Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-10
SAY PROHIBITION
IS SURE TO COME
Speakers at Meeting at Polls
Predict Nationwide
Success.
GEN. NELSON A. MILES
IS PRESIDING OFFICER
Rev. J. w. Wadman Tells of Effect
of the Liquor Traffic in Ha-
waiian Islands.

The inevitableness of nationwide
prohibition of the liquor traffic and the
speedy adjustment of the saloon from
every section of the country was en-
phasized and predicted in addresses by
speakers of national prominence at
meeting of prohibition advocates In
Polls Theater yesterday afternoon. The
meeting was held under the auspices OF
the District Anti-saloon League, the
speakers including Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
L. S. A., retired; Senator w. II. Thomp-
son of Kansas: Representative A. w.
Barley of Kentucky; Rev. Forrest ].
Prettyman. chaplain of the Senate; Rev.
Paul Hickok. pastor of Metropolitan
Presbyterian Church: Rev. Sam Small
and Rev. J. w. Wadman of Honolulu.
Gen. Miles presided.
Gen. Miles. in singing arrangement
of the liquor traffic, told OF ms ex-
perieffces with liquor in the army, be
fore the canteens were abolished. He
outlined the progress of the prohibition
movement in the last ten years, ana
aroused enthusiasm when he reclted a
poem on drink entitled The Bar to
Heaven and the Door to He'll
Liquor Evil in Hawaii.
Mr.. Wadman. who is in Washington in
the effort to obtain the enactment by
Congress of a prohibition law for the
Hawaiian Islands, told of the evils
wrought by drink among the HaWailans,
who, he said, wanted prohibition, but
whose desires were blocked by the ef-
forts and influence Of those to whose m
terests il was to continue the liquor
business in the islands. He asked the
aid of the residents Of the District OF
Columbia in the effort to have the deslr-
ed law passed.
Senator Thompson asserted that Wash
ington cannot be made the most beauu-
full capital in the world if saloons are
nermitted to remain. Nine-tenths of the
reasons why boys and girls OF the tinted
States are compelled to do without edu-
cation and the necessities OF life. ne SAID,
are to be found in the hquor business.
Mr.. Small predicted that before another
President is inaugurated three-fourthS OF
the states will not only ask, but demand:
that prohibition shall be enforced all
over the country.
Prohibitionists in Majority.
He asserted that nobody should be per-
mitted 20 "drunkard1ze the nation S
capital, because. he said. I'VE do not
want a wet capital Of dry nation He
aroused enthusiasm by declaring that
I'VE prohibition people are no longer a
minority: we are a majority
Rev. Dr. Prettyman, in his talk. as
serted that the people OF the United
States can never utilize the maximum
power Of democracy until behind them
is the force of character which can only
come with the elimination Of the saloon.
The Invocation was pronounced by Rev.
william Oscar Roome. rector Of EN- :
manuel Protestant Episcopal Church
Others beside the speakers who occupied
sea1s on the stage were Representative
Charles H. Randall of California. Rev: G.
A. Vincent president of the Pastors Fed
Grafton; Rev L. Morgan Chambers. Rev.
John Ma cMurray. Rev. John Van Schaick,
Rev. George A. Miller. Rev H. +. Lutz,
Rev Lindley Clarke and Rev C. F'ultz.
Senator Wesley L. Jones Of Washington
state and Senator James X. Vardaman
of Mississippi.