The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-18

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accomplishment of this high purpose
we dedicate ourselves. and invite all
who are with us agreed to enroll in
this army by signing this pledge of
service
The first meeting yesterday was at
1850 o'clock and the second began at
.:30. The afternoon session was
more largely attended than that at
night, though interest manifested and
applause given the speakers was
probably more marked at the night
meeting.
| In the afternoon Rev. Lloyd r. Will
son presided. introducing the speak
lers The night meeting was presided
lover by William NJ. Bickers, For the
meetings today, when the speakers
! will be DR.. Carolyn Geisel. of the Bat
tile Creek Sanitarium: DIR. Wilbur r.
Sheridan, general secretary of the
Epworth League. and DR. Ira Ian
drith. president of the Ward-Befmont
college, Nashville, those presiding
will be: Afternoon---Mrs. G. NJ. Job
son. and night. Mrs. w, NJ. Bickers.
The speakers at the $50 meeting will
+ be presented by Or. Margaret kuyk.
and at the night meeting by Rev. DIR.
u a. Smoot. The soloiat for today's
meetings Is Frederick Butler. and Mrs.
Butler will be his accompanist
| Candidates Must Take Stand.
! In his address Yesterday afternoon
and last night Mr.. Polling emphasized
the. declaration that the time has come
will
a candidate ~ Congress who has not
/ first put himself on record as being
leither for or against national prohi-
ihition.
Three years ago." he said when
we began to- say there would be
saloonless nation by 1890 many
laughed at us; now there are millions
the work that is being done in the
campaign for nation entirely free
of the iiquor traffic In 1920 by tho
, Flying Squadron and by other organ
nations working for national prohi-
bition. and he warned that 'all
petty differences must be forgotten
ana all the prohibition forces brought
solidly together II we are to ac-
Icomplish this.''
The saloon mas but three finished
products-wrecked and diseased
bodies. wrecked and diseased minds
and damned souls" he declared. and
as he drove his message to the minds
1 of his hearers he declared that s3S.000
were paid for liquor by people for
every thousand dollars that the liquor
traffsc pays in revenue. He called the
liquor .raffis the chief economic i'm
lpoverisher. a nonrevenue producer.
and business parasite and he pro-
| duced facts and figures that could not
he denied
Must Deal With Causes.
He Touched upon the subject Of
child labor and declared that he had
been one Of those who had worked TO
abolish Il, to better conditions and
related a number OF incidents which
had proved to him that those con-
corning themselves with the child.
and not with the cause In the liquor
traffic he found the cause.
The fact that father has lost his
LOB through his appetite for drink
does not mean that the child has lost
Its appetite for food he declared
after he had asserted that the neces-
sity OF getting food for the stomach
land clothing for the body compels the
child to labor.
II have determined" he continued.
Ito have nothing to do with move
ito recognize causes"
Mr.. Polling also talked on the sub
ject OF the high cost OF living, and
declared the abolishrienf Of the liquor
traffic will omen the way to Z solution
of this grave question. too. He de-
clared for the adoption OF better edu-
tcational methods In carrying on the
snti-liduor traffic propaganda. Per.
sonai references 70 the utterances Of
Connie Mack. Buffalo Riil and John L.
Sullivan on the subject of alcohol
were made He declared such men
are types that must be used in the
Educating OF the boys. admirers OF
heroes such as they see these men to
be.
Barleycorn Licked John l..
I'm my grip at the hotel" said Mr.
l.. Sullivan on which Sullivan has
written: Tim Corbett did not lick me:
III was John Barleycorn who knocked
me out"
THE united army OF temperance
commands, Our laws shall declare
prohibition and our political admins
trations shall be held accountable for
continued. Worthy government Is
not by law alone, for government hy
law Is anarchy: worthy government
Is not by administration alone, for
COVER nment by administration Is tyr
amy. Government is by law and ad-
ministration.
I'VE stand IN the morning Of "A
great political judgment day-a day
when men shall be made: day when
men shall be unwade; a cay when
political parties shall De weighed In
the balance OF Quickened political
conscience and when those found I'M
worthy shall he abandoned. Today
he finger Of human welfare is writ