Evening star., 1915-12-13
Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, Pro-
hibition Advocate, Addresses
w. C. T. U. Mass Meeting.
ABOLITION OF SALOON
IN DISTRICT ALSO URGED
Leaders of Temperance Movement
Take Part in Big Demonstration
at Polls Theater.

| Prohibition for the District of Co
lumbia and the submission of a ma
tional constitutional prohibition amend
ment to the voters of the country for
ratification are two big moves the w
C. T. U. of the nation expects of the
present Congress. Mrs. Mary Harris
| Armor of Georgia said in an address at
the mass meeting of the organization
at Polls Theater yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Armor is known in many parts of
the country as the Georgia cyclone,
and is national organizer and lecturer
of the W. C. T. U.
AS to national preparedness, she de-
clared that the greatest enemy of
America today is an inside one and
not from across the seas. moment
later she declared John Barleycorn is
his name"
That President Wilson is for national
prohibition, she concluded, as she read
excerpts from his recent address to
Congress. II think he had the cues.
| tion of the liquor traffic in the back OF
his head at the time he wrote those
lines" she declared.
DO us Justice" she said, was the
declaration of representatives OF the
liquor traffic during the recent cam
paign in Ohio in reference to her meet
did," she added.
"Dry Republic" the Aim.
Today the temperance forces of the
country, united as never before. Mrs.
Armor continued. are writing their de-
mands for a dry republic. SO that
those of the liquor traffic who run
may read, and those who read may
rum"
Pointing out that certain leaders Of
the country have declared that prohi-
placed on the statute books, the speak
er asked: DO you wonder that anar-
chists are abroad throughout the ma
ton. holding their meetings in many
centers?'
A great drive. of the prohibition
forces of the country for national
constitutional prohibition amendment.
Mrs. Armor declared. is necessary II
"a traffic which has drenched this ma
tion in hate and tears is to 60. For
a moment she recalled that although
2.200 amendments to the Constitution
nave been proposed only seventeen
have been adopted.
Miss Anna Adams Gordon. president
of the National w. C. T. T., presided at
the meeting. She was presented by
Senator Thomas Sterling of South Da :
kota. Miss Gordon declared she could
see 'the horizon line of joy" telling that
labored for years is now in sight.
Leaders of W. c. T. q. Present
Seated along the first several rows of
the stage were many leaders of the
w. c. T. U. In the rear rows were
seated sixty members of the Epworth
League choir of Trinity Methodist Epis-
| copal Church. under the direction of
Levi N. Fouts, which, during the pro-
gram, sang Handefs "Hal1elulia' and
praise the Lord from Beethoven.
Dr. Mary Stone, who is head physician
of the Danforth Memorial Hospital of
Kiukiang, China, in addition to direct
ing the work of the W. c. T. L. N the
Flowery kingdom, also made brief ad-
dress, in which she told of the work
for temperance going on in China. Miss
Mary Anderson of Massachusetts,, who
formerly lived in Russia. also told of
work and conditions in that country.
Onward Christian Soldiers" was the
first hymn sung at the meeting which
be gan at o'clock. At that hour the
capacity of the theater was taxed. Mrs.
Emma Sanford Shelton, who besides
heading the District w. c. T. T., is
associate national legislative repre-
sentative of the organization. gave the
scripture reading, while the invocation
was by Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, ma
| tional legislative representative.