Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-11-13
Malcolm Patterson. of Tennes-
see. Takes Special Train to
Anti-SaIoon Convention.
TELLS HIS LIFE STORY
Declares That Private Woes
Moved Him to Champion the
Cause He Once Fought.

Columbus. Ohio. Nov 12.-.At IL ious,
ness session of the Anti Saloon Leagues
national convention this afternoon. it
was expected that Rev. lsurleN Baker
of Columbus. Ohio. would be re- elected
general superintendent Joshua i.cver-
ing. of Baltimore Md. long prominent
in the councils of the prohibition party,
at the morning session predicted that
the ban of prohibition would be placed
against the manufacture and sale Of
alcoholic liquors before 1920.
Columbus. Ohio, Non Is. - Delegates
to the National Anti-Saloon league
| convention here We're electrified this
afternoon when Malcolm Il. Patterson
twice governor of Tennessee, and noted
throughout the country for mis- pro-
saloon views. told the stois OF his
change of view. whereby he became i
vigorous advocate of the temperance
cause.
! Today's session was known as Gov
ernors' day. notwithstanding the gov
ernors present We're not to be honored
! from the platform until evening. The
program for that period called for adj
| dresses by Governors Hanna OF North
Dakota, and Hodges OF Kansas.
, Governor Patterson came 10 Column
bus in a special car accompanied by
Gov Ben w. Hooper, who succeeded
/ him as TennesSee's chief executive. TO
give his Endorsement to Il nations wide
| program. He said in part:
| Not Ashamed to Change.
'.r'hc Anti Saloon league and have
not always been friends. The paths
We Travelled We're wide apart; Ihey
seemed so parallel that ii looked in
credible that they should ever meet.
But they have met. The path travelled
turned in its course. 1t ran into the
/ other. and we now find ourselves in the
/ same road marching in the same dircc
I ton under the some flag. nctu,lcd ny
! the same desire to- destroy the traffie
\ i'm liuuor and redeem a nation from Its
Icurs..
:! Il am aware that to have suddenls
4, changed the views of mature manhood
which l once asserted and proclaimed
from one end of Tennessee to the other
Ihas excited surprise and provoked
comment. But this is "a world o
change Stagnation is decay. an'
progress is the command of the age ailt
} the hope of mortality. l ann neither
ashamed nor abashed to stand befor'
; this great audience and acknowledg'
the wrong, when once advocated
II trade which have come to look OF
as having no rightful place In tn
scheme and economy of Christian civil
liZation."
Regrets His Record.
Commenting on one of his message:
to the Tennessee Legislature I'm whlcl
he opposed further legislation to regu'
late the liquor traffic. Mr.. Patterson
reiterated that at that time those were
Ihis honest convictions based on mis-
guided judgment He continued
Il say to you, fully conscious of the
meaning and responsibility of the dec
laration. that il this message has en-
couraged lawlessness or ever beei
sought as :, refuge for violators OF tn
law, II Ii had to stand AS my last cx
preston ON the liquor question.
, would consume ii in the living ilre'
and erase it forever from the mintl
and memories OF men.
INV life has had deep sorroWa. NJ.
! soul has been tossed ON the waves o
angry seas: my nature has been pro
: foundly touched and stirred. ! faN
seen the trail of liquor in the crlnha
courts where have prosecuted crime
. IL know and have been a participant
in it's paralyzing and coirodihs IN
$ iiuence in the social and p'lblic iiit o
o,li. national capitol.
His Own Son Victim.
Going through life ! have seen
drag down many of the associates o
my boyhood blasting their hopes :ti
consisli,g them TO uutlmcly graves.
have seen its forked lightning 5trilS
my first hornthc child Of my youn
: manhood. and ! have borne Mith mn
the suffering and tried To hclp 'iiii'
his brave but sometimes inclanehol
: struggle for redemption. At last. ! fc!
its stealthy blow as il turned on iae i
its deadly and shalnilg wrath on ms
who had pleaded before the people ia
its very existence. Men have ralle