The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-14
PATTERSON IS A FEATURE
FORMER GOVERNORS ADDRESS,
FULL OF PATHOs, is CHEERED.
Anti-SaloOn League Wants Congress
to Stop Traffic, and VIII Draft
an Appeal for Dry Law.

COLUMBUS, Ohio.-Predicting
that resolutions prohibiting the traf-
fic in intoxicants as beverages in the
| United States and all territories UNI
der it's Jurisdiction soon would be
adopted by congress and declaring
| that ''if | am governor of Kansas |
will Immediately convene the legis-
lature in special session for the pur-
pose of ratifying the amendment,
Governor George H. Hodges of Kan
sas tonight threw fifteenth biennial
convention of the American Anti-Sa-
loon League into an uproar of ap-
plause.
Governor l.. B. Hanna OF North
Dakota, another speaker, gave sta
tistics to show the prosperity of his
state under prohibition reign and
said the brewers year book" show
ed no consumption in his state of
their manufacture in 1911.
Patterson's Address Is Featured.
The days session was brought to
u climax with a stirring address by
former Governor Patterson Of Ten
nessee, in which he gave reasons for
his enlisting with the anti-saloon
movement and reviewed his former
life and activities, which, according
to his statements, had been with the
forces opposed to suppression of the
liquor traffic.
my life has had deep sorrows.
My soul has been tossed on the waves
of angry seas; my nature has been
profoundly touch and stirred" said
Mr.. Patterson.
II have seen the trail of liquor in
the criminal courts, where | have
prosecuted, l know anil have be IN a
participant in its paralyzing and cor
roding influence in the social and
public life of our national capital. AS
the governor of Tennessee / have
seen it a veritable and raging center
of storm around which were gathered
its defenders and assailants, and
from which sprang divisions in par
ties, disputes in families and dissen-
sion in churches.
Has Seen Its Effects.
Going through life / have seen it
drag down many of the associates of
my boyhood, blasting their hopes and
them to untimely graves;
1 have seen it's forked lightning
strike my first-born-t the chilu of my
young manhood, and | have borne
with him the suffering and sried to
help him in his brave but sometimes
melancholy struggles for redemption.
At last have felt its foul and steal
thy blow as it turned upon me in its
deadly wrath-upon me who had
pleaded before the people for its very
existence. Men have called me
strong; and while l could see its
harm in others l thought myself inn
mune as thousands before my time
have thought and suffered for the
thought.
''All this / knew and felt without
a revelation of The deep patches and
meaning of it all. | indeed held, for
[ was cropping and my feet were
stumbling in the dark.
''When logic and reason gave no
answer cast aside all pride of opin-
ion, all thought of what the world
might say or think, and went to the
throne of God Almighty There on
Bonded knees | asked for light and
strength, and they came. The cur
tains of the night parted and the way
was clear. / arose a changed man.
"The saloon cannot produce one
veracious witness in its favor as it
stands indicted before the bar of pub
lie opinion.
ut stands as a convicted felon and
must receive the sentence of the law
It must go never to return and with
that going of the saloon liquor itself
should go. | favor prohibition in any
form that will either reduce or de-
stroy the liquor traffic. favor it
personal wide, town wide, state wide,
nation wide and world wide ="
The program of the convention
calls for three sessions tomorrow,
the convention concluding its work
tomorrow night. On Friday the
council of 100. which will formulate
the demands on congress for submits
sion of the federal amendment to the
constitution providing for nation
wide prohibition, will meet, and it is
expected that 1000 signatures will
be attached to the petition. including
governors, former governors and
members of congress.