Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-06-05
Antl.SaloOn Convention.

!, / dutl.SdlOOu league mel IN the L our
House, in Woodstock, at O'Clock
last Saturday, with the president
Ed. E. B. Shaver, in the chair I,
the absence of the secretary, Mr.. B
F. Myers, Mr.. J. D. Wine was made
Temporary Secretary.
| Devotional exercises were conduct
led by Rev. F. B. Chubb, an address
of welcome was delivered by Rev. J
r Jacobs aud was responed to b
Rev, DR.. Repass.
Il Rev. F. B. Chubb addressed the
Iconvention upon the subject ''Wh,
should the man that drinks vote dry?'i
Hon. F. S. Tavenner explained tn,
enabling act in very strong speech,
and gave the history of the temper.
ence fight in the State Legislature,
from the time that Judge Mann stood
practically alone up to the passage
of the Enabling Act. Judge Taven-
ner is the author of the amendment
to the act, which deals with quSlifi-
cations of the voters for the Prohi
bition Election to be held the I'D O
September next, declared that the
coming election does not deal with
the question, whether whiskey should
be sold to be used for medicine or
not as that question is left for the
next regular session of the Legisla
ture to dispose of, but the issue at
stake in, the present contest is whether
the barron shall cease to exist in our
state or not
| At 2 O'Clock after devotional service
conducted by Rev. Geo. A. Copp, ex-
Governor Glenn delivered an elo-
quent and very strong argument in
favor of State Wide prohibition.
Gov. Glenn first dwelt on the evils
visited ON the individual, family and
State by the sale of strong drink.
He asserted that idiocy, insanity,
poverty and crime prevailed more in
wet States than in dry States. The
phenomenal development in recent
year of his own State North Carolina
was held forth as an illustration of
what commonwealth prohibiting
! the liquor traffic might accomplish.
Virginia which he declared the grand
est and most revered Commonwealth
of the nation had also made progress
but the fact that our growth in the
last few years had not kept pace with
North Cardinals was asserted and
the speaker seemed to Imply that the
cause was largely or wholly due to
the liquor traffic.
The Governor handled without
gloves the proposition that liquor
helps business He declared that no
large business concerns wonld toll
crate the employee who mixed liquor
with business. One of the last phases
of the question treated was the eff
ficiency of prohibition laws. He met
the claim that ''as more liquor is
sold in dry State than wet one"
by asking why the liquor dealers as
sociations appropriated millions of
dollars to fight prohibition in cam
.paigns like that just begun in Vir-
ginia. The assertion that liquor is
sold openly and generally in cities in
the Southern prohibition States he
fatty denied. Beer with low per-
cent of alcohol could be sold legally
under the Georgia prohibition law.
While some time no doubt beer of
high per cent. of alcohol was mixed
with the ''near beer" Or ''high- beer"
yet the law generally was well en-
forced. Gov. Patterson, of Tennessee,
had declared the prohibition law OF
Tennessee fool law" and while
Governor had advised his people to
disregard it, but since then Patterson
had been converted to the prohibition
cause and dry Governor was en-
forcing the law.
AT night Hon. Geo. N. Conrad ex-
VChOCo VIC dSCUOHidh Sdii W W.
people to come over and help them
drive this traffick from the borders of
our fair state. He was followed by
Hon. M. l.. Walton on the subject
"why state wide?"
The officers for the ensuing year
are: President, Geo. w. Ring, Vice
President, j. D. Hamaker, Secretary,
j. D. Wine, Treasurer, F. D. Ma
phis. Representatives,: Lee, Rev.
DR.. Repass; Ashby, L. Bruce Wolf;
Madison, j. Monroe Hottel; Stone
wall, Geo. W. Miley. Johnston, DR..
L. D. Shaver and Davis, John w.
Copp.
The convention adopted the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Resolved 1, That we endorse the
policy and work Of the National Anti
Saloon League in its attitude for
nationwide prohibition and that we
hereby petition our representatives in
in congress- to work and vote for the
amendment before that body-and
that we direct the secretary of this
meeting to send copy of this reso-
luton to said representa- YES in con-
gress.
Resolved 2, That we endorse the
Virginia Anti Saloon League in its
battle for State Wide Prohibition,
that we pledge it our hearty moral
and material support to make Vir-
ginia dry.
| Resolved 3, That we view with
gratitude the blessing OF God upon
the cause of Prohibition in state and
nation, and express the hope that the
beverage liquor traffic will soon be
least out as utterly unworthy of the
protection OF our government.
Resolved 4, That we pledge oul
HEARTY support to the cause of State
Wide Prohibition in the coming cleo
ition and promise our leaders in
this great movement co operation in