The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-10

GREAT CONVENTION
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on to take similar action In regard
to the Philippines and Alaska
Along with its approval OF the Pres
idents Texas prohibition letter the
league calls on him to remove mem
bers of the excise board of the Dis
trict of Columbia who have. caused
the notification of Jones Work
Liquor Law. He is asked also to mod
ify the civil service ruling. which
has been invoked TO restrain Fed
eral employees from taking any in
terest In local option State liquor
elections. Other strong demands are
that the use of the mails be refused
papers carrying liquor advertising
and that applicants for Federal
licenses be required TO state in their
applications that liquor may be legal
ly sold in the locality where license
is to be used Coupled with this is the
provision that Federal officers be or
dered to cooperate with local or
ficials in dry territory.
Not a Political Riding Horse.
The league, says the report, Will not
| be used to further the ambitions or
any political leaders. but will continue
| Its work without regard to the am
bftions of friends or foes save the
cause of temperance Ia concerned.
Congressman Decker. of Missouri,
| in the course of stirring address
this afternoon in the midst OF
| glowing eulogy of President Wilson.
denied alphabetically that the Presi-
| dents influence In the last Congress
| had been used against the prohipiton
amendment. Mr.. Decker is a strong
administration man. 1t Is probable
| that he spoke for the President In
reply TO Congressman Hobson yester-
day, when the latter declared all the
Wilson influence was hurled against
ME amendment.
| Mr. Deckers declaration Ia In line
both with the Presidents position ana
the leagues policy as announced to-
day Mr. Decker quoted the following
statement printed In the program of
the conventions: The Anti-Saloon
League forces are working not merely
for a law to create a CONDITION, out
| rather for q condition which will sup
port a law" Mr.. Decker approved
thts sentence. 81 believe in that man
| who sits in the White House; that man
bearing our burdens--greater burdens
than any man since the day of Lincoln.
God sets His seal upon that work. Pa
triot. statesman, / don't care what your
politics IN, you should thank God Tor
woodrow Wilson, who has made 1t pos
stble for us all to say. Thank God, we
are at peace""
President Used No Influence.
hold no brief for President Wilson.
As a loyal, fighting Democrat in the
xnrHn for the
| prohibition amendment, / declare that
I never got any intimation from him
or from any one under him that he
didn't want me to vote for national
prohibition. l don't want any prohtbi-
| ton law put on the statute books by
the command of any President. Repub-
lican. Democrat or Progressive. Until
YOU can so educate the people, which
| their Anti Saloon League has done and
| Ia doing-that they will enact the law,
you don't want law. Keep clear OF
| partisan. pickering politics that has
done so much TO ruin many great move
| ments / don't think 1t was defeat,
| but a great and glorious victory we
had In the last Congress.
| The rest Of MIR. Decker's address was
devoted to a consideration of the evil
influence OF liquor in public life.
Liquor has a finger. in the election
| OF 1uuKeS as wen rs othcT pupllC Oii
GERS, but 1t expects less and gets less
from the Judiciary than from anyone
else. However. 1t Is the jury box and
not the militia that must enforce pro-
hibition."
| Many Addresses Feature Day.
Many addresses featured the last
day. One interesting incident was the
| departure OF DR.. Howard HI. Russell,
| founder OF the Anti-Saloon League,
on a cross-continent tour over Lincoln
Highway. He will go In the interest
| OF the Lincoln-Lee Temperance
| Legion, of which he is also the
founder Accompanying him in two
Automobiles are four college students,
| forming the "Rail-Splitter Quartette. !"
which has been greatly In demand
during the convention.
Mrs. Georgia May Jobson spoke Ia
the Hippodrome this morning on the
subject. "A Message From the South
land" In which she traced the growth
of prohibition in Virginia from the
founding Of Jamestown Island to the
Statewide campaign that put Virginia
dry. She spoke OF the work OF the
temperance organization OF Virginia
during the campaign.
An Amusing Speech.
An unique speech was delivered In
the morning by Congressman Landis,
of Indiana. which received tre-
mendous applause. The address was
a highly satiricai Characterization of
the LIQUOR interests. about every SEN
tence provoking laughter. BY pro;
hibition." he said. gamblers will be
reduced not only TO want, but to
work"
Grand juries would perish from
exposure after being packed so long,
'sPretzeis would pass away even
from public ONCE.
"Grave-diggers and prosecuting at
torneys would 60 into a decline
Business would suffer. the police
busaness would go into . decline.