The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-02-23
STRONG ADDRESS
BY MRS. ARMOUR
The Speaker Declared That the People
of Mississippi Must Fight Whis-
key Traffic.

Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, the we'll
known temperance worker from Geor-
gia, addressed a fair-sized audience at
the First Methodist church last night
The speaker pleaded for strengthen
ed efforts against the liquor interests |
of the country, both by moral and fl
nancial support.
Mrs. Armor spoke for about an
hour, and was given close attention
by the audience. She spoke with the
earnestness of conviction and the
realization from her experiences, and
declared that the liquor interests are
endeavoring to dominate the elective
bodies of the state and nation. Mrs.
Armor thought the liquor traffic
should be stamped out by the lawmak-
ers of the government and said the
time is coming when the people who
want the manufacture of liquor stop
ped will rise up in arms and destroy
the plants manufacturing intoXicants
if the lawmakers refuse to give the
/ desired relief.
| The address was interspersed with
humor and an occasional story to illus
trate the effects liquor has on men.
/ Mrs. Armor said she was glad to be
| in Hattiesburg, but had not come here
for her health She said she wanted
to assist in reorganizing w. c. T. U.
in this city and keeping up the fight
against the whiskey traffic.
The audience was told that the IL
quor interests of the country have
banded themselves and sworn to hold
the balance of power at Washington
and in the state capitols within ten
years, and that they would stop at
nothing-bribery or corruption-to
gain their ends.
"They know that unless they do so
the w. c. T. U. fight will have been
availing and that temperance shall
reign at Washington and we shall be
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interests whose product is despoiling
the lives of the men of our nation, -
she said, and told how 81 100000 had
been set aside by the liquor trade to
pay the expenses of teaching boys
and girls to drink liquor.
"The liquor men will elect the next
legislature if they can do it." contin-
ued the speaker, and the only way for
us to prevent their doing it is to see
that only those candidates are sup
ported whose lives bear out their
promise to sustain the cause of tenn
perance.
"This can only be done by informa-
ton, education. organization and con
secration," added Mrs. Armor, and it
was on the relation that the w. c. T.
U. bears to those four divisions of the
fight that the rest of her evening was
devoted. She pictured the liquor traf-
fic as sly and scheming, not making
any noise about opening the saloons,
not even mentioning the subject and
even aiding in the violation of the
prohibition laws to throw ''the people
off the track
On concluding her address, Mrs. Ar.
mour had total abstinance pledges and
membership cards in the w C. T. u
distributed, and quite number OF
them were signed and returned.
Mrs. Armour will speak at the
First Methodist church again tonight
at 1880 o'clock, and urges all who are
in sympathy with the prohibition
movement to attend. In her appeal tC
the people to attend the address, Mrs
; Armour said: 81 hope every woman
who loves Hattiesburg and its future
will be present to support me and len6
cheer to the good fight that is going
on"