The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-12
DAN MORGAN SMITH
MAKES CONVENTION hit
CUNNING FOR THE BREWER
Says the Saloon Man Is Only the Goat
and He Isn't Loaded for Goats.
Every Drink a Drink Too Much.


Every Drink n Drink Too Much.
BY MAJOR DAN MORGAN SMITH
OF the Chicago bar, Former Genera
I Counsel, National Model Licenss
League Zone of the Three Largcs
National Liquor Associations In u
| So. Now Speaker for the Anft-Sa
/ loon League Of America.
Atlantic City, ". j., July l1.--On
of the hits of the great Anti-Salool
Convention was a speech by MaJo
Dan Morgan Smith. delivered Thurs
day morning. 1t follows in full:
If the results OF drinking were pure.
lly personal then the complaint oi
the vets that the anti-iiquor forces
are trying to interfere with the per
sonal liberty of drinkers. might carry
with II some force. tut drink it solo
on the installment plan, first pay
ment is made when you get the drink
the others when the drink gets you.
! The greater part of the payments
are made by those who do not drink
! The price of drink from a dime
to damnation-the drinker pays the
dime and humanity pays the damna'
ton.
1 The Immediate payment lie made IN
cash, some of the delayed payments
are made by the drinker In brawr
and brains ambition and efficiencv
morality and decency, duty and hon
or. hut you and /. although we never
touch liquor, must pay the price OF
a drink In loss of trade, in loss OF
profits, in damage suits, in one way
or another. depending upon our bus
liness, profession. or occupation, but
no one Is exempt.
j The merchant pays In loss of trade
for the moderate drinker of today II
the drunkard Of tomorrow, and
drunkards do not buy literally oil
groceries. clothing. shoes or OF any
thing else. except liquor.
i IL we be manufacturers we helI
pay the price of drink when oul
machinery Hes Idle because the opera
tor is SOLDERING up; help pay the prize
then fewer workmen report Moudas
than were working the preceding Sat.
iurday; pay in sluggish brains ant
trembling limbs: in damage suit
caused by careiessness or inefficieney
or drunken workmen pay in lessene'
output than the payroll justifies hin
in expecting.
! True, employers of labor are seek
ing to avoid this great drain upor
their profits by discharging the drink
ers, but A man permanently out o
work becomes a charge upon thu
taxpayers and the manufacturer 4
"a taxpayer Suppianting trainet
workment for unframed men is ex
,, lpensive. and yet It Is less expensive
than TO put up with the drfnker,
The Union men are paying install
ment upon the price of drink. 70
: ultimately wages and hours of la
bor must he based upon the earninl
car scity of the workmen, and tn
earning capacity depends Aos,iutel
upon Willingness. health and ability
upon efficiency. and science leaves NJ
: doub; that even one drink lessen
efficiency.
Even 'sDrysr' Help Pay Bill.
Farmers pay their :nstallment!
even though no person On the farr
w@-e t. drink for the farmer pay
l 70. the drink Of the miller VII, grind
> ihts wheat and of the clerk who sci.
! 1.-The four, of the middieman and WI
y stands between the maker and tn
!, consumer. The farmer also pays be
; cause of the lessened demand TO
. the products OF his farm, but pay
most OF all in taxes expended to Sur
port the cities poor and criminals
the victims OF drink.
} Professional men help pay, becaus
? the nIunhaTu phEs ho pAoAcSSi'i'e
fees.
, Every taxpayer is assessed to pa
, THE price of drink. and let US no
/ forget that every renter. every buye
!, OF anything Is taxpayer.
!. The taxpayers money Is used
. pay the judges and jurieS that ar
J trying with so little success to STD
.. the tide of crime that Is unquesfion
lably attributable. in the main, to tn
use pf drink. The taxpayer sup
ports the penitantiary that Is large
liy populated with men who violat
1.-The laws either when drinking ~ af
tier arinx had made them moral lep
ers.
Men who should know. assert tina
seyenty-ffve percent of crimes can b
directly traced to drink that thirty
three per cent of the inmates of asy
lumes are there because they. OF
their ancestors were poisoned b.
drink Social workers assert that
large number of women walk tn
street because the use of liquor ha
iessened their resistive powers, blunt
ed their moral senses. or excited thei
sexual desires.
Are these per centages true? D
these statisticians know what they ar
talking about?
/ do not know. but IL there be an,
pentitentiary, one person who Is Their
because the government permits tn
sale of liquor; II In some asylum
there Is one person who Is spendinl
IAN Of life muttering foolish nothings
lif In all the world there Is one girl
lust one little girI--who has kissed
her mother goodbye and can nevel
come home again, because of drink
then ! am In favor of National Con
lstitutional Prohibition.
This Would BE Some Dry.
| If these things be true. and I be
lieve them 10 be true, ] want to Sc
this country so dry that a rattl
snakes bite won't dig up drinl
/ between oceans.
No small part of the prize Of {
dring is paid by the drinkers fam
lily his wife pays In lost happiness
deprevation shame and tears-hi
children pay in lack of opportunity
In lessened advantages. and. wors
of all, In physical infrmities, menta
deficiencies, and moral degeneracy
Many children come into the worl'
doomed TO have stunted bodies
warped minds, and blunted mora
senses because ehey were sired by
drunken father.
I Citizens pay their instruments y
waves OF crime. lowered standards
of conduct. the unwarranted, PERM
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