The Washington herald., 1907-10-28
WAR ON The SALOON
Field Day in the Campaign
for Prohibition.
SERMONS IN MANY CHURCHES
DIR. Baker, of Ohio, Opens the Con-
test for No License In the Dis
trIet with Morning and Evening
Addresses-DecIaFes the National
League Is Deeply Interested.

/ Following close upon the preparations
/ Of the local liquor dealers for a strenu-
/ Gus campaign this winter against pro-
/ hibition IN the District, Rev. Dr. p. A.
/ Baker. OF Columbus. Ohio, general su-
! perintendent of the Anti-Saloon League,
/ in delivering field-day address yester-
/ day. said the national league was deep
/ ly interested in the success of the Dis
/ trict Of Columbia league, and would do
/ everything in its power to aid the or
/ ganization here in securing the adoption
/ by the next Congress Of a local option
law for Washington that would permit
the people in any part Of the city to say
/ by protest or petition whether or not
/ saloons should exist in their vicinity.
/ 1t was the semi-annuaI field day Of
/ the Anti-Saloon League in the District
! Of Columbia, and the occasion for a score
/ or more OF temperance addresses and
| sermons in churches throughout the city.
Many prominent speakers. anti-saloon
men from various States. came here for
the special purpose Of making addresses
on this most important field day In the
/ history Of the local Anti-Saloon League.
! The speakers had been assigned 10
/ churches by the local secretary, Albert
/ Shoemaker.
/ The day was in a most literal sense a
/ wet one, but this was not discOuraging,
I as the meetings were well attended. de-
/ spite the downpOur of rain. Many Of the
| speakers arralgned the saloons bitterly.
! paying attention 10 the impending local
| crisis.
Rev. Dr. Baker spoke in the Metropoli-
/ tan NJ. f. Church in the morning and
In the First Baptist Church In the even
/ ing. He gave a brief synopsis Of the
/ work. the methods, and object. He said
/ the league did Tot transform itself into
/ a police force for the purpose Of enforc-
| ing law. but that it created an organ
/ lied moral force IN every community that
would compel enforcement
Making II "safe to DO Right"
! He argued that nine men out OF ten in
public life would prefer to do right if 1t
was as safe politically to do right as it
was to do wrong, and that it was the
/ business Of the league 10 so mobilize the
moral forces as to make IL safe every
where 20 dONright Referring back 20 his
/ statement regarding sectional local op-
tion i1 the District he said a bill Of that
nature was already drawn and modelled in
many respects after the district local op-
tiou law Of Ohio. which has in the past
two years enabled between 100000 and
F. 50J.000 people in the larger cities Of that
! State 10 drive the saloons from the resi-
Dental districts.
Just in proportion" said he. "as you
( reduce the saloon, do yOu increase the
/ efficiency of the police force
As a Business Proposition.
/ Or. Baker discussed the saloon problem
/ from the standpoint OF the business in
terests OF the city and State, pointing TO
prohibition states. in which the per capita
| savings were more than 500. where in
wet" states the amount was much small
or. He declared the reason for this was
that the same class of people who keep
up the savings and loan societies ia pro-
hibItion states keep up the saloons in
/ the saloon states. He recited the sue
/ cesses Of the past year in various States
and State legislatures. and said that g.
| 100000 people were now living IN prohibit
{ ton territory. and that more than 2.5o0.-
000 had abolished the saloons from their
communities.
Address by Mr.. Shoemaker.
NIr. Albert L. Shoemaker. secretary Of
the local body, spoke az the Benning
/ Methodist Episcopal Church. in place OF
Rev r. ". Raymond. secretary for the
! Delaware district. who was called back
TO his home State in a hurry. 10 partici-
pate in the fight being made against the
saloon there. The local Delaware cam
/ paIgn has waXed warm. and prohibition
is the issue that will be fought at the
polls next week
In his address, Mr.. Shoemaker laid par
| ticular stress upon the fight To be made
before Congress this winter. He did not
outline the plan of campaign. explaining
that he would leave that for a future
date. but declared that it would be a
| strenuous one. He also reviewed the
progress Of the league. saying that it
had sown for years and that now was
the harvest time,
At the Fifth Baptist Church last night
Rev J. ". West, OF Richmond field sec
retaTy OF the Anti-SalOOn League OF Vir-
/ ginia, spoke 10 fair sized audience, his
subject being How to find a satisfactory
solution Of the liquor problem"
saloon Men Barred.
The speaker. in the course of his re-
marks, said that all the leading religious
denominations and several secret societies
have officially declared against admitting
| trafickers in intOxicants into member
| ship. He said il was admitted by all
that intemperance is a curse, and that
the main question to be solved is as to
the best way for its eradication.
/ Mr.. West said that the work being done
by the church, with the assistance Of
the Anti-Saioon League, was being felt
/ all over the country. In this connection
/ he quoted figures for several States.
He ascribed many acts OF crime and
violence lately enacted all over the coun-
/ try to the whisky curse.
He said that the celebrated Browns
vile (Tex) fort disorder was directly
| traceable 20 the saloon; the epidemic Of
crime in New York City, where 5000
/ policemen could not protect little girls,
may be traced to the damnable influence
Of the serpent, saloon"
Rev. f. J. Moore, of Columbus, Ohio,
assistant superintendent of the Ohio Anti
saloon League. spoke in the morning at
the First Presbyterian Church. his theme
/ being THE Christians Business"
DIT. Moore told of the progress of the
work in Ohio He said that out of a
total of 1,31 townships in that State
over LOO are dry; of the 76S muncipali-
ties. nearly 500 have voted to oust the
saloon.
/ At Calvary Baptist Church the Rev
| Marna s. Poulson. assistant superin-
tendent of the Maryland Anti-Saloon
League. spoke upon the work Of the