The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-10
SPEAKER BANKS SCORED BY COLD
 WATER ADVOCATES
Special from United Press.

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 Lake Conpounce, Sept. 1O.-Despite the indictment weather, 300 temperance advocates from all over the state gath cred here to-day to attend the fifth annual Christian Citizenship field day of the allied temperance organizations of Connecticut.
 A dozen or more speakers, including prominent members of the Prohibition party in this state and the Hon. Flu gene Chain, the head of the national ticket in the last presidential cleo ton, addressed the gathering.
 The recent general assembly came in for a good share of criticism for their failure to pass a statewide prohibi- tion law and the attitude of the excise commission was represented as being distinctly hostile to any strong ad- vance along temperance lines.
 B. L. c. Hehenthal. South Man chester. chairman of the state pro- hibition party, said in part:
 From my intercourse and acQuaint- ance with the members of the legisla- and earnest for the overthrow of the liquor traffic, including its complete prohibition. On the other hand, found that many of the men who dom- mate the party councils, in other words what might be called the ma chine, were and are on intimate terms with the liquor fraternity. These men by long experience and plausible and adroit arguments, are capable of in- fiuencing many of the members, and are led to vote for measures or com init themselves before they know the real purport of them.
 "The difficulty is with the leaders who make their deals and play the game. The action of Speaker Banks in his makeup of the excise committee is a notable instance of which the next speaker on the program may have something to say.
 While great multitude of our vot- CTS desire the prohibition of the liquor traffic, these leaders are laying the wires and plans whereby the will of the people is frustrated or hindered many times and the liquor traffic per- mitted to continue on in its work of destruction"
 Representative George B. Chandler of Rocky Hill was assigned to speak on the subject What Next in Con- necticut Excise Legislation and How ter half of the question MT. Chandler was of the opinion that it was better for the average citizen to work with one of the old parties, rather than to break them up and start a new one. But he complimented the prohibition ist party on "the splendid moral pro- paganda'' that it is carrying on, and admitted that he should view the dis solution of that party as distinct national loss"
 The Rev. w. S. MacIntire of Hart ford. in an address on the Sunday Question in Connecticut, opposed the enactment of more liberal Sunday law and said that the people could not afford to have the church surrender the day into the hands of those who would make it a holiday instead of a Holy Day.
 In conclusion he said: "When we consider the forces arrayed against us, the influence brought to bear upon the friends of the liberal bill. the attitude of the& Judiciary Committee and the Speaker of the House. we may well regard the outcome as a victory for righteousness"
 The Rev. E. o. Taylor of Boston, Mass, gave detailed account of the proceedings of the 18th International Congress on Alcohol held in London last July. He told how during the discussion it came out that the United States was far in the lead of the other nations in stamping out the liquor habit