The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-24
MRS. ARMOUR OF GEORGIA THE
STAR OF TWO MEETINGS YES.
TERDAY-NEGRO WOMEN ARE
TO BE ENLISTED IN WORK.

The WOmen's Prohibition League.
auxiliary to the Escamb1a County
Prohibition League, was organized
yesterday, with the following officers:
Mrs. l.. E Mobiles, president.
Mrs. w. D. Chipley, first vice-pres-
ident.
Mrs. w. A. Monroe, second vice.
president
Mrs w A. Blunt, third vice-presi-
dent.
Miss Olga White, recording secre-
tary
Mrs w. T. Reager, corresponding
secretary.
miss Lille Robinson, treasurer.
There was very enthusiastic
meeting, presided over by Mrs. No
bles, with an attendance of nearly
a thousand. The membership of the
league, which had been started a day
or two ago, was swelleu to over 700,
and the members pledged themselves
to an enthusiastic and Woodworking
campaign
Mrs. Armour, of Georgia.
The assembly was addressed by Mrs.
Armour, who made one Of her char
acteristic hard-hitting speeches, which
was warmly applauded- After the
usual business had been transacted,
the meeting adjourned to attend the
meeting held at p. N. at the Ar
mOry.
A large crowd assembled at the
Armory, and the meeting was pre-
sided over by Rev. Thos. NJ. Gallo
way, pastor of the Baptist church,
who introduced Mrs Armour
The speaker is woman of very
impressive appearance, of magnetic
personality and had the audience
with her from the very start
Her talk spared no one of the OPP
ponents of the prohibition fight. and
was applauded to the echo whenever
an unusually telling hit was made.
Mrs. Armour arraigned the friends of
the whiskey traffic before the bar of
the people, and put them on trial
with a vigor and energy that might
be emulated but not exceeded by a
young states attorney with his first
important criminal case She swayed
her audience from laughter to tears,
from mlrth to shame at their Supine-
ness in allowing the traffic, but never
once did she fail to use a keen and
unmeTciful logic, which was addressed
to all who came within the category
of friends of the liquor business.
Does Ii Prohibit.
The argument that prohibition does
not prohibit was met with The argu-
ment that if it did not, the saloon
and liquor men would not be raising
large sums of money and maintaining
costly organizations to fight it. Mrs.
armour said: IF more whiskey and
beer were sod under prohibition
than under a license law, every brew
er and distiller in the country would
be rushing in to sign their names to
the list of prohibition workers" she
added: Il am a prOhibitioHiSt because
l know that prohibition does pro-
hibit. l would not be fighting for a
dead issue, and it is my business to
fight for prohibition
She then paid her respects to the
doctors, saying: twenty-five or IN
ty years ago, we all believed that
whiskey was a necessity to some men,
and that it was a good thing in its
place. Now, we know different, even
to the children in school, and / say,
without fear of challenge, that doc
tor who today prescribes whiskey for
ANY illness, thereby Subscribes him
self as being behind the times-not
up to date"
Personal Motives
One of Mrs. Armour's most scathine
attacks was made upon those who
support the liquor business because
Of the revenue it brings, either to the
town or to themselves. There are
some men who vote to retain whiskey
because they want to drink II: there
Continued on Third Paae.)