Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-18
THE SITUATION AND
HOW TO MEET II"
SUBJECT OF MRS. ARMoUR's AD.
DRESS MONDAY NIGHT.
"A Large Crowd Present-HandIed the
Subject Without Gloves and Given
Close Attention for Two
Hours.

land BraZOS county IN the interest OF
statewide prohibition at the skating
rink last night. There was very
large crowd present. many OF them
being from the country. No doubt
there would have been an overflow at
tendance had not the very threatening
weather early in the evening kept
many away.
The speaker was introduced by
Prof. ]. H. Allen, who said he would
not take up any time, as 1t was too
precious, and in very few words pre-
scented Mrs. Armour to the audience
as the president of the Womans
Christian Temperance Union OF Geor-
gia, and one OF the greatest workers
for prohibition in America. Mrs. Ar
mour was warmly applauded when she
arose.
She began by saying that she was
not now the president of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union Of Geor-
gia, but that she had had that honor
for four years. She gave up the presi-
dency when Georgia went dry and
tackled a bigger job-to see the whole
world dry. Mrs. Armour stated her
subject to be "The Situation and How
to Meet It." and said she was going
to talk for eternity, because she ex-
pected when she stood before the bar
of God to again come face to face with
the words she would speak that night.
for when the books are opened we
shall be judged according to the deeds
done in the body. She expressed the
hope that the audience would be
Itv in nar nnH hnar ne for
eternity.
She spoke of Georgia going dry and
what great surprise it caused all
over the United States. Tennessee
went dry, Mississippi went dry, Ala
bama went dry, Oklahoma went Org,
and there were so many states going
dry the rum forces became alarmed
and got busy and are now waging the
battle of their lives. Texas is the key
to the situation and the guns of the
combined liquor forces of the world
are trained on Texas. If the prohibit
tionists would arise to the duty of the
hour and carry the state, the fight
would be given such an impetus that
it would be Goodbye. Old Booze!"
Il am talking to the church of God,
said the speaker, "and my brother, If
you have made up your mind on this
question, If you are an anti and will
not listen to reason, If no argument
can move you, you have sold out to
the devil lock, stock and barrel, and
| am not talking to your kind"
There was no argument, she de-
clared, that could be made in defense
of whisky. She had met their speak
ers on many a field, and when she got
through with them she always felt
like she had spanked a sick baby.
She declared the liquor traffic was
on trial for its life and the voters
were the jurors, and the ones to rem
der the verdict What will it be?
Here the speaker depressed at
length on the evil of alcohol per Sc,
that is, to the man who used it. Its
blighting effect on his mental, moral
and physical being She quoted from
eminent medical authority to show
that it is the worst and most far
reaching poison known to scie?ce
She was particularly hard on a GER
tain Texas woman who visited Geor-
gia and then filed the liquor papers
of the state with "a lot of falsehoods
and rot about how prohibition failed
to prohibit in Georgia." She said it
was bad enough for man to sell out
to the liquor interests, but when a
woman sold out to them she was gone
beyond redemption.
The speaker said the ants howled
about personal liberty, "self-govern-
ment," "self-control," ETC.. whom the
truth of the matter was the first thing
a drink of liquor did for a man was
to make him lose his self-control and
his boosted selt-government, and if he
stuck to it long enough his personal
liberty was gone and he became
slave, bound body and soul to The ac-
cursed thing.
The speaker declared that ignor-
ance was both father and mother of
the liquor traffic. and therefore the
grandfather of every iniquity on the !
face of the earth. The brewers, she |
said, were trying to play on the ignor- |
ance of the people by yelling loss of !
revenue and increased taxation" The !
speaker said W. were nearly all poor /
people and paid but little taxes, and /
there was no reason to get scared on |
that score. The truth of the matter
was the brewers and wholesale whis- |
ky dealers were heavy taxpayers and |
they wanted the open saloon so the |
poor, ignorant men would continue to
drink enough whisky to pay their !
taxes. That this revenue did not orig |
mate with, nor come out of the liquor |
traffic, but it was paid by the men |
who drink the liquor
The address was given the closest |
attention throughout and frequently |
applauded. She closed with a strong
appeal to the men to arise in their
might and do their full duty on next |
Saturday
Mrs. Armour will sreak at the rink |