The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-11-14
PROHIBITION FOR
THE ENTIRE NATION
Governor Hodges Says Liquor
Traffic Will Soon be Banished.
M. r. PATTERSON SPEAKS.
Former Tennessee Governor Tells
Convention Why He Changed His
Convictions i'm Regard to Saloon.

Columbus, o., Nov. 13.-Predict-
ing that a resolution prohibiting the
traffic in intoXicants as beverages in
the United States and all territories
under its jurisdiction soon would be
adopted by Congress and declaring
that eff l am then governor of Kan
sas / will Immediately convene the
legislature in special session if neces-
sary for the purpose of ratifying the
amendment" Governor George II.
Hodges of Kansas last night threw
the fifteenth biennial convention of
the American Anti-Saloon League
into an uproar of applause.
Governor Hanna of North Dakota,
another speaker, gave statistics to
show the prosperity of his state un-
brewers year book" showed no con-
sumption in his state of their manu-
facture i'm 1911.
The day session was brought to a
climax with stirring address by
former Governor NJ. r. Patterson OF
Tennessee, in which he gave reasons
for his enlisting with the anti-saloon
movement.
"The Anti-Saloon League and
have not always been friends" said
Mr.. Patterson. "The paths we travel
ed were wide apart. But the path I
travelled turned in its course. 1t ran
to the other and we now find our
selves marching in the same direc-
tion, actuated by the same desire to
destroy the traffic in liquor and re
deem a nation from its curse.
"I am neither ashamed nor abaSh-
ed to stand before this great audience
and acknowledge the wrong when
nnnn advocated nOlipiac W uyntId
have made legal trade which have
come to look upon as having no
rightful place in Christian civiliza-
stion."
Commenting on one of his own
messages to the Tennessee legisla-
ture in which he opposed further leg
islation to regulate the saloon traffic,
Mr.. Patterson declared that at that
time those were his honest convic-
tions based upon a misguided judg-
ment. Continuing, he said:
"I have seen the trail of liquor i'm
the criminal courts where I have
prosecuted crime. l know and have
been a participant in it's paralyzing
and corroding influence in the social
and public life of our national capi-
tol. AS the governor of Tennessee /
have seen ii veritable and raging
cred its defenders and assailants, and
from which sprang divisions in par
ties, disputes in families and dissen-
sions in churches.
"Going through life have seen 1t
drag down many of the associates of
my boyhood, blasting their hopes and
consigning them to untimely graves.
have seen its forked lightning strike
my first born-the child of my young
manhood. At last / have felt it's
foul and stealthy blow as it turned
upon me in it's deadly and shaming
wrath-upon me, who had pleaded
before the people for its very exist
tence.
'I cast aside all pride Of opinion
and went to the throne of Almighty
Cod. There on bended knees asked
for light and strength and they came.
THE saloon cannot produce one
veracious witness in its favor 1t
stands a convicted felon and must re-
ceive the sentence of the law. 1t
must go, never to return and, with
the going of the saloon, liquor itself
should go"