The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-24
PROHIBITION ALIVE
N MARYLAND YET
HASN'T Died ana WIN Not He Buried
Insists DR.. Hclsso, President Of tho
Anti-SAloou League There

Baltimore. Nd. Nov 7a.-Prohibi-
ton 10 the livsst corpse that was ever
buried at an election in Maryland.
according to the statement of Rev.
DR.. ]. II. Heisse. president of the
Anti-Saloon League Of Maryland.
More than that. DR.. Heisse IL re-
joicing over the general advance Of
tho movement in the nation instead OF
sulkin1 over the setback hero, and
II preparing to issue forth to the COM
bat 1t once instead Of waiting a
decade or 80 for resuscitation.
The word discouraged has long
been torn from my dictionary" he
said yesterday. Listen: Dry men
elected In Indiana, Florida and Utah
foreshadow prohibition In those States
by legislative enaetments or through
the referendum. In New York State
about 500 saloons were voted out BY
IN overwhelming vote Washington and
Colorado refused those beer amend
ments. AL the towns In Alaska voted
dry. Michigan IL in the dry column
BY $1,000 majority. Nebraska, by 35.-
900: Montana. BY 20. 900 and South Da-
kotA. by $4,000. Where u room for
teAr6f
with washington and Frederick
Counties in Maryland voting dry and
HAvre do Grace cleaned up, we have
no room for discouragement. Let
others have the blues We now have
line on the whole situation.
No Votes Bought
There was much money spent by
the drya but We did not debauch the
electorate. Not single vote was
bought No mans morals were low
cred through any dollar OF ours. 1t Ia
conceded that the opposite party spent
enormous sums. Was any mans vote
bought! I challenge an answer.
And you are talking about prohi-
bitton being dead in Maryland for ten
years to como. Another guess is yours,
The liquor men may as we'll prepare for
more determined war, and the ex-
penditure of even larger sums"
DR.. Heisse then referred to his
widely advertised statement concern
ing the alleged benefit Of regulation In
Baltimore County. charged that It
was wrenched from its setting 20 be
given an entirely different meaning
from that shown by the context and
challenged the liquor interests to pub
lish his entire statement
The effort to drag me as president
liquor camp" he continued. was q
performance for the time highly en-
tertaintng for them. but appeared
ridiculous to all who know where /
have stood on the firing line. What
Is the result? For their pains they
have continued mo and hundreds of
my friends a. their sworn enemies,
tenfold more determined to night the
traftic- shall never cease until my
tongue IL paralyzed and my pen drops
from my powerless fingers
Big Change in Decade.
Personally. regard any device to
shield traffic 80 hurtful as the liquor
trade as the child OF the devil. as an
enervattng factor in n progressive CIV
ilization. as q specimen of legislative
folly that mon ten years from now will
blush to think that they once espoused
it l know the whole history of high
license in Maryland. particularly in
Baltimore city, and can tell the story.
The prohibition problem dead for
a decade! Ten years from now every
respectable newspaper In this city.
with a vast majority OF our citizens.
will be mortified that q barroom was
ever tolerated upon our streets or In
any part of the Commonwealth.
We shall not abuse. No religious
lines viii DO drawn. No church dig
nitary. high official. busin ess or pro-
fessional citizen Will be tormented
with sharp words The future will be
on the broad lines Of intelligent ap-
peal, and all phases of reform effort
will cooperate in ono glorious strug-
gle to win . victory over local saloon
conditions"