Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-01-28
PROHIBITION RALLY
ATTRACTS CROWD
Audience IN Republic Theatre Hears
Strong Speeches on 'Dry
Annapolis. "
PLEADS F0R SERVICE MeN
Congressman sess fleets All Points Of
Opposition Dir. CrabBe Of Anli-
Saloon League Stirs his Hear
ers On Abuse Of Liquor.

L0kONL @&AS 40 AA<nA@
eFs On Abuse OF Liquor.
Before an audience that numbered
more men than women and that filled
every seat in the Republic Theatre
yesterday afternoon, the merits OF
Prohibition and a*Dry Annapolis"
were set forth by able speakers, in
cluding Congressman s. ID. Fess, OF
Ohio; G. w. Crabbe, superintendent
Of the Anti-Saloon League OF Mary
land, and Dr. Clarence Trueman VIII
son, OF Portland. Oregon.
Prior to the meeting there was
song service led by Instructor Walter
f. Shanton, Of the Naval Academy, in
which the audience heartily joined
Col Harry J. Hopkins, who presid-
ed, called the meeting to order and in
a few remarks stated the cause OF
prohibition had his hearty sympathy
and earnest support and always has
had Col Hopkins said he wants to
see Annapolis dry and wants to have
part in making il dry, not only An
napolis. but the State and the Nation
The Rev DR. John L. Walsh, pas
tor OF the Eastport Methodist Epis-
copal Church, had the invocation.
Representative Fess Speaks.
Congressman Fess was introduced
by Col Hopkins, and made a stirring
address He said he came not as an
agitator, nor as any educator, but as
a legislator, his aim is TO lift humanity
to a higher province. It is not worth
while, he said, to discuss the evil in
huences OF the open saloon, thing
universally conceded. Movements
like prohibition, he said 80 slowly,
and at times there is encouragement,
but the seed is being sown, and the
harvest win, ultimately, be reached.
The chief argument used against
prohibition. the speaker declared, is
that it iuterferes with the rights Of
people, and another angle Of the
argument is there is no use to attempt
prohibition, for it is a name only If
you pass the law you cannot enforce
it.
The wealth of America, he said, is
not in the field. or in the mine, nor
can it be weighed by the pound or
measured by the bushel, but it is
found in the real soul power OF the
boys and girls OF America. That ma
tion that strives against the soul
power Of the boys and girls will 80 to
ruin
C0mmercialism Che Handicap.
Commercialism in the liquor busi-
ness, said Congressman Fess, is what
makes the question of prohibition so
hard to handle They tell you you are
going outside of your province when
you legislate what people shall or
shall not drink You can legislate for
wheat, and for corn, and for hogs, but
you cannot legislate fer boys and
girls-better be a hog. They say you
dare not interfere with my personal
liberty The only place you dare leg
islate against personal liberty is when
it does not interfere with American
rights, q should say human rights"
said the speaker Rights OF the pub
lie are supreme above liberty The
very existence Of government is an
infringement on liberty No man can
insist upon an unlimited exercise Of
liberty only when it does not inter-
fere with the right OF another
Liberty will not be interfered with
until it infringes upon somebody's
right" The government viii regu-
late what you eat if it is for the vel
fare of the nation; the government
will regulate what you drink, if 1t is
for the moral welfare Of the nation
The men who say you cannot inter-
fere with my right Will feel the
strength OF Uncle Sans grip.
sLiquOr HAST Coz
Congressman Fess said il in no
other way the liquor people viii be
put out of business by a Federal
Amendment The men employed ia
this business, he said, were the least
paid and the least respected, better
get into something better paid and
more respected. They have got TO go,
he said, the conscience OF the world
is against them, they are labeled. in
dicted and must go. and viii go be-
fore long. They know the liquor
traffic is doomed. Cincinnati viii
soon take wings and ay away
Hints sc Suffrage.
This problem OF the country win be
end ought to be, solved by woman.
No doubt America viii give to the
women Of the country the right CT the
solution Of. these problems II the
saloon doesn't go before they come. 1t
win as soon as they do come We
can't believe MARYLAND. one OF the
thirteen original colonies, viii take
a backward step.
Congressman Fess admonished aIl
to stay out Of everything that does
not lift the world a little higher, and
to do nothing that win make the
world lower. The duty Of every leg
islator, he said was to vote for what
the public demands. If they do. there
IS no doubt how the legislature viii
vote
At the conclusion OF Representative