The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-05-24
Prohibition's Scope Fast
Becoming Nationwide

ing, as they are vastly more gratis
flying
II may strengthen conviction In
this connection to take testim on VI
from one OF the oldest Of the South I
ern States, Virginia has beconel
very deeply interested in prohibited
In recent years. and has been par
ticularly watchfui OF the outcome fr(
North Carolina. As a result TO soHel
OF It's Inquiries the Salisbury IN, C..
Evening Post recently published thd
following: "A Salisbury hasiness1
man was asked To express an opiH !
ion on the results of prohibition. AMI
he thought Of the bank deposits . 4
a means OF rejecting the dlfferenceI
now and then. Upon investigation
he found that the bank deposits n
Salisbury show an increase of 50 PED
cent over the deposits under the last
days OF the open saloon When II
Ia remembered that this was \
VIII olesale center---a base Of supp.1
for whtskey-this eantrast is thrI
more noticeable. This Is only end
straw showing that the entlawing II
whiskey in North Carolina has not
ruined us"
Prohibition aud the BALLOT.
Analogy runs through the recardS
OF the prohibition and equal suffrage
movements Just az In the latte.
there were the Susan p. Anthonys
the Elizabeth Cady Stantons ihn
Kate Fields. the Beiva Lockwoods
the Mary A. Livermores and other
devoted and forceful figures To bear
the brunt of rldicule. abuse and mis-
representation-:o suffer discourage
ment and disappointmeni--the hu-
man pangs OF hope deferred--so IN
the former there. were the Neal Dows
tho John r Coughs. the John r. &:
Johns. the John r. Ftnches. the
Frances f. Wiilards~--ali the splen
did men and women associated will.
the Good Templars. the Sons 81
temperance and the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance union--to eea.
the scoffs and suffer the acorn ID
yeavs and decades unprepared as yeq
for the reception of the full TRUTH
about the curse OF liquor and thu
only logical means OF destroying IT
The temperance orators. and thes
we're many and eloquent. drew trr-
mendous audiences and enlisted pop
ular emotion at times. but Ii Is pa
thetic in the light Of later develop
ments to consider how little real In,
precision was made throughout tbs
United States as a whole by the no.
thod OF handling the liquor question:
during the greater part OF the nine-
teenth century. Cough. Hewlett and
other apostles of emancipation from
the domination Of alcohol directed
their eloQuence and wit rather .o1
ward emotion than taword reason
Earlier and Recent Methods.
Their crusade was In the abstracsI
rather than In the concrete. They}
held the million under the spell ID
oratory. but convinced and converted
only the comparative few. The re-
vivals of Moody and SAnkey, rein
forced the w, c. r. u, In the Chris
tianization of the cause. nut, without
intending to carry the analogy to-,
far--rather with the purpose al
pointing once more to the apparent
necessity OF shock at times a. an In
strument for the awakening Of hu-
man conscience--it remained for
Mrs. Carrie Nation, hammer In hand
to strike the first blows that have re
suited in welding together in a solid.
and compact mass the anti-liQuorI
sentiment OF the country. without
accepting or following the example,
OF the first of women militants u
modern times. that mass has press
ed forward steadily and silently and
irresistibly since the days OF mirroY.
smashing in Kansas.
Who that reads the news from
Washington in these times will doubt
that final victory for the once rldi-
culed. maligned and despised prohi
bition cause is now In sight?