Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-08
aJNDAY'C SINCERITY
BEDROCK, DECLARES
FORMER GOVERNOR
Analyses Progress and Need
If Statewide Prohibition.
Sixteen Commonwealths
Now Dry"
Nv ROBERT B. GLENN
rr.covernor Of North Carolina

~.
-,nresentative Of the EVENING
called on me yesterday and re-
.a that I write an article giving
.,,ovs on two subjects, both Of which
.ow before the public eye and espe-
I'M before tho people of Philadelphia
~, erat inquiry was to ascertain my
- the character Of the Rev. William
r.aov and the estimate in which 1
hold his work.
..vo known Mr.. Sunday, or, as he Is
-n,.r,v called "Billy" Sunday, for
vsars. I have seen him on the
.r..,+.,l field, alert, active and full Of pur-
~. 10 win the game for his team. 1
ss-. bsard him in the pulpit, preaching
=. .,,,nia gospel of the Bible with force
tas thr,ilinr persuasion, and l have
~ .d to his lectures blstering evildoers
nv dano,incinE the sin and ruin OF
s.sorg drink and whenever l have seen
y heard him l have been impressed with
~. sarnestness, his sincerity, his zeal
and his simplicity.
perhaps no man has ever hVed IN our
"a and certainly none lives at the
".
~. to drive out evil, to promote good and
- make men and women live better and
h,llar lives than has BILLY" He Is
hIrIyvind I'm denunciation, cyclone in
,r,lIinR and tearing down sin and corrup-
dan and at the same time q consolation
aud aid to all who are seeking to lead
hstter lives and to find the peace which
the world cannot give
philadelphia should rejoice to have the
baneat Of his strong and powerful SER
mons standing as they do for right
sorsness. God alone can estimate the
rood his meetings are doing, for the peo-
pie Of Philadelphia.
Answering the second inquiry as to
what I think OF Statewide prohibition,
II assert without fear of truthful contra
dction that 1t is the greatest blessing
that can come to a people, for II drives
away evil promotes law and order and
makes strong men and women out of rep
robates and weaklings.
To know that what say is true only
consider that the use of strong drink
causes 20 per cent. of all insanity, 40 per
cent OF idiots 60 per cent. of cruelty and
atrocity, 70 per cent. of "hoboism," rs
per cent. of crime and so per cent. of pow
erty. Sixty per cent. of fallen woman
and so per cent. of degraded men come to
their downfall through strong drink. Last
year 100000 men and women died di-
rectly or indirectly from its use.
Compare the States that have adopted
prohibition with what they were before it's
adoption and at once you see the benefit
that comes from the elimination of liquor
Money, once wasted, Is now used for USE
full purposes. Crime is lessened, poverty
greatly reduced and happiness and peace
take the place of discord and ruin.
No great moral movement ever goes
backward and in my judgment in less than
II years there will be no strong drink
allowed to be manufactured or sold in the
United States-we, as a nation, like Rus
sla, will drive It out.
On January 1, 1915, there were II States
that had voted dry. Alabama voted dry
IN January and 1 noticed in the EVENING
LEDGER Of Thursday that Arkansas had
also voted dry South Carolina. Florida.
Kentucky, Ohio. Utah and Arizona will
vote this year and by January l, 1916,
there will be at least 21 dry States.
Inc temperance movement is growing
stronger every day. Even the politician
Is finding that the saloon is no longer
an-powerful and no party now dares to
ue itself openly to the rumseller.
The talk Of confiscating property and
asking that the whisky seller be indemni-
80 - q Soully OF state goes dry Is all
TOT as an argument to stem the demand
TOT dry territory. The whisky dealer can
use his property for other and better pur-
poses
The Supreme Court of the United
states has decided that as the whisky
ceaer erected his business on a license,
nowing that it could be revoked, he
cannot cry "confscation" If the people
see best to abolish his business
BESIDES this, the rumseller has taken
tne .l wages that should have gone to suf-
,psllng p"g wives and children. He has
Dnsnted business and careers and de-
s.uoyed and ruined health, honor and all
mat .nn life loves best. The last people TO
ssH ABOUT conflscation should be those
sssponsiole for this misery.
Fronibition is coming. Society. busI-
ness health, education and morality de-
mand II; The people are awake. the
command is onward and forward" and
- .h.n Iew years this demon OF desolation
shan and must go.