The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-07-08
Anti-Saloon League Speaker
Points Out Modern Eff
cheney as Big Foe of
Strong Drink.
TEMPERANCE GAINS
EurOpean Countries Danish
IntOxicants From Army
Systems to Make Soldiers
Fit Fighting Machines.

ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., July s.
DR.. Louis Albert Banks of Delaware.
o., declared here today before the
convention of the Anti-Saloon League
that the difference between the pres
ent temperance movement and pre-
vious attacks on liquor lies in the fact
that the big business men st every
community are now dead set against
the liquor traffic. The modern cry of
deficiency" he said, is strictly in
compatible with the use of strong
drink.
He traced the worldwide movement
against alcohol of the last twelve
months as follows:
"At the beginning Of the war, LORD
Kitchener declared that whatever else
was sent to English soldiers there
would not be drop of strong drink.
II he could have organized the Eng
lish working people on the same basis,
ENGLAND would have been in an infln-
itely happier condition today, and we
would not have Lloyd George utter1ng
his desperate cry that England Is
fighting three enemies-Germany,
Austria and drink-and that drink Is
the worst Of the lot an which our
own Mr.. Bryan very shrewdly COM
ments that England has found out that
the aeroplane that drops bombs from
above and the submarine that shoots
torpedoes from beneath, bad as they
are not nearly so dangerous as
the schooners that slide across their
own English bars. 1t is the opinion
of the leading public men of England
that she must come shortly to absolute
prohibition, and in that she is only
following the example of other ma
tons.
BIunder Of France.
France has been breeding pecul-
iarly idiotic race of drunkards with
that strange drink of hers-absinthe-
for many years. Her medical and
scientific people have Numbered
against it. but nothing practical was
accomplished until they came up
against the wall Of the German army,
and had to have men with steady
nerves, who could see straight. and
shoot straight or the nation must die.
Then it only took a few hours for the
government to abolish that drink for
the war. Since then the French con.
gress has abolished it forever, and are
prohibiting all kinds of intoxicating
drinks for the rest of the war.
Some of you remember how only
few years ago it was the world sen
sation for many days when the Kaiser
went dry. He got scared about the
drunkenness of his officers in the
army, and became a teetotaler even
from beer. He preached total absti-
nence from one end of Germany to
the other. When the war broke out
they soon locked up all their distiller-
les and cut down their breweries to
half strength in their beer. Since
then one thing after another has been
eliminated until that half strength
beer is all there is left.
Russia in Lead.
But Russia leads the procession
Never since that other Car go years
ago, set 100000 of serfs free with
one ukase, has there been anything
to compare with the wor kof the pres.
ent Car in the redemption of Russia
from strong drink. When the Car
closed every saloon in the empire at
the beginning of the mobilization of
troops, it was thought by himself and
by everybody else to be only tenn
porary expedient. But a wonderful
thing happened. The closing order
was made permanent