The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-18
ELOQUENT,
APPEALING.
CONVINCING
Address Covers Wide Range
of General Problems
of Internperance.
AnnihilatiVe But Courteous
Assaults on Strongest
Liquor Claims.
LARGEST AUDIENCE CAMPAIGN
HAS SEEN HEARS STRONGEST
SPEECH THAT HAS BEEN DE-
LIvERED-THE GIFTED GEoR-
CLAN PROVES THE BIGGEST
GUN" THAT HAS BEEN USED
IN THE BATTLE TO DATE.

In the most logical, forceful and in
spring address yet heard on the pro-
hibition movement, filled with unan-
swerable arguments, the Hon. Seaborn
Wright of Georgia fired the hrsr
big gun in the present campaign last
night in Seville Square, before the
largest audience that has turned out
at a mass meeting since the opening
of the campaign
The Hon Mr. Wright was cleverly
introduced as The great champion OF
prohibition" by Rev. Thomas M. Cal
Iaway, and spoke for an hour and ten
minutes, holding the closest attention
of the big crowd. Frequent applause
interrupted his remarks, and there
was no doubt of the feeling of the
audience in regard to the policy as
expressed by the speaker. Mr.. Wright
spoke in part as follows:
The Right Spirit.
Ladies and gentlemen: This looks
like Georgia prohibition audience To
me, and | think | see something or
the spirit in your faces that l saw III
the faces of the men and women IN
Georgia during the recent campaign
in which We stopped forever the legal
lied sale Of liquor within the boun-
/
ons. of which race we nearly all be-
long. were born to rule the world and
to stand up for the right in all ways,
Perfect manhood and womanhood VIII
be the only solution 10 our troubles.
The Inevitable.
- 1.-The people of the country every
where today are trying to make
| money. Wealth gathering is the all
! absorbing topic everywhere. The old
shirt of commercialism is dying out
/ forever and forever And yet it Is
| not money tnat makes a man, nor
wealth a city. Then what constitutes
city? We are rapidly coming TO the
| blessed era where, above all, the
wealth. we will call for men with clean
minds and clean hearts. Those quail
tiles are what makes people great.
We want today more or that great
| spirit that manifested Itself IN the
heart and soul of every true south
erner in the SOS, and which is sweep
| ing over the southland today. Many
reasons may be given for this wave
of sentiment, but behind it all is the
great value which we put upon the
! safety of our wives and children over
all else.
"Things have now gotten TO the
point where liquor is to be driven out
of the entire south. Georgia has simp-
Iy taken the first step; others Will
| follow. The result of the fight in
Georgia was inevitable. Georgia
simply had the courage to take ad-
vantage of the situation and drive the
liquor traffic from the state.
| 1T is inevitable that Florida viii
drive liquor from the boundaries OF
your state at the next meeting OF the
legislature. If the prOhibittonists Of
this beautiful state of yours are true
to .hernseIves-and they will be-you
will have the same three-to-One VIC
tory in your legislature which we had
in Georgia a few weeks ago.
Advice to Liquor Men.
Liquor men, let me tell you that
If YOU are spending much money IN
this campaign, don't do IL. Just take
down your tents and, like the Arabs,
silently steal away. Or better yet,
stay here. cast your lot with the re-
spectabIe citizens of the city, engage
in some worthy enterprise and do your
part to make Pensacola what II Is
destined to be, the best city on the
Gulf coast Men, 1 want you to come
here tomorrow night, when / shall
strike out straight from the shoulder
and answer some OF your arguments
with the force which they deserve.
when | came to Pensacola yester.
day afternoon it was with feelings OF
uncertainty had heard much of Pen
sacola, some speaking well of ths
} town and others had spoken iii.
was uncertain as to what my decision
would be, but I declare that when
aIighted from that train at your depc:
J and looking around saw nothing b.
barrooms with loafing vagabonds az
drunkards hanging around the corne.-
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