The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-22
THE NATIONAL
MODEL LICENSE
LEAGUE MEETS
CALLED TO ORDER IN LOUIS
VILE YESTERDAY BY PRESI-
DENT GILMORE, WHO DELIV-
Erred LENGTHY ADDRESS ON
OBJECTS OF THE LEAGUE.
su Assoclated Press.

hour when the prohibition move
ment has included, Tennessee the
/ National Model License League met
/ this morning in Louisville to test the
growth of its doctrine and 10 hear
various views regarding its purpose.
The sessions will last three days and
the speakers to be heard inclHds
Mayor David $. Rose, of AIiIwaUbe e;
/ Sidney Storey, of New Orleans; d..
-. F. Cullen. of Pittsburg. Kan; DR..
/ Nathan F. Cole, OF Peoria, ILL.,, and
others
President T. VI. Gilmore. of the
! league, called the session to order at
! 10 O'Clock today and an address -
| welcome by Mayor J. F. Grinstead
and appropriate responses were first
/ heard
/ The ayOwed purpose of the league
] Is TO take the saloon out of politics
and keep it there and to exclude ali
lawbreakers from he TetaH liquor
/ business whatever the law in their
communities. The league would sub
NIT to the people of each political
communal division various questions
as to how the majority of them want
the liquor trade regulated.
President GiImore's Address.
/ The address Of President Gilmore
/ of the National Model License
Gentlemen-In looking over the
/ past, and in watching the evolution
! of society, We can notice a constant
ebh and flow of movements aiming at
1 the betterment of mankind. such
movements being generally referred
/ u a. reform movements Although
many of them are rather blindIy en-
tered into and are conducted rather
under the direction of hysteria than
! OF calm deliberate judgment, we are
J bound to admit that. on the whole
good results from them, because they
compel the people to think. and they
ultimately effect very largely the
| changes that are needed. and to
great extent they destroy the OBJ
stacles that stand in the path of hu-
man progress.
During the centuries we have con
nected with these efforts at reform
| a great many demands for absolute
| rohibition-sOmetime of one thing
! anc sometimes of anotheT-and in
many cases society has been per
sUaded to adopt prohibftory laws. and
! hd undertaken to compel an entire
people either to do certain things
I that the people do not want to do,
| OF else to surrender the right to do
| certain things that the people do
want to do, and these efforts have
| always proven to be impractfcable.
! Will Not Be Driven.
! In the establishment of the Chris
! tIan religion various churches when
1 In power tried to compel all of the
people to adopt one creed and one
| form of service. but such efforts. ex-
/ pe:Ience has shown us, could not be
carried to a successful conclusion
( People like to be taught, and they
are willing 10 be persuaded. hut they
/ do not like TO be driven. Before. and
! especially since. the days of Magma
! CEarta, the average man in civilized
society has arrived at the conclusion
/ that he should be permitted to con-
! duct his own private life in accord
FaHcc with his own judgment as to
what is best for him here and here
after. and while we acknowledge at
| least under the republican form of
gov eminent, that every individual
! does possess certain inherent rights
| that no government may interfere
with, and that every individual should
be sovereign unto himself we
seem to be unable to get away from
the idea that while we are able 10
control ourselves the other fellow
ought to be controlled by the man
date of law.
This accounts for the waves of
Britain during several centuries and
accounts for the wave of prohibition
that passed over this country in the
! tftes, and for the wave that passed
over this country in the eighties, and
for the wave that is passing over
this country at the present time I'M
der the direction of the Anti-SaIoOn
League
The AnU-SalOOn League has been
remarkably successful in its attacks
upon the wine and spirit trade, be-
cause IL was organized by very able
men, and because it solicited and So
cured the cooperation of a number of
church denominations, and because
it mas cO-Operated with political part
les has undertaken to control the
balance of power in most of the
states, and because ii has been sue
cesSfUl IN securing enormous sub
sCTiBtions of money with which TO
employ speakers writer's and organ
iZeFs
To Dictate Politics.
There Is no question that the pUr-
pose Of the Anti-SalOOn League is to
dictate the politics OF this country.
to make presidents and governors. TO
control congresses and legislatures,
and 10 occupy, in so far as our gov
errments are concerned. the same Do
sitiOr that the Earl Of Warwick is
said. 10 have occupied under the reign
of Henry VI and Edward ".
The Anti-SalOm League is not adj
voceting prohibition. and TO one who
is familiar with the situation all of
this talk about dry territory is
nothing more than an absurdiJy.
There IS no dry territory" in this
country, although there are a number