The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-23
GOV. GLENN SPEAKS
 ON PROHIBITION Large Crowd At BijOu Thea
 ire Yesterday OPENS THE CAMPAIGN If He Was Mayor of Birmingham and Could Choose Police Force He
 Would Drive Out Blind
 Tigers
OPENS THE CAMPAIGN

Former Gov. R. B. Glenn of North Carolina made plea for the aboli- tion of the liquor traffic in the state of Alabama and the entire nation in an address yesterday afternoon at the Biiou theatre His speech was heard by a large crowd. the first floor and gal lery being packed with people
 "The fighting governor of the old North state was introduced by R. NJ. Goodall, who declared that the speak
 CT was here to sound the first note
 in the fourth prohibition campaign in
 Alabama" Mir Goodal paid glow
 ing tribute to Mir. Glenn and said that
 the prohibition fight would not end
 until liquor had been driven from the
 whole country
 In beginning his address Governor
 Glenn stated that he had come to speak
 on the greatest subject that confronts
 the American people today and that
 he hoped his remarks would fire the hearts of his hearers "so that they
 would wage a fight that would drive
 the liquor curse" from the bound
 aries of the state of Alabama Face to Face
 Let Us look at the question face
 to face'' he said If the sale of strons
 drink makes better men and better women; if it brings us peace; if it is
 a good thing-then let us help on this
 good thing; let us stop circulating pc titlons and let us have it everywhere
 But suppose it Is not a good thing suppose 1t Is digging tho graves oi
 many people; suppose 1t Is opening
 the doors of the penitentiary and tho jail for thousands of people and wiring 1 ing the hearts of mothers. taking tn, clothes from the backs of helpless, children and sinking the people into ar eternal hell. If 1t is not a good thine let us all stand together and fight un. | til it Is driven from the country
 'ls 1t good thing? Don't answer
 me but give your answer to youi
 God"
 Governor Glenn told an experience ht
 had with the legislature of New Jer.
 sey when he spoke before it in behalf of the anti-prohibition forces. "Tht brewers were seated on one side oi
 the house and the dry people on tn, other. l challenged any man in the
 midst of the brewers to come to the platform and say that his business was 8 blessing to the community. Not ono of the brewers came forward. l issued he same challenge to the saloon mer of Birmingham.
 Take Journey
 q want to take you with me on q journey for a short time" said thu
 governor Let us first visit a saloon The pictures on the walls are the low est the lewdest and intended and cal. culated to arouse what Is meanest and lowest in a man. The language in the room is the vilest--the name of Goo is defiled and we hear things that are
 against law and order. If you were to take a stenographer into saloor and have him take down all that he hears between the hours of 8 and II
 and if any decent newspaper in the country were asked to run what the stenographer wrote out--they would
 refuse. Is saloon a fit thing to have in Birmingham, in Alabama, in the United States?'
 q will give references of men who once had position and wealth and char acter and who were ruined by drink One man In Jackson, Mich. went witt his wife and two other women to in- vestigate conditions in that city. En- tering small. wretched house they
 saw three children, almost in rags huddled close to a small fire Tn one corner was an old woman, feeble and shaking. In the center of the room was
 woman, half drunk, surrounded bS
 bottles of liquor. When asked If the olo woman was her mother she replied 1T the affirmative. The man told her thai If the mother was not cared for at onct she would die within a few days ant the woman answered: Damn her. le her die.' I use this story to illustrate the depths that people can sink to or account of the use of strong drink. Jail Conditions
 | Governor Glenn told of conditions in thu penitentiaries, jails. poorhouses and in
 sane asylums. "Thirty-three and one-thir' | per cent of the people in insane asyumi are sent there because of drink: 70 pe cent of criminals go to jail on account O drink and 93 per cent of capital cases oc i cur from drink he stated. 'rhe people | Of the state who vote for license ar' partly responsible for young men beini sent to the scaffod.'
 Governor Glenn stated that 100000 deathi occur each year which could be drectl, or indirectly traced 10 strong drink. H. said that between 400O and 800 deaths fl Alabama each year occur on account o liquor.
 Tn the name of 100000 paupers.. 800 00 criminals and in the name of millions oi starving women and children, I indie this curse snd call on the people of the state of Alabama to vote it from tn, state,' he declared.
 of I were mayor of Birmingham ant could choose my own chief of police ant police department I could drive every blind tiger from the city. It has beer said that if the saloons were driven iron the city grass would grow on the street. and poverty would come. I cite condition. in North Carolina to disprove this theory The attendance in the schools of Nortl Carolina has been almost doubled sine, liquor was driven out.
 "The person who says that prohibition causes more drinking is either fool O. knave or both. and I believe he fl both. You people in Alabama did not giv, prohibition chance. If prohibition caused more drinking the brewers would shou for statewide prohibition.
 In North Carolina
 "In North Carolina we put the boot leggers on the roads for dng sentences Here the policemen shut their eyes an, couldn't see blind tiger when the, walked past one, and the judge gave then slight fine when they were arrested" Governor Glenn phophesied that the sal of liquor would be stopped in the United States within the next 15 years. To prove he said. that conditions hn Alabama wa better he said that when statewide pro hibition first took effect there were IA counties in the state where liquor wa