The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26

1 AsS SAHo-DdtOOH l<cdku6 VI SaDSthe"
carried on series of between three
and four hundred public meetings in
the state OF Massachusetts including
the week ending September 81, in the
interest OF the national constitutional
prohibition hill now pending in Wash
ington. The officers of the National
League and of the Massa C husetts
state League met with great success
IN their plans. Prominent, league
workers from North, ssoutb Eas, and
west occupied the important nulnits
Oh the Stale during the week. ALI
IcohVerging 20 Boston for a grand Of, :
max The Southerners with tbe,r
ierVio eloquence and Reports of rJo.
rious victories kindied a perfect fame
Iof enthusiasm. Great meetings were
heid on Saturday on Boston Common
anu on sunday. Among the other
tna .ah. orators was Congressman
Hobson, who spoke at fremont Tern
pie in the afternoon. Similar state
wide campaigns are to be prosecuted
one In Illinois to begin October -
one of the important Sunday SER
vices was held at the First Baptist
Church of Brookline. Rev. DR.. o. p
Clifford, pastor; with the st. Marks
Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. DR..
Willis r. Odell, pastor. and the First
Presbyterian Church, Rev. DR. Will
liam Wallace life. pastor. uniting In
the service. The address was deliy-
cred by Rev. DIR. Ferdinand c. Ingle-
hart, New York City Superintendent
of the Anti-Saloon League, and was
as follows:
How appropriate for the Anti Sa-
loon League army 40 come 10 Massa-
Ichusetts, cradle and home of liberty.
with its Plymouth Rock and Bunker
Hill. the heritage of the nation, and
with its giant leaders against slavery
10 ask you TO help us deliver the ma
ton from a slavery more intolera BILE
and diabolical than any that ever
bound the hands and ankles of men
with letters of steel,
The Anti-Saloon League. an inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL and nonpartisan
movement. was organized twenty one
years ago by Rev. DR. Howard II. Rus
sell, Congregational minister. him
self the son of an Episcopal rector
OF Springfield. your State. When n
boy, his fathers able and beloved
brother went out from Springfield one
cold winters day and his body was
brought back by the horses in The
bottom of the wagon, having beer
frozen to death on drunken spree.
The young Russell, looking upon the
face of his dead uncle, made "A VOW
that If God should spare his life he
would spend 1t fighting the liquor
traffic. | had the privilege of speak
ing with that man on Boston Com
mon yesterday afternoon and heard
nlnf' declare his belief that the liquor
traffic would be dead within ten years
and called upon the State and nation
TO shorten the time TO five years. AS
Nemesis he began the pursuit of the
liquor traffic when he looked into
the dead face of his uncle and there
is every prospect that he will con-
tinue that pursuit until Its death.
The Anti-Saloon League Is organ
ICED in every State in the Union and
the District of Columbia. There Is
never a session OF any State Legisla
ture' where you will not find paid
league men to watch and defeat liquor
bills and advance temperance legisla-
ton. There are $4,000 pulpits open
to representatives of this organization
every year, and the churches of the
various denominations contribute ST.
ESQ, 600 each year 10 its support. Two
thirds IF ALI the geographical area
Of the country is dry. Over one-half
of all the population of the country
lives in territory where YOU cannot
buy a gill of liquor as a beverage by
law We do not claim that the Anti
Saloon League has done all this work.
The third party prohibitionists
aroused the sentiment that made our
league possible. and the dear women
of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union prayed the Anti-Saloon
League into existence. and other tenn
perance organizations have done their
work faithfully and well, and are be-
hind US in our national constitutional
prohibition bill at Washington.
Prohibition prohibits so much that
no saloonkeeper favors ii. and less
than two gallons per pita OF intoxi
cants are used in Kansas. while TWEEN
ty-two gallons per capita Is the aver
age consumption of the country, Why
did the committee of the House on
war tax omit whiskey and hunt for
automobiles and telephone and teie-
graph calls and other things neces-
sary to reputable citizens, and lay
not a penny on whiskey. The reason
given was that the whiskey men would
mot pay 1t. If so, what a pitiable sub
lection to this criminal political ty-
lranny. We suspect that the whiskey
could not pay the extra tax so near to
the ragged edge of bankruptcy Is 1t.
The bonded warehouses are bursting
with the distilled spirits the liquor
men claim as having been consumed.
and an additional five cents gal
Ion would very likely bankrupt the
whole business and reduce Uncle
Sans income hereafter from that
source. The manufacturers OF IL
auors are bold and defiant, but they
know how no-license Is hurting them
and are afraid it will destroy them.
Last year the league passed Its
interstate commerce amendment bill
by a two-thirds majority over Presi-
dent Taft's veto. The law forbids the
Illicit transfer Of rum from wet into
dry territory. and the liquor maya
zines declare that bill means the de-
struction Of one-third of all the brew
cries. distilleries and saloons at one
stroke. We passed the Jones-Works
bill, destroying one-half of the sa-
looms of Washington city. Under the
present administration all the saloons