South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-08
SAYS j. 6. WILL
BE DRY WITHIN
NEXTF|VE YEARS

United States will be a prohibition
nation inside of five years, according
to the predictions made by ex-Gov.
Malcolm r. Patterson of Tennessee
and DR.. a. c. Bane, national represent
alive Of the Anti-Saloon league, at a
big mass meeting at the high school
auditorium Sunday afternoon. Both
speakers were very optimistic in re-
gard to the fight that is being made
to secure national prohibition, be-
cause of the large advance that the
movement has made in the last few
months.
Mr.. Patterson is well known be-
cause of the fact that he was formerly
one of the most prominent Spokesman
for the liquor interests, his message
TO the Tennessee legislature while he
was governor of that state being wide
ly circulated as the most convincing
treaties on the wet side of the queS-
ton ever written.
He told in his address about his
change to the side of prohibition. His
decision is thought by many to have
been one of the deciding events in
the campaign that put Tennessee into
the dry column.
Sees Victory Ahead.
mo greater service he declared,
can be done to the United States and
humanity, than the complete annihiIa-
ton OF the liquor traffic. 1t is my
opinion that this will be accomplished
in a much shorter time than is hoped
by many advocates Of the prohibition
movement.
when 1 went to congress a few
years ago, liquor was openly served in
both wings of the national capitol.
The restaurants of the house and the
senate resembled very closely high
class saloons, and many of the men
who were sent to Washington to
formulate laws for the people were
more often seen hanging over the
bar than they were seen in the halls
of congress.
of a man had introduced a bill into
that congress to submit the prohibi-
ton proposition TO the states, he
would have been looked upon as
recationary, and would have been
laughed at by his associates.
The liquor question will never be
settled until the government takes it
by the throat and chokes it's life out,
and / believe that in the future con-
gressmen will be elected on the basis
of their stand on the question.
When the proposition is submitted
to the states as 1t will be in the very
near future, it is a certainty that it
will be ratified by them. The %
states that are already dry will be
aided by the necessary IA more.
People Will End Fight.
AT the present time there are SO
states that have less saloons than
there are in New York city, while Chi
cago has more of these than exist
south of the Mason and Dixon line.
The question will not be settled by
party or sectional action, but by the
mass of Americans waking up TO the
fact that liquor should be thrown out
of the country.
II do not believe in regulation,
license or local option, except as a
means of securing national prohibit
Jion. / would sooner attempt TO reg
ulate a Mexican revolution than L
would this traffic. Every time l see
a saloon 1 have a sneaking sympathy
for Carrie Nation, and her attempts
to regulate them
with the nations Of Europe at each
others threats, they nevertheless ag-
gree that the liquor traffic is bad. II
hope that the United States will not
be the last TO get rid OF it forever"
DR.. Bane, who proceeded Mr.. Pat
terson on the program, outlined the
work that is being done at present
by the league in all parts OF the coun-
try. He also made the statement that
the liquor traffic was doomed TO GER
tain and quick defeat, and urged his
audience TO do all that they could to
help out In the movement
Twenty-Five States Dry.
con the first of July. 1914" be said,
there were Il states in the Union in
which the sale Of liquor was pro-
hibited. During the later part Of
1914 five more were added, and since
the first OF January, eight have been
voted dry, making a total of p states.
The liquor interests have been TAX
ing advantage of the interstate COM
merce laws to flood these states with
their products, and will continue TO
do so until the entire nation is pro-
hiOition. These states will gladly give
their vote towards bringing -prohibi-
ton 70 the rest OF the states, and II
is our duty to help them by securing
a favorable vote in enough of the
wet states TO accomplish nationwide
prohibition"