The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-22
MAKES FINAL FIGHT
IN THE BIG CITIES
Governor Glenn Advises Anti
Saloon League to Devote It
self to Making Sentiment.
MAKE NEW YORK LAST
Will Require Ten Years to Make
That Big City Dry--Con-
ditions in Maine.

NEW YORK, March Eek Gov
ernor Robert h. Glenn, of North Caro-
lima, who carried the white flag of the
Anti Saloon League through skirm-
ishes for local option in counties and
then in cities, and finally TO an ulti-
mate conquest in Statewide prohibit
ton, told the members of the New
\ ork ti-Saloon League at a Carne-
gle Hall mass meeting yesterday that,
even II the city local option bill should
psss the Legislature this session, II
would be five years before the first
STABLE city in the state voted itself
airy, and ten years at least before the
warfare would begin to tell upon Man.
ilttttan. Immediate prohibition he con-
siutreo as unlikely as an an immediate
/ . tnnium.
Governor Glenn came to the mass
, meeting, which was called to create
pull lie sentiment in favor of the city
local option bill, fresh from the Anti
Sa.oon Leagues battle grounds of the
Midi lie West and New England. He
told from his experiences in these fields
Ae.ss-best- save ammunition IN the
lone crusade he feels certain Is ahead,
and how best TO reach the vital spots
of tho liquor demon as he has seen 1t
Jabhed in other centers.
In visiting the North on such an err
l d Governor Glenn said he felt that
he was only repaying the visit the
Northern folks made to the South from
! 1861 to 1865. and that the fact that he
| could be here under such a banner
1 meant that the new industrial North
| ana the now fully reconstructed South
| were prepared unitedly to do battle for
/ q great, new national life founded upon
/ subriety and ineternal enmity to strong
! drink.
/ let the making of sentiment be your
present business" he said, and then
/ In five years after you get this law
ytl will have Syracuse and Troy and
/ Iseche ster going dry.
And finally. perhaps in ten years
or SO, when l am on the brink of the
! 81 ave, you will be able to invite me
! back here to Join with you In celebrat-
! ing the final rout of strong drink from
e2e1. this great metropolitan commu-
/ nit, But never forget that the way
! t. make New York city of complete
| c"l litty Is to fight your final battle
| her, not your first battle. First dry all
/ the country roundabout. and then APP
| proach your problem here. You will
make progress only as you build senti-
| flent. And that takes slow, organized,
/ steady work.
/ The br. wers have sent out tons of
/ litcra, ure,'' he said, telling how bad
| Maine behaves under prohibition, and
| how the speak easy thrives there. The
| Anti-SGloon League, on the other hand,
! has sent out much literature telling
! how good the State has grown. / &C
eeptet. the werd Of neitner, but went
up there to have a look into the situ-
alton for myself.
II asked the proprietor Of the biggest
! hotel in town how | could get a drink.
! He replied that he was.a law-abiding
man and I couldn't work one out of
| him. D said / was dying of thirst and
was very i'll. He told me to go around
the corner and a guide would meet me
and show me the way. l threw up my
ffsttftfst sttftt snfd thanked heaven / Was
In place at last where | needed q
guide to lead me to a drink. Almost
/ everywhere else | had been the people
Iwere III need OF a guardian to keep
them away from 1t.
And then ! took note of Maine. OF
1850 murders committed in this coun-
try last year, only 3 were committed in
| Maine, found the people there own
I ed STA per capita, while here In your
state they own only $50 per capita,
and found that the county poorhouses
were almost empty"