The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-30

later conviction Of the evil doors. Al
though his life has been frequently
threatened and a price set on his head.
the Fighting ParsOn" has no intention
of relaxing his energies as long as vice
continues to exist. He depends largely
upon publicity, for he believes that Ito
turn the light into a rat hole destroys
it for rat purposes" Mr.. Williams said
in part:
For more than five years I have
been in a hand to hand battle with
the saloon and all its attendant
iniquities on the lower North side of
the city Of Chicago. The district rep
resents every extreme of wealth and
poverty knowledge and ignorance
imaginable. The mfllionaire's palace on
Lake Shore Drive fronts the lake; the
hut Of the wharf rat, a wooden shack
built after the Chicago fire, looks out
upon the river. Eleven thousand sin
gle men live in roOming houses in this
community, with no anchor but a latch
key. Several thousand young women
also room here, who have come up to
the city to battle for bread
I'm this district are more than 300
saloons, and at the beginning Of the
battle there were scores of houses OF
ill-fame. gambling dens, cockpits, coke
joints and other places Of pernicious
and destructive influence.
Lessons to Be Learned.
"A few of the lessons I have learned
age of those engaged in the liquor traf-
fic have been greatly overestimated.
They are experts at the game Of bluff.
I have had saIoonkeepers come to my
home and beg me to let up on them,
declaring that I was running their bus
mess. They have also come to request
me to intercede for the restoration of
their license, when through my efforts
it had been revoked The brewers have
come promising good behavior and Of
fering a bride if would secure restora-
ton of license where they were on a
lease holding them for a heavy rental.
Other saloonkeepers have hired cheap
thugs to come and beat me up, but
failed of their purpose because one Of
the men from whom they solicited
funds to help pay the thugs threatened
to squeal if they killed me.
Another valuable lesson that have
learned is that the liquor traffic and its
attendant evils cannot stand the day
light. Jacob Riis has said: If you want
reforms, tell the people, While Bishop
Fowler put it tersely when he said:
If you reflect a ray Of light into a rat
hole, you destroy it for rat purposes !"
Addresses this afternoon included:
keynote of the Session." by Daniel
A. Polling, national vice president, who
presided; George H. Hodges, governor
of Kansas; the Rev. Elmer L. Williams
of Chicago, and DR.. Chas. M. Sheldon
of Topeka.
The problem Of the intercollegiate
Prohibition association Is to create and
apply the fighting spirit until it hits
hard the institutions that encourage
vice among men according to Harry 8.
Warner, general secretary of the or
ganizati ton who was leader of q confer
ence for all delegates at the auditor
ium between eleven and twelve o'clock
this morning. There is no field In
America" said Mr.. Warner, ''for which
the fight instinct may be better utilized
than the conflict with the liquor traf-
fic. The purpose of our movement is
to know the facts"
Raise the Standard.
Harry G. Mccain, extension secre-
tary, Methodist Episcopal society, said
that just as football has been elevated
in the colleges from what was consid-
cred a brutal game to clean sport.
the college students may raise the pro-
hibition movement from tho fanatic to
the heroic. 1.-The ultimate aim of the
intercollegiate Prohibition association
| is to help solve the liquor problem,
said Mr.. Mccain. but the immediate
aim is to train the college men and
women for service in the prohibition
movement"
| A general conference on STUDY o.
the Liquor Problem in Colleges" wa.
conducted by DIR. D. Leigh Colvin Of
New York. president OF the associa
ton. Among the speakers were MARI
r. Shaw of the Ohio Wesleyan uni
versity; ]. s. Tome of Pennsylvania
college; E. H. Gustafson of the Uni
versity of North Dakota: Herman F
Johnson, University Of Minnesota, and
Earl H. Haydock, University of South
ern California.
Platform talks were given between
9 and 10 O'Clock.
The Kansas delegates at the con
vention will meet for a dinner and so
| cial good time at the Central Congre
gational church at $50 o'clock thi
evening.
/ The Missouri delegation will hold
| social mixer" and dinner at the Cen
trail Y. M. c. A. at $3.50 o'clock. Elol
G. Burton, field secretary, will be on
Of the speakers.
A feature of the meeting Tuesda,
night was the solo work of Howar,
Searle Of Topeka
Officers of Association.
The following is list Of the ma
tional officers OF the Intercollegiat
| Prohibition association: d. Leigh Col