Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-17
BIG RALLY PLANNED
Temperance Hosts to Gather
in Meeting Tonight.
HOLD CONFERENCE TODAY
Morning and Afternoon Devoted to
Consideration of Work.
FAILURE TO SECURE RESULTS
Mrs. Mary Harris Armor Of Georgia
Says Such Workers Should
Be Spanked.
HOLD CONFERENCE TODAY
FAILURE TO SECURE RESULTS

Conferences of the Anti-Saloon League
and Womans Christian Temperance Union
delegates were continued at the First
congregational Church this morning and
this afternoon. and monster rally is to
De held at the church tonight. at which
Mrs, Mary Harris Armor of Georgia and
a number of well known workers III the
cause of prohibition will speak.
| An address by Mrs Armor and reports
] of a number of officers and committees
were the features of yesterdays opening
sessions of the conference In her ten
minute speech Mrs. Armor fiayed temper
ance workers who. by reason Of indiffer-
| ence or for other causes, fail to bring
about results in their own states, and ex-
pressed the belief that such workers
should be spanked.
You have common sense, religion.
reason, Judgment and God o. your side
and If You cannot win with that COM
binatiOn YOU can never win the fight for
| the abolition of the saloon and the liquor
| traffic"
Rev DR.. A. ]. Barton of Galveston,
Tex. chairman of the committee of fiji
teen of the Anti-Saloon League of Amer
lea in charge of the work of organizing
support for the Kenyon Sanders bill now
pending in Congress. criticised members
of Congress for lodging the liquor ques-
ton.
This measure would undoubtedly have
been passed by Congress at the last ses-
sion,' said Rev. Mr.. Barton. had it not
been for the fact that national cam
paign was opening. Men who are active
in the big game of politics shy nightly
at the saloon question. They will talk
loudly reform, but they close their
eyes to the greatest of all reforms, the
abolition of the saloon.
Will Attack Sanders Amendment.
The amendment to the original Ken
yon bill. offered by Senator Sanders of
Tennessee. according to the statements
Of several speakers at yesterdays meet
ing, will be the point on which the liquor
interests will concentrate their fire, in
the effort to show that the amendment
is unconstitutional. This amendment pro-
VideS, in effect. for the prohibition of in
terstate shipment of liquor into dry
states when the liquor so entering inter-
state commerce Is designed to he sold, In
violation of the laws of the dry state.
Rev. Wilbur +. Crafts of this city said
in discussing Rev. Mr.. BartOn's report
and address:
II am reliably informed that Senator.
Lodge and other senator's are prepared
10 maintain that the bill violate the sa-
credness of interstate contracts, and that
the brewers cannot be held responsible
for shipment of liquors into dry terri
tory when that shipment is actually con-
signed to 'speak-easy.' because the
brewer does not Know that the shipment
is in fact going to Speak-easy."
DIR. A. j. Pickney of Georgia took Wig
orous exception to the statement made
by Rev Mr.. Barton to the effect that if
the bill is passed and is then declared
unconstitutional the prohibition workers
will accept a substitute measure Just as
good
Officers chosen at yesterday afternoons
session are:
Rev. DR.. A. j. Barton. chairman; Mrs.
Lillian n. Nj. Stevens. first vice chairman:
r. +. Odds, the automobile manufacturer
of Lansing, Mich. second vice chairman:
r. h. Rankin. Omarga, ILL.,. third vice
chairman; Wilbur Goblin, Alabama.
fourth vice chairman: Rev. Dr. Donald
Macleod of this city, fifth vice chair
man: Rev. b. r. Nicholson, Washington.
secretary; Ben ID. Wright, Lockpori, n.
y, first assistant secretary Mrs. r. f..
Patterson. president of the Georgia State
w. Z. L. u, second assistant secretary.