The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-17
Noted Evangelist, Here To Boost
HobsOn Amendment, Sure Ex-
President Will Espouse
Temperance Cause
ANTI-LIQUOR SENTIMENT
GROWING. HE DECLARES
Says Business Men Appreciate
That Capital Invested in Rum
Trade Is Wasted

to prove great help for us In the
nationwide temperance movement
look for Roosevelt to seek the Repub-
lican presidential nomination. and |
think he's going to get It. But what
ever party he represents. and even
IL he doesn't represent any party as
q candidate, he's going to take up the
prohibition movement"
Such was the statement made Mon
day by the Rev. Sam Small. or At
lanta, Ca, former associate in evan
gelistic work with the famous Sam
Jones and who Is now in Detroit as
q representative of the Anti-Saloon
League of America in It's weeks
campaign to create sentiment In IA.
vor of the Hobson national prohibi-
ton amendment
IL am confident that Mr.. Roosevelt
will take up this movement and he
win do US a lot OF good" declared
the Rev. Mr.. Small.
Small Is more optimistic as to sue
cess than Capt. Richmond Pierson
Hobson. originator OF the amendment.
who predicted In his Sundays meet
ings here that the nation would be
"dry" by 1925.
"Of course. it's taking long shot"
said Small. "but | believe II will
come sooner than that. Things are
looking better now than they ever
were before in the history of the
country.
Il have In my possession a letter
from my friend Charlie Mccullough
or Kentucky, a distiller and former
president of the National Ass ociation
OF Distillers. In which he sign. IS that
the distillers themselves are willing
TO accept nationwide prohibition IL
congress- will give them ten years "a
which to wind up their affairs and will
reimburse them for the loss OF their
plants by the impounding Of ten per
cent OF the internal revenue collect
ed from them every year for ten
years. This scheme would be a gu,i
one for the distillers. They wouldn't
lose anything by II. as II would create
fund of approximately $z,y,G00, G0C,
with which to reimburse them for
making their property useless. while
they would still own and control their
real estate. buildings and other tick
which they could convert into ,ash or
use In other and more generally pref
liable channels.
THE Brewers. too. are seeing the
light They're getting out from un-
der. Practically all the brewers In
Ohio organized general holding
company and issued stock This stock
was sold In England. while the Ohio
ans held just enough of II to insure
control OF the business. What Is the
result. The Ohio brewers are reap
ing the profits In high salaries and
heavy expenses and the stock isn't
paying cent of dividends. The Eng
lishman is holding the sack ne cant
even sell his stock because II Is worm
only IL IL cents on the dollar.
"A ring OF distillers also combined
and sold $30,000,000 worth Of stock.
They're pursuing the same game. Just
before the stock exchange closed that
stock was selling at $40 per 500
share"
what do you think of the chances
Of passage of the Hobson amendment,
providing for O constitutional provi-
sion abolishing the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors?" asked
his interviewer.
81 think that we have a fair
chance" he said. you see the amend
ment will be placed on the congress
sional calendar some time In Decem-
Der. It will probably be year before
II comes to q vote Of the congressman.
The incoming congress Is Infinitely
stronger from our standpoint than the
outgoing one. So well stand q good
chance of getting 1t through.
I'VE already have about so per cent
of the senate and between 30 and 81
per cent OF the house. or course two
thirds, or 66 2-3 per cent OF both
houses Is required but ! think we1l
be able to get that. Certain II Is that
we are infinitely stronger than we
ever were before.
"I have been I'm SO states In my
work since Jan. 1 and have found
the people more and more In accord
with our propaganda than ever be-
fore In the nations history.
Business men generally have come
10 realize that the capital invested In
J the liquor business, which goes round
and round in sort Of eddy and never
really gets out OF the hands of the
liouo- men at all, is needed right now
more than ever before. In legitimate
lines of business and they're going to
vote TO release t.
"A lot of people think it's funny. too.
that the south, known a. the land of
the sideboard and decanter. is the
leader In the prohibition movement
The picture of the southern decanter
used to be a true one. II isn't any
more. You see. We people Of the
south used to be the elite Of the land.
We had plenty Of money and We
, didn't care for dollar just because
n was a dollar There was always
another one to take the place of the
one we spent. So we spent Il fof
whatever we wanted. After the war
we were poor We had to economise
and so we began first on the things we
did not need. The decanter was the
first TO CO."
The Rev. Mr.. Small will speak n
Wayne tonight, and In the Fort-st.
Presbyterian church, Detroit Wed
nesday evening.
Former Governor Patterson, OF Ten.
nessee, will speak in the Fortst
Presbyterian church tonight He wiz
reach Detroit at late hour this aft
srnoon.