The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-03-16
DRASTIC PROVISIONS OF
YOST LAW ARE EXPLAINED
REMARKABLE MASS MEETING HELD MARKET AUDITORIUM
SUNDAY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BY
TAX COMMISSIONER BLUE
Audience Was Very Cosmopolitan Saloon Druggists Ministers and
Citizens in General Being Present-Many New
Phases of Law Brought Out

Anxious TO hear the man to whom
all eyes will be turned s.fter June 90
next. in this state. and to have ex-
plained. the intricacies OF the Yost
Prohibition law. fully 1900 persons
gathered AT the Market Auditorium,
Sunday afternoon. and head Tax Com
missioner Fred q. Blue, define thu
various sections of the Amendment.
Lhe meeting was one OF the most en-
thuslasuc ever held by the temper
ance people OF the state. and many
times during the talk. the speaker
was interrupted by applause.
The meeting was attended by men,
pers OF the various churches of the
city. including ministers. in addition
TO others, many OF whom are now in
terested in the liquor and drug bust
ness. All were anxious to learn tho
law from one who has studied It
thoroughly
Seated on the platform with Tax
commissioner Fred O. Blue were the
| following local persons: Chairman
George A. Laughlin, NJ. +. Giesey. Rev
w. :. Dysinger. of the First English
Lutheran church. Rev w. r. Schultz
OF Zane Street NJ. r. church, Geo. w.
Srabbe, president of West Virginia
Law enforcement league. Rev. r. +.
Brinninstool Of First Baptist church.
Rev. J. II. Hess OF North Street NJ. n
church. Rev. j. n. Littell. ID. d., OF
second Y. Il. church, Rev. Arden w.
Miller OF Emmanuel Baptist church,
Rev. ID. =. Reed OF Triadelphia NJ r.
Lutheran church. Rev. w. c. Hart.
niger OF Thomson NJ. +. church and
Rev. +. w. Day OF Warwood Presby-
terian church.
The meeting was opened with the
singing of Hymn No. 1873 I'm the Lit
tie Red Book" stand up for Jesns"
led by M. +. Giesey of this city. This
was followed by the singing of "On-
ward Christian Soldiers" after which
the invocation was offered by Rev.
William Z. Schultz of Zane street
F, church.
Following the invocation Hon.
George A. Laughlin. chairman OF the
meeting, introduced President Geo.
W. Crabbe OF the State Law Enforce
ment League, who spoke OF the work
Deing done TO aid in the enforcement
OF the prohibition law. He called at
tenuon 10 the overwhelming majority
| given the amendment by the citizens
OF West Virginia at the last election,
and added that those who voted fo-
| the passage of the law would be its
defenders after IL becomes effective
and VIII aid materially in It's enforce
ment.
Stringent Law.
1 WANT 10 say, tnat you nave the
most stringent prohibition law that
can be found on any statute book In
the republic" he said. We are go
ing to have men in West Virginia who
are bound TO violate the laws despite
the officers. We need an organized
enort TO see TO having the law en-
forced. and we need men of the same
cahbre as Fred o. Blue to do tho
| work.
THE Law Enforcement League will
| open an office in this city April 4
and man will be stationed there
who has had five years experience in
hghting-in doing nothing else but
prosecuting bootleggers. He is there
10 help you, and he will do it, We
will try TO enlist every man and wo.
man In this State in the fight"
Cards were passed to the audience
asking for pledges OF any amount to
aid In the work OF the Law Enforce.
ment League in support of the State
ofncers In the Eight. and to pay ex-
throughout the State.
Hon. George A. Laughlin then in
| few brief remarks introduced Hon.
/ Fred o. Blue as the principal speaker
| OF the day. As Mr.. Blue stepped to
the front OF the platform he was
greeted with much applause. In open
ing. he said:
Mr.. Blue Speaks.
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
] men-lt Is pleasure for me TO come
1 TO Wheeling. II is always a pleasure
for me to come here My memory
runs back to the first time I came
! here. II seems but yesterday-but Il
was 35 years ago. during the Christ
mas holidays. ] was with my uncle.
He bought a watch for me, one OF
the old kind. one that IL was necessa-
! ry to wind in the back with a sepa-
rate key. There was never one like
that In all the world.
Wheeling hospitality Is so great
that ] have threatened a friend here
TO come and stay n week soon.
will some day. ! know Il. like this
place.
i am going to speak to you on a