The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-04-17
PROHIBITION
IN THE SOUTH
SUBJECT or ABLE ADDRESS BY
Or. GEO. Il. MACK TO
w. c. 7. U.
INTERESTING MEETING IS HELD
Miss Williams Reads Paper on
The History Of Temperance
Movement.

The open meeting OF the w. T. l.
U. Friday afternoon was delightfui
occasion. fun Of interest and instruc-
ton TO an appreciative audience.
DIR. George H. Maek's address on
prohibition showed comprehensive
study of the whole temperance move
ment He had carefully gathered to-
pether the causes that have led up
10 the temperance wave that is sweep
ing over the country at present, show
ing them to be largely the seed sowing
of the different churches of the land;
the prevailing of the 'fervent effec-
tual prayers of the righteous" He
presented in a forcible manner the
economic. commercial and educational
forces that have combined to swell the
current of temperance sentiment ana
sweep it on to victory Among other
educational forces he gave a proml-
nent place to the work of the ", G. T.
U. in securing the passage of the law
recurring Scientific Temperance In
struction in the public schools.
DR.. Mack said in part:
.sThe comment of the press outside
of the South indicates ignorance OF
wh9t prohibition in the South really
signifies. Editors in other sections
seem to regard it as an experiment
q timid tentative venture made with
much mental reservation. They seem
to think we are at the old game OF
"snap out" and that the liquor tratc
is still in the ring waiting hopefully
to get the handkerchief on the next
round; that a temporary majority IS
for the time being on the long END Oh
the prohibition see-saw, but large,
respectable and well-organized minor
ity is complacently awaiting their
time when the plank will be reversed.
Such an impression, it is needless TO
saw. finds no confirmation in the
Southern understanding of the situa-
ton. the sense of a final farewell to
the old liquor license regime has set
tied suuarely down in the judgment
Of this section of the country.
at is true there remains and will
remain certain elements unfriendly
to prohibition. These can be easily
indicated in the two classes-the Al
coholics are the Academies. The Al
coholics are the partisans of the IL
ouor business for selfish reasons
They either desire to sell it, to rent
their property for its sale or they have
formed the saloon habit of drink.
They are Joined to their idols-thelr
nocket-books or their stomachs-let
them alone.
1.-THE Academies are those who have
fallen in love with syllogism and nave
some sort of records in the dlsputa-
tatious past. They say that prohioi.-
ton does not prohibit in Maine ana
Kansas and it cannot prohibit mere.
They argue that the present movement
is but a wave and will subside; that
for every violent action there Will IN
time come revulsion.
But the people of the promDltlon
territory in the South deny that the
situation is the same as in Maine ana
Kansas, and they deny that this is a
wave of sentiment due to passing
impulse of the people. Behind this
movement are years of growth. 1t did
not come as thief in the night. IL
is not a child of quick and painless
labor There are bulwarks behind the
movement that will sustain it and
make the ground already gained the
perpetual heritage of the better ele-
ments of our section. Without taking
space to elaborate these let us ndl-
cate them.
The religious energies of the South
are behind this movement. Inc
churches have nourished the healthy
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