The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-07

4 truet But fnere ~ this uinefences I'M
duty OF civil government is TO promots
the welfare Of the governed. Ever,
page sent out by those men makes
for a better citizenship, a ioftier pa.
triotism. Every page sent out undei
the frank OF MT. Underwood for tsit
drink trafficf.r aside an institution that
is subyersivs OF good government and
In every respect an enemy Of the Re-
public.
! An outburst OF Virtue.
/ Mr. Mann opened HIS address with
the following outburst of virtue: u
am for morality and against immoral
lily: i am for decency and against In
decency: am for temperance and
against drunkenness; / am for virtue
and against vice; l am for law and
order and against crime and disorder;
II am for the right and against the
wrong. He could have continued with
perfect propriety and truthfulness and
said. I am for saloons. breweries,
distilleries, and ali their accompani-
/ ment. and against granting to the
( people the right to so amend or
change the oganic law as to get rid
of them" This. by his speech and vote
is exactly what he did say. Mr.. Mann
broadly infers that there is In the
| excitement OF the agitation on this
question a reverson of the time when
religious prosecution proposed TO
! make a man profess a certain reli-
gion in order to save his soul and
If he would not save his soul in that
| way they would destroy his body
What a statesmanlike utterance! What
a benefactor Mr.. Mann Is In pointing
out TO us the threatening perils of
a lhoodthirsty church. and of tenn
| perance people when in a wave of ex-
element or course. 1t is the saloon,
the GROCERY and the brothei that are
free from bloody deeds and which
claim and receive the support of such
men as leaders Underwood and Mann.
Mr.. Mann concludes his speech by in
forming us that the prohibitioEists
so-ealied. are on the wrong track.
| The way to obtain the restriction of
the sale OF alcoholic beverages. ike
the way to enforce any other moral
propaganda. is through local authorf-
ties In reply, we wish to inform
Mr.. Mann. first, that the temperance
people have learned too mucn sense
from exeperience TO longer ccnfins
thir efforts to fighting a national evil
| through local authorities. ana see-
ond. that restriction OF the sale of
| aiColoiic beverages Ia NJ. our oh
| tectivoF--it is the complete annihi.a-
ton IL the beverage liouo- tr mis- ard
the re'e eating to private life as sped
| ~ as y. ssible all members % Con-
Efess ard the United Sta - Senate
WIN stand in the way of giving Ia the
States Their guaranteed rights for me
settlement Of this question Il Is rot
a pleasant task to single out public
oi.;iais End discredit :he.n ia n g
public mind; but when men called TO
high positions of honor and trust. as
Mr. Mann and Mr. Underwood have
been called by the people. step down
| from their lofty positions to become
the specific guardians and protectors
of the liquor interests against the
people, they forfeit all right to the
favorable consideration of decent,
self-respecting, home-loving public.
/ Mr.. Mann, the alleged author of the
law against the white slave traffic. and
Mr.. Mann, the sponsor for the liquor
Mr. HYDE of the United States Con-
| gress.
Mr.. Underwood's View
The eight hours of debate having
been concluded, the five minute rule
| for amendment followed. At this
point Mr.. Underwood, having used up
/ all the material that had been fur
nished him. seems to have retired from
tho conflict and was not much In EVIL
dence from that on. But Mr.. Mann
employed the Leadership conferred
upon him by his party In exhausting
parliamentary tactics In his effort 10
defeat the measure. Finding him
self outgeneraIed by the advocates of
the resolution. he finally resorted TO
the insincere, not to say interruptions,
tactics of trying to amend the reso-
luton by making 1t so drastic the
States would not ratify II. There was
] great fitness in the themA-Hsed BY
DIR. Boynton, who lives in Mr. ~Mann's
district. when he preached on the
following Sunday night upon The Fall
of Mann" and uttered that keen SEN
tence that ought to live. that mo pres
idential bee can live in alcohol" The
liquor interests are already trying to
reimburse Mr.. Mann for his activity
in their behalf by backing his candi-
dacy for the presidency. If the Re-
! publican party wants to insure Its de-
feat In the next presidential election
beforehand the surest way to do so
In to nominate Mr.. Mann or any other
/ friend and advocate OF the liquor traf f.
| fic.
A Miraculous Showing.
| The vote was finally taken at 1880
fact that it was the first time the aues-
ftfon had been presented TO either
branch OF Congress-: that no menr her
OF Congress had been elected upon
that issue; that both floor leaders
not only made speeches hut exhaust
ed parliamentary tacticts against Il ::
and that the great prestige OF the
President and Secretary Bryan was
invoked against II again and again by
speakers on the floor that day, the
fact that 1t received n clear majority
of eight, exclusive of pairs, must stand
as tremendous victory for the forces
of morality and right
/ Two or three incidents transpirsa
during the day that cannot In ius-
tice he overlooked. - The Woman's
Christian Temperance Union had
printed upon slips OF paper the names
of large number OF the 5000 600
petitioners favorable to this resoiu-
ton. and had pasted them upon a
| tough substance and stretched them
the full length of the balcony behind
! the speaker. and at either end the De-
titions huIf TO the floor In front of
the speakers stand. Mr.. Hohson had
placed upon casels large number
of scientific charts gotten out by the
Scientific Temperance Federation OF
Botson, and had so arranged them that
they could be easily read by the mem
bers of Congress. Congress was as.
sembling; perhaps one-third OF the
members were In their seats, when
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