Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-09-24
CHICAGO TO HAVE
PROHIBITION WEEK,
SEPT. 20-25.
Temperance Forces Plan Demonstra-
ton to Stir America,

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Representatives of all the temper
ance and Prohibition forces of the
United States will participate in a Sc
ries of rallies and demonstrations al
Chicago during the week of Sept
20-25.
Among the features announced for
the occasion will be the greatest Pro
hibition parade in the history of the
reform Saturday afternoon, Sept. %;
a celebration of the fortieth anniver-
sary Of the Prohibition party move
ment Friday, Sept. "a, and the most
impressive temperance rally ever plan
ned to be held in the famous Chicago
Auditorium Saturday evening, Sept
%.
Many other mass meetings, concerts
and rallies of various descriptions are
being planned for every day of this
notable week. Chicago, with her
1000 saloons and city government to
match, will be expected to sit up and
take notice as it never has done for
any previous event since the big fire in
1871.
Rival Demonstrations of Liquor and
Prohibition Forces.
Special interest attaches to this Pro
hibition week in Chicago over the re-
cont OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES +bot tba forcac Of
brewer whisky maker and liquor sell
er are planning what they claim will
be an equal record breaking event
on Sunday, Oct. 8, the week immedi-
ately following, and, in fact. in its
call to the friends of the saloon the
committee of arrangements concludes
with this gingery challenge to its
opponents: Money will be spent Law
ishly. We shall teach the fanatics a
lesson and shall make the ChicagoanS
sit up and take notice. Long live per-
sonal liberty shouts the spokesman
for the drink trust. This impertinence
has stirred the Prohibition forces as
perhaps no other incident, and the ia
Vorite retort heard in their rallies is
that the Prohibition demonstrations of
the preceding week will send such Il
cold chill through the advance enthu-
siasm wrought up by the booze lieu
tenants as to startlingly change the
effect of their intended "triumphaP'
parade and to all intents and purposes
make it look rather like a funeral
procession" heralding the doom of
King Alcohol.
Prohibitionists Plan Notable Observ-
ance of Fortieth Anniversary.
Friday, Sept. "A, has been chosen by
the Prohibitionists for the celebration
of the fortieth anniversary of the birth
of their movement. The party was
organized in Chicago, Sept. l, 1869, in
old Farwell hall, on the site Of which
is now located the Central Y. NJ G. A.
building. Many of the leaders of that
first national convention are still liv-
ing, and these veterans are being Spe-
cially invited to this anniversary cele
bration.
In an interview National Chairman
Charles r. Jones enthusiastically de-
tailed some of the significant reasons
why the party proposes to celebrate its
fortieth anniversary with all the en-
thusiasm and eclat possible: The
Prohibition party is the only one in
American history which has lived for
forty years without the aid of spoils or
graft. Since the republic was founded
over thirty parties have been started.
Only three have lived to be forty years
old and more. They are the Prohibi-
ton. the Republican and the Demo
cratic parties. We are forty years old
next month, and we are only fourteen
years younger than the Republican
party, which shows the strength of
the ideas and principles for which our
party stands The Prohibition party
during these forty years has been an
composed of fearless, con-
fident champions of civic righteous
ness. Not one hour in all that time
has it ceased to advocate the applica-
ton of the highest personal stand
ards of honesty and morality to the
political and social problems of the
day.
''Never a sectional party, its leaders
have been found fighting aggressively
in every corner of the land and press
ing forward the campaign of educa-
ton which has transformed public
opinion on the Prohibition issue during
the last decade and a half. Many Of
the principles which we were the first
to advocate have been since taken up
and triumphantly enacted into law.
The Prohibition party was the first to
declare for the income tax. AS early
as 1872 the Prohibition platform de-
clared for the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the peo-
pie.
The great reforms involving the estab-
lishment of postal savings banks, the
correction of a permanent tariff COM
prohibition of child labor and
basing suffrage not upon sex, but upon
have for years been Wig
orously championed by the party,
whose agitation has done much to edu-
cate the people to their value"
Nine surviving presidential and vice
presidential candidates of the Prohibi-
ton movement have been invited to be
present on this occasion. They are as
follows:
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
John P. st. John. Olathe, Kan, 1884;
Joshua lowering. Baltimore, 1896; John
G. Woolley, Honolulu. 1900; Silas c.
Swallow, Harrisburg. Pa, 1904; Eu-
gene W. Chain, Chicago, 1908.
VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDI-
DATES.
John Russell, New Haven, Mich,
1872: James B. Cranfill. Dallas, Tex,
1892; George W. Carroll, Beaumont,
Tex. 1904; Aaron S. Watkins, Ada, o.,
1908.
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