Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-31
Delegation Of Women Wants
Illicit Traffic Stopped.
ASKS ENACTMENT OF LAW
Support the Liquidation Desired by
White Ribboners.
GEORGIA CYCLONE A SPEAKER
Advocates Appear This Morning Be.
fore Judiciary subcommittee
Of the House.

MEN are divided into three classes.
There are men who love their liquor,
men who sell liquor and politicians who
are on both sides Of the question:
Mrs. r. F. Irwin OF Washington, Ca,
made that statement to the House COM
mittee on judiciary today at the conclu-
sion OF her speech urging a law forbid
ding interstate traffic In alcoholic liquors.
Feathers on the hats Of a hundred women
nodded approvingly.
The committee looked pleased until
Representative Rucker Of Missouri spoke
UP. Il believe all Of us are on one side
OF this question: he said, but some or
us don't like to talk about it, said he.
More than one hundred Georgia
women crowded into the committee
room this morning, to give the mem
bers Of the subcommittee on civil and
criminal law five-minute sketches, in
which the blind tiger Of the southern
states played a leading role. Although
the Georgia delegation had with it a
large number Of typical Georgia men
in wide black hats, low collars and
full-skirted frock coats. it was the
women VINO did most of the talking.
The delegation appeared in support of
| the same legislation that the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union state
| heads and national officers talked
| about before corresponding commit
tee on the Senate side yesterday
| morning. The w. c. T. U. wants to
get law which will enable q dry
state to keep other states from ship
ping liquor into the dry domain.
RumOrs that the Georgia Cyclone,
Mrs. Mary Harris Armor of Eastman.
Ca, was in the committee room and was
about to speak brought curious repre-
sentatives and House Office building en-
ployes to the room to see this champion
spellbinder for temperance. Mrs. Armor
did talk, but contrary to all expectations
she talked almost as slowly as the aver
age, just to show that she could travel on
a. low gear; but she burst into a magnifi-
cent squirt of speed toward the end, and
wound up in a roar of applause from
her friends from Georgia.
District Represented.
Two Washington women were promi-
nent at the hearing this morning. One
Of them was Mrs. Emma Sanford Shell
ton. president Of the District Of Columbia
branch Of the w. c. T. T., and the other
was Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, national
superintendent of legislation.
Ellen NJ. Stone. the famous American
missionary who spent some time as q
captive in the hands of Macedonian
bandits, told rum story" from the
Balkans. the point of the narrative
being that she was greatly shocked
one time to see a little picturesque
caravan vending it's way across pass
| in the Balkan mountains. the mules
| bearing huge packing cases all plainly
| marked Boston rum"
And there I was. Boston woman.
Think Of it," she exclaimed.
Mrs. Lillian NJ. N. Stevens. national
president, a resident of Portland. Me-.
and that the blind tiger is an active
beast She asked for the Legislation
demanded by the 100000 women she
represents, because without 1t the
United States is put in the position of
breaking state laws.
Conditions in the States.
told how the liquor boxes are piled UP
| at theoexpress stations in her neighbor-
hood, despite the fact that Georgia is
dry; and Mrs. George Green Of North
Carolina said the blind tiger, had clawed
the white fabric of that state in shame
full manner.
1--WE have laws for the protection OF
our home and our children-now we want
you men to give us way to be backed
up by these laws"
Mrs. Howard Hoge, state president OF
Virginia: Mrs. Ella "A. Boole OF New
York city and Mrs. Ella M. George OF
Pennsylvania gave short sketches OF bad
conditions In states that are considered
to be dry.
something to think about in her several
word pictures Of crimes committed on
account of drunkenness in a dry state.
Address Of Mrs. Armor.
At the temperance rally at the First
Congregational Church last night Mrs
Mary Harris Armor Of Eastman, Ga.
told Of a debate out in Oregon, in which
her opponent was Clarence Darrow, the
attorney Mr.. Darrow, 1t seems, was
| engaged by the liquor men to assume
their side Of the argument. He told an
audience one night that If the women
and the temperance cranks were per-
| mitted to do away with the sale OF liquor
mighty soon they would abolish chickens.
that they wouldn't stop with putting the
everlasting kibosh on the whisky trafhc
but some fanatic who didn't like chicken
| would say that nobody else should eat It
either, and the white ribb0ners would
| fall in line. with the result that never
more would the succulent broiler or the
roast capon brighten the lives Of men.
Mrs Armor answered Mr.. Darrow the
following day. She said that she was
surprised that SO brainy q man should
descend to the use of such babyish
argument-that intelligence should SO far
debase itself as to talk such rot. "But, !"
said Mrs. Armor, lust az soon as 1t
comes to pass that q man will eat fried
chicken and go home and beat his wife:
| as soon as it happens that q man con-
sumes a chicken potpie and then thro VS.
his helpless children out in the snow;
| when a man devours roast chicken and It
goes to his head and makes him kill his
| best friend, right then will go out on
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