The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-23
Norfolk Man Can See
But Three Reasons for
Such Attitude.
DIRECTS WORDS
AT LEGISLATORS
DR.. Landlord Says Those Who
Vote Against 1t Are Bought"
Have Relatives in Ii
quor Business or Are
Descendants Of
Weaklings.

I.iyius Lankford, 81. D., Nor1oih
surgeon, asserted yesterday That any
member of the General Assemoi! "no
votes against the enabling act is ac-
tu.tcJ by ono OF three reasons
.'either he is man with price ana
the goods have been delivered, or ne
is related to a liquor dealer ana mas
not enough manhood TO go nome ana
say he voted against the WhiskeS IN
terests or ne ia tho descendant or Il
1reaklinp" This charge was made by
Dir Iankford at the afternoon session
or tho thirteenth annual convention OF
the Anti-Saloon League OF Virginia, In
the Seventh Street Christian Church.
during an address on the evils OF
alcoholism from n medical standpoint.
Three sessions Of the league marked
the work of the convention yestehay'
and the same number Will be held to-
day Tho auditorium Of the large
church was well filled at each meeting.
which, In addition to addresses from
notable temperance workers. was
utilized for the reading OF reports
from the various officers of the or
ganization.
Lankford Address Tx Feature.
From a public standpoint, the ad-
dress OF Dr.. Landlord was the most
irnnortant feature OF the day. The
s,caker. using statistics compiled hy
celebrated German scientists, stated
that alcohol WAS ruininS the manhood
and womannood, not only OF the Ger
man empire. but Of America as well.
'Chronic alcoholism" said DIR. Lank-
ford has a wonderful effect on the
peculiar structure Of the brain and
causes atrophy of the organs. which
should be the strongest. We must cdu-
cate our boys along scientific facts. and
recent investigation Wills show that
IL 10 80 per cent of the children OF
fathers addicted TO the use OF alcohol
die during -.he. nEst year OF their lfe,
while from 45 10 72 per cent of those
that survive, Inherit one OF the hve
uiseases-!dtocy, insanity, drunkenness,
Grim. or epilepsy
1T lis pathetic TO see legislators OF
Virginia stand up and say that they
believe In letting man have his rights.
as an excuse to defeat prohibition. Old
negro women are put In the peniten-
tiary for peddling cocaine In small
Quantities Not one man in 10000 uses
cocaine, but yet they say they are TAX
ing away mans rights when we at
tempt to take temptation from alcohol
out OF his path.
Would Like TO Prescribe for Them.
az would like to prescribe for some
of those members OF the Legislature
who are against the enabling act II
would be found that these men vote.
because they have price. and that
price has been paid. and the goods de-
Ivereu, OF tntS HaNc Hot
enough to return horne and tell their
liquor selling relatives that they voted
against their interests or that they
are the sons OF grandsons or men ply
sically unable to beget sons that
possess moral fibre, or, In other words.
descendants OF weak!ings. There are
better men at home than those In the
Senate-men who came from pure
fathers and pure mothers. When a man
cannot he appealed to. there is some
mental weakness. and the poor fellow
should be excused.
Perhaps the most remarkable feat
urc Of the convention was the sight OF
a negro speaker before an audience
COMPOSED wholly OF white men and
women Rev. Charles F.. Morris. u.
D., LII D., was the speaker. and he
delivered an address that was consid
cred one of the best heard during the
day.
Dr. Morris, who is pastor of the
largest colored church in Norfolk, told
OF his efforts to drive the saloons out
of the "black belt" of the city. Liquor
cannot be sold in Brambleton, Park
Place or Ghent, three principal white
residential districts of Norfolk. he said
but the saloons have been driven to
the negro section-thc homes and
work places of the race-wnere they
have done much to destroy the ef-
fciency of the negroes as workmen
ana laDorerS
Negro Mikes Strong Appeal.
The efforts to drive the saloon out
of the district were described in de-
tail DIR. Morris went TO the principal
business men and to the courts with
his plea
you have taken the ballot away
from u.s." said the speaker. yet we
are outraged by having this scourge
forced upon u.s. and we appeal to your
chivalry to relieve us from being de-
baucned and pauperized any longer
''Thc most influential citizens rallied
TO our support. and on May /, the
'black belt Will be freed of the sa-
looms, unless the power of the courts
is taken away by the Legislature.
ask this league 10 use it's power and
Influence TO aid us ir keeping fifty sa-
looms from breathing the breath of
hell into our nostrils when we stop
from our homes or walk to our work"
The l:quor interests were described
by Dr. Morris as an army. THE sa.
loon Is tho captain" he said, '.the
brewery the colonel: the distiIlery the
general, and the devil the commander
in-chief. The clubroom is the recruit
ing station; the harroom the parade
ground the jail tho barracks; hell the
headquarters, and potter's field tho
national cemetery" -
baltimore Speakers Are Heard.
The chief interest of the morning
session centred nthe addresses of VIII
liam f. Cochran and Joshua Leyering,
both of Baltimore and temperance ad-
vocates OF national influcnce. Whiio
neither Of those speakers especially da-
rccted his address to tho effect tenn
perance work and the convention
should have with the lawmakers in
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