The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-15
GEORGIA CYCLONE
fATAUSES AUDIENCE
Mrs Armor Makes Great Address At
Broad Street Church To Repre-
sentative Gathering,
EFFORT GEM or ELooUE>cE
Those who Would Make Money Out
of Drink Traffic Come In for
Scorcning ExccIiatlon---t5ces to
Danville Tonight

The auditorium at Broad-Strae.
Methodist Church last evening would
not have proven overly congenial or
comforts Die quarters for partisans Of
the ieaaliEed liquor traffic ard
especia iiv these " no make MONEY out
Of l.. For the Georgia Cyclone
swept down upon ne arch ensn1y Of
our best institution and played havoc
with It. Mrs Mary Harris ArnlCr,
the widely famed "evanReI Of the new
crusade fully sustained her great
reputation as IN eloquent. foTceful,
logical speaker Of wonderful mag
netic power She held tne represent
alive Richmond audience spall-boRnd
from her first sentence 10 the climax
of address thai fairly br.stied with
startling facts. convincing logic,
scathing satire. genuine e.o4uence,
good huunot ard classic 1aot lions
To say trar Mrs Arnor la eloquent
does nor eonver1 an adequate con-
Ter Complete MASTER. ot her subject IS
always IN evidence. And wheE NE say
that her Richmond auditors last ever
ing we're thrilled by her masterfal
treatment Of her timely t1engs. IA
tsonal Constitutional Prohibition, il
is putting II mildly Certainly not
one of those present last night could
shen consider the temperance ques-
ton as trite or It's discussion az all
r1onotinous. for there was not au in
thrilling moment ii tha entire ad-
dress Of the celebrated speaker
Mrs Ar!nor's address was delivered
under the auspices 81 the National
W c. r L. Of which she is an officer.
She was accompanied to Richmond by
Mrs. Howard NJ HoBo, state president
of the w. C. T. L. and these dis
tlnguished White Ribbon visiting
champions we're mat al the BYrd-
Street Station By Mrs. Bickers, the
city president. Who had q carriage
to their suite Of rooms n MuTp1ys
Hotel Upon entering their apart
ment the visitors were confronted
with a large ard handsome bouquet
iof choicest flowers, attached to which
we're long strea ners Of white satin rib
hon
Mrs. Hoge Presents Speaker.
Rev Fred 9. CAerau.t conducted
the devotional exercises OF TIE meet
Hogs, the state president who, in
turn. gra cet4lly incrod Qced ths speak
er Of the evening Nj Chen4ult s
--eloonla u.as very cordial and Mrs
H0ge prefaced her Introduction Of
the speaker 71fE 2 brief Sta -erc ent
- the " & Z. Z C.onfe4enc IN
yrs seinetor and the enenurs E1rg
status Of the we-k Fre4actnE her ad-
dress with = neat expression Of pleas-
ant memories of former visit hare
and z graceful tribute 70 tie io62l
white Ptbbone-z To Pt~hmord, the
sFecco OF the Southland Sin which
VAS. disclosed her Southern nativity
ana love - DiNie) and 70 rf1s grand
cI7 mooher state FOR - g1orously re-
deeming herself from the incubus OF
the liquor traffic. which had caused
her 70 shout glory. Ea}ielaia h---N-ir-
ein3a is fraa" when she heard The
slad news Mrs Arn1er launched
INTO ar earnest discussion Of hsr SUBJ
7ect. Very ahlv cid she maintain the
POSITION that tire i.censl1e Of tire
liquor traffic Vas contrary 10 the
genius ~ American institutions and
indefensibIe upon anv Just legal So
cial. moral economic patriotic or
scientific grounds STATE after state
has caught the music IT the stately
S.euptngs towards rational p~1hibi-
tion and soon 3 stainless flag VIII
floa- over the srandes' % lands freed
forever from 1he foul blot OF 4 sane.
. Toned curse Path tae risnt and
the duty 70 enact = national corsti-
press our thanks 70 the many donors
% tAe very lihhral gifts which corsti-
tutad thts amount
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