Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-11

Hickey. John r Mahoncy and Marion +.
Gilbert Nj. Downey introduced Rev. Carl
G.. D0ney. pastor of Hamine Methodist
Church. as the chairman of the meeting.
America" sung by the audience. Rev
Mr.. Doney then delivered an address.
Robert CuShman. one of the early Puri-
tan minister's he explained, ''once said:
You made it your business to consult re-
ligion before YOU consulted concerning pros
perity or popularity. When generation
has this in its mind there is something in
the heart of that generation that God will
not allow to die. Friends. We have met
here for a purpose. We are here to resolve
and demand that We have liberty and life
and the privilege of pursuing happiness.
al want to inquire of you If there is any
thing in our midst that curtailS our happi-
ness or liberty? The answer is: The Ameri-
can sIioon. We go to the almshouse, Jail.
slum stricts ard the electric chair. We
go to TIE hcartbroken women, and see the
results. We have met here to tell the re-
suits again.
Rev. DR. Powers Address.
I'VE are here in the interest of "a better
Washington Rev. F. D. Powers. the next
speaker said. For thrty-two years l have
been trying in humble way to make
better Washington | think it has grown
better, and yet it still lives. as We all do. in
a large room-room for Improvement. L
have never exercised the power of the bal
lot, for all my voting age has been passed
in a town where We have taxation without
representation. where men. women and chill
dren. the insane and the idiot stand on the
same plane far suffrage is concerned.
1 do not clamor to vote. but l have some
times thought If we had that right We
would not have such streets after a snow
fall as no provincial town in America of
10000. people would tolerate for an ipstan
/ have felt We would have something to say
to who should be postmaster. and who
schools. and who should distribute the trlb-
ute render to- Caesar, and how it should
be distributed. | have thought We might
exercise some influence. in the appointment
of our excise board, and might possibly de-
termine did not need excise board
at all 5--.s. ~ ,.,,, -
leVe in the total prohibition of the saloon.
For persenM reasons am against this in
stitution. l have buried dozens of its VIC
tins; am called to aid scores that IL has
beggared l must / y taxes to support the
institutf9as its presence; makes necessary.
l had Il little home in respectable section
of this city. One saloon came in square
of me-two, three, four. five, six, seven.
eight, nine. In each with others |
went before the excise board and protested,
but the gentlemen who had the authority
TO grant license listened and then granted
the license, and never in single instance
exercised their discretion in favor of the
opposition-never, Then came the throng
through the streets with their buckets.
Thirteen my neighbor counted in an hour.
L complained to the police. They said, We
are poverless.' Day by day women and
little children must endure this sight of
foamiEg beer buckets passing their doors
and no recourse. / had TO leave the neigh
borhood.
Yes, l am for the Weber bill l would
not for one moment speak of this city, as l
heard it characterized yesterday in street
car. a rotten city. l love the city. 1
am proud of this city. l pray in every
prayer in my pulpit for this city. But am
going 10 say that no civilized community
should permit for a moment the degrading,
GpmDraliZi dphanCbpo Destructive thing
its streets that is called rushing the
GROWER, And / appeal to the statesmen
who legisiate for the helpless thousands
of the District of Columbia for protection
of our boys and girls Oh. gentlemen of
Congress, You speak of the evils of child
labor. but where one of these little ones
suffers from the cotton mills or glass fac
tories or fax mills thousand are wronged
by the mills
For the Weber Bill.
Yes am for the WeDber bill am
for it on grounds of the highest statesman
ship We celebrate on Tuesday the ninety
eighth anniversary of the great e,nancipa-
tor. Abraham Lincoln was a prohibitionist
Hear him:
- This legalized liquor traffic as carried
on in the saloons and grog shops is the
great tragedy of civilization. The saloon
has proved itself to be the greatest foe,
che most blgttng curse that has ever
found home in our modern civilization.
and this is the reason why / am d political
prohfb!tonist. Prohibition brings the de-
sired result. 1t suppresses the saloon by
law IL stamps and brands the saloon
Keeper as a criminal in the sight of God
and man. By licensing the saloon we
feed with one hand the fires OF appetite
we are striving to quench with the other.
While this state of things continues let us
know that this war is all our own-botb
sides of it-until this guilty connivance of
our own actions shall be withdrawn 1 am
prohibitonist because prohibition destroys
destruction
Again listen: The liquor traffic is a
cancer in society. eating out its vitals and
threatening destruction. and all attempts to
regulate II VIII aggravate the evil. There
must be no attempts to regulate the can
GER, it must be eradicated not a root must
be left bebind, for until this is done all
classes must continue in danger of becom-
ing victims of strong drink
This was the attitude of this mighty
man, this marvellous man. The greatest
statesman England has produced in a hun
bred years said before the house OF COM
mons, speaking on this subject: This traf-
fic has wrought more harm than the three
great historic scourges-war. famine and
pestilence-combined Yes. gentlemen of
the Congress. IL Is not much iron In big
ships to fight foreign foes We need but
iron in the blood of men to rise up and
wipe out the great internal foe of our homes
and institutions. our boys and young men,
our schools and our churches, humanity
and God. We have preached against the
saloon. and We have preached we'll We
have prayed against the saloon, and we
have prayed fervently. We have written
against the saloon. and We have written
logically. We have wept over the desola-
tons of the saloon, and our tears have been
sincere. But the day has come when SER
mons and prayers. and argument and agi-
tation, and heartache and tears should
crystalline into the legal force Of prohib-
TORY law, and the red-lipped monster