The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-06-26
ELOQUENT PLEA
FOR THE HOMES
MRS. FLORENCE ATKINS ENTHUs-
S LARGE AUDIENCE ON STATE
WIDE PROHIBITION.


S delivered an 5d.ress at the cour
4 house Thursdss p sit under the aus
q pices Of the " C. T. L. to a large
representative and highly appreciativ
, audience. The speaker made
strong, COW ncing and most pleasing
; argument on the evils OF the liquo
traffic and in behalf Of statewide pro
= hibition and of Senator E. w. Car
, mack the champion Of prohibition anC
time and time again her remarks
brought fourth enthusiastic applause
There were more than two hundred
and fifty people in the audience and
of the number 149 were voters. The
remarks of the speaker met the ap
prevail of practically every man and
woman in the audience.
Mrs. Atkins gave a brief history of
the campaign for the abolition of the
sale and manufacture Of liquor in Ten
nessee and showed how necessary it
is that every good citizen should line
up on the right side and give his influ-
ence and his vote in this battle for
the purity of the home and the protec-
/ ton of the boys and the young men
from the evils and immortality of the
! liquor traffic. There are only two
sides to this question she said and
there is not man in Tennessee who
does not understand the situation
however much the champion of the
liquor traffic and his followers may
attempt to muddy the waters and con-
fuse the issue. On the one side is the
degredating liquor traffic-a traffic
that has brought sorrow to thousands
of homes in Tennessee; that has
robbed tens of thousands of men of
their strength, their minds, their very
souls and has brought them down to
penury and want to suffering and In
firmities and in many instances has
lodged them in the jails and peniten-
tiaries in the asylums and SANTA |
runs a traffic that has robbed little |
children of bread, Of clothing, Of edu-
cation: that has stained the cheeks OF
women by the thousands with tears,
driven happiness from their hearts
and left them without hope and filled
their minds with fear and unspeakable
horror.
The Model License League, of which
Levy & Son, the makers of that in
famous and vilely labeled gin, is on
he side of the liquor traffic and is
ending it's influence and is financial
support to the liquor champion. The
the wholesale liquor deal
,rs, the saloons and their allied inter-
,sts are lined up with this opponent
If statewide prohibition, and very (
many good, but misguided citizens are
lso lined up with the same side
,ood people who have ears to hear
nd hear not; have eyes to see and
ee not
On the other side are the good wom-
n of the state by large majority,
he innocent and helpless children the
hurches. the ministers, the temper A
nee organizations the good citizens :,
Y the thousands and their champion,
dward Ward Carmack. At the men
on of Senator Carmacks name the
udieuce went wild with applause. The q
oeaker said she did not see how any h
pod citizens. any conscientious citi- 9,
IN, any man who loved his home and
Is family who loved his state and -
as an advocate of law enforcement Dl
Id good government, could fail to line Ia
} in this momentous contest and lend TO
s influence and his vote to Mr.. Car
ack. \,
Mrs. Atkins exploded the much dis III
ssed suggestion of the liquor inter-
t that the abolition of the breweries 40
d the distilleries would cause loss or
the farmers by removing market ia
r their corn and barley. From sta
tics secured at Washington she m
owed that only two per cent of the =
I'm crop is converted into whiskey. :
d said there were thousands of k
irving children who needed that N
o per cent for bread. She exploded "
} local option theory-a plea which X
m is using for support, but whose "
ncipIes he has always opposed by W
owing that the liquor question is M
te-wide and the people of the entire X
tie have to deal with 1t. She told ~
the degredating influence of the IL rs
Or traffic on the colored race and N
" great was the duty of the white X
to remove this temptation W
m the negro. She covered, in fact, "
entire question and appealed elo- c
,ntly to her hearers to acquit them