stated that Neal Dow. the Maine prohibition leader admitted the week before his death that he had been on the wrong track all through his long fight for prohibition
 '1ts not true" practically ali the white ribboners in the room exclaim- cd. jumpin~ to their feet and repeat ing their ,niaIs again and again.
 MT. Grain said the South was mis- taken in Its movement for prohibition and that the laws regulating liquor selling in Tennessee and Kentucky have been 6 failure.
 He stated that the blind tigers" of Tennessee have caused an increase of murder and crime in thnt State. This brought an emphatic dental from Rep- resentat!ve Sims of Tennessee. a mem her of the House committee on the District of Columbia, who said the sreaker had no knowledge of what he was talking about and declared that the State of Tennessee has found It's prohibition legislation, an unqualified success.