The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-05
m PROHIBITION BILL
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amissioner than for the office a
head Of the States Law depart
I'd. he said. Another objection
Said be found in the fact that as
the Attorney Genera
q <gUa1d appear I'm prosecutions as both
Naaker of the charge and prosecutor
airh appearance would discredit him
knwing him TO be appearing TO sus-
MN his own case.
Empty Talk About Politics,
Mr.. White said that much has beer
I'D concerning politics. The man
-Nr2,o SAYS that this office is not IN pv-
{ixics. or that IL can be kept out %
\ polttics, is talking empty talk ne de-
c1Ared ANY question that concerns
many people is "a political question
He said that he had advised the
Democratic party 10 EN- brace ~ Us
platform the prohibition question. He
nfila thinks sudh action should De
taker by the party
III this office Of commissioner IS
created" concluded Mr. White, sub
aeurerrs elections OF the commissioner
should be by the people.
MIR. Lcedy's speech.
-ex~Tsye heard the expression by
gamblers" SAID Mir Lsedy IN begin
ming his hfty- minute speech against
the prohibition bin. that YOU can't
play against loaded dice ] don
mean to say that you are loaded IN
ys4Ae ordinarily accepted sense Of the
S10T4t--~that you have q jag on but
~ mean that yuu are loaded with
nfinaent and with sympathies, that
nay view are founded upon false
66tr1nes and false premises.
- n am no; a prohibitloulst and
never have been. not bv sympathy or
s40r political convenience, and could
NJ more. with III. light before me,
Ne a prohibitionist than ] could be a
& Mohammedan. We been told that
this ss moral question, and II II
10 moral question I must ask this
%41ouse where We are to get our stand
ard of morals
y I'VE are Christians II We were
Sdohammedaus we would take the
Moran. BIT ne are Christians and We
Unjust take as oar coae Holy Writ
n Mr. Leedy here referred % the min
3sters and declared that ihorc are GER
$aasaa members OF the cloth 10 whom
The cannot look FOR guidance. And
4when / say certain members or the
&rioth" he continued, Il don't mean
Exhe clergy in general. In the old
Rdass they practlCed shouting as an
sexpression OF their feelings, In The
~earae .ohurches today ii would not
Ts.e considered good form to shout.
h some ministers today proclaim
xthings to be found nowhere i'm Holy
writ" he said, "as ! recall the scrip
sanres. ] win say this t. tire ministers
#who ] wish were entitled not only
Ito seats on the floor as some OF them
snppear to be but to speech on the
Moor so that they might answer me
~. Refers 90 Noah's Time.
Referring to the days Immediately
following the deluFe Mr. Leedy tn
effort to show atal the Bible regard
sssi that wine with bread and oil were
the good things of life, said that
Noah had hardly landed from the
Ark before he became a husbandman
and made wine. and the Ola Ounce
rot drunk" He spoke Of Melchisa-
deah. "the high priest Of God as
administering wine. and three thou
sand years later of the Saviour MAX
ing IT. -..4
Returning to the ministry, Mr.
Ieedy said the trouble with the min
tstry today is that most of their con-
gregations do not read the Bible. IT'S
misdemeaNor for the cot aggregation to
dict what the ministers say of
the words OF the Bible. so they can
get into the pulpit on sunday and say
s&nr1hing and not he contradicted."
Mr.. Leedy said that the Church was
fablished as an institution of moral
s4uasion: that Ii was a spiritual tnstl-
ttution. He said that it was not es-
tablished as an agency OF force. Gov
sernment, he said is an agency Of
aarce. a. coalSfasted with the Church,
and he contended that was a reason
for the separation of Church and
state.
- Church. and State
He said that the people have not
dealt as civil government with the
prohibition question. If we had so
dealt with IL thirty years ago he said,
1s.this question would not have been an
sjected into politics, and the Church
into matters Of State You come just
an dangerously. near union ~ Church
and State now as you ever did,
'It is nor the Church; II is the
movement taken up by II which in
variably gets into the hands Of the
fanatics OF the religion. There were
people In the Sayiour's day who fol-
lowed him for pelf and for power"
Mr.. Iseedy charged that the cruel
Ifst statutes ever enacted were at the
hands OF the Church. the cruelist exc
scutions ever performed in the last
seiGhteen hundred years were at the
hands of the Church, and the most Vi
cArfous sacrifices have been at the de-
mRnd OF the Church / know some
Thing OF this subject
People look upon wine with con-
tnmeiy, q creation Of the devil; yet
Ethe Saviour made IL. J am tod that
He made eleven gallons at one time.
He was even called wine-bi bier"
Peters Poeerf';i Preaching.
Mr.. Leedy spoke OF the powerful
preaching Of Peter at Fent~eost, so
powerful. he quoted. that people OF
|All tongues understood him in their
eown language And they said he was
11runk with new wine" MIR. Leedy
told OF the fable of the trees which
II told In the Book If Judges. and
seeodtted Aesop with having gotten
III Idea there for his fable. RecitlnE
&hsT fable. MIR, Leedy tod how the
trees had selected q bramble TO rule
over them. and said that one Of the
two lessons the fable taught is, "You
can 20 find a BRAN bic for your COM
missioner.
This bin s the most vicious. il Is
khe most cruel, st is the most un-
thai has eyer uFeu devised
vince the Dcciarat on of Independence
This bill was conceived in sin and
born In iniquity This h!l recognizes
the rights Of neither God nor man