The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-09

briefly, will re-enter the Industrial life
Of Europe
"Burdened with taxes and confront
ed with desperate necessity. the ma
tons there will make superhuman ef-
fort to regain the markets they have
lost.
III, In competition with this new
effective and insistent force, we are
mastery. we ourselves must attain to
high-even the hishest--efnciency
las a nation we must be at our
best in physical condition and mental
attainment. Human machinery Of
Bessemer steel will be needed. Burn
ed-ou sheet-iron won't do.
While the traffic In alcohol sur
wives, the nation cannot be at its best
A people whose drink bill aggregates
every year more than $4,000, 900. 900
cannot hope for that"
Favors Womnn's Suffrage.
Mr.. Hanly committed himself IN
equivocahly Of an amendment to the
Federal Constitution granting suffrage
to women. Speaking to the committee
n" said;
For forty years you have favorei
woman suffrage. Your attitude in re-
gard to 1t has been neither por1 or
FEAR nor forced upon you by party
expedfency. To you womans en-
franchisement has been and is a rnea-
sure of simple tustice--a thing she has
right to claim. On this | stand four
square with You, and II given power
we will not be satisfied to recon
mend the extension OF the franchise
TO her by States, or to recognize the
right OF each State TO settle the u1es-
ton for Itself. hut will by consttt,1-
uonal amendment. forbid any State
to deny or ahridEe her right to vote
because OF her sex The enfranchise-
ment OF the black man was establish
ed by an amendment to the Federal
Constitution. He will not he content
with less solemn guarantee TO the
women OF the nation.
women would have long since
been enrranchised by federation ac-
tion but for the we'll known fact that
her enfranchisement would have dealt
death blow to the traffic in alcohol.
It's wrong to her has been and is so
grave and deep as to impel her to
strike fatal blows when armed with
the ballot.
Knowledge OF this fact has led the
traffic to resist her acknowledgements
with every influence at its command.
and the leaders OF the more dominant
parties fearing tho traffics vengeance,
have not been brave enough, and are
not now brave enough, to meet the
issue. Halfway pledges wrung by
fear Ia all they offer. And these they
do not intend to keep"
Warns Against Militarism.
The creation and maintenance OF an
American merchant marine, indie
pendent of subsidies or OF Federal
ownership, the pursuance of a strong
policy in Mexico. the upholding of the
Monroe doctrine, the retention of the
philippines for the present and a
form OF military preparedness were
set forth by Mr.. Hanly as his ideals
and those of the prohibition party In
speaking OF preparedness. he warned
against militarism, but advocated "a
preparedness sufficient to preserve our
territory from invasion, to enforce our
international obligations and to defend
our ideals and purposes on the high
seas If necessary" The navy now be-
Ing provided for and the constitution
or adequate coast defense would be
sufficlent for this purpose. he added
He continued:
Without it there can be no adequate
program of preparedness where must
come consideration OF another matter,
the major tenet Of our faith. the aboli-
ton OF the beverage liquor traffic.
without il hire can be no adenuata
preparedness. In case of war we
would find that Europe has found,
that greater than enemy armies in
this Zoe OF humankind 1t knows no
rag, nom atriotism. 1t is the foe OF
all.
We should not wait for war, to
strike and destroy it. We ought to
do il in time of peace. do 1t now when
the strain of war is not upon us
"Of all the political parties we
alone are pledged to destroy II, and
II given power We will keep the
pledge"