The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-18
Speakers of Note Heard in
Support of Movement
Against Whiskey. e
LIQUOR TRAFFIC
SEVERELY HANDLED
Pulpits of Several City
Churches Filled by Dis
tinguished Speakers.

lnaugurating the statewide prohi-
bltlon campaign, the pulpits of sew
eral or the city churches were filled
Sunday at both morning and evening
services, by prohibition speakers. DIR.
A. c. Bane, of California, financial
secretary of the National Anti-Sa-
loon League, speaking last night at
the First Methodist church, his ring
ing challenge to the liquor interests
and the Kaiser aroGsing his audience
to enthusiastic support, which was
evidenced in almost continuous ap-
plause, and a generous financial re-
sponse. through cash and pledges to
the work of the organization of which
DIR. Bane is the financial secretary.
At the morning service of the
First Baptist church DIR. Bane also
addressed large congregation, and
the contributions to the cause which
he represents were very liberal. At
both services DIR. Bane attacked the
liquor problem and its solution in
the same vigorous and forcible way.
DIR. Bane said in part:
DIR. Bane's Speech.
Americas first business is to WIN
this war, hence we must remove all
obstacles to that victory, and our
greatest domestic obstacle is alco-
HOllC llQuOT. ITOHkUlJlOn mas DE-
come moral, physical, industrial
and economic necessity.
We cannot win this war without
money, yet the liquor traffic costs
us annually over twelve billion dol
lars, enough to pay all Of our ex-
penses of the war.
We need food, yet the liquor traffic
is wasting three and half million
tons of foodstuffs annually. The
brewers use seventy million bushels
of grain, one hundred million pounds
of molasses annually. We need this
for food.
more than eight million tons of coal
annually, besides all the saloons con-
sumo. Schools, churches, hospitals
and factories have had to close for
want of fuel, while the breweries
and saloons remaining open burning
coal. What kind of a civilization is
it that will stand for this?
We need munitions, but our pro-
ductive power is reduced third by
liquor saloons. We will soon have
an army without food or munitions
unless we stop the waste Of the
liquor traffic.
We need transportation facilities,
coal cannot be carried to our factor
les, SHIPS ana MONIES IOT idCk Oh cars
yet the brewers use 1900 cars an
nually, and transportation will win
or lose this war for US.
We need men at their best, and /ef-
ficicnt. Liquor and vice have already
robbed us of about one-third Of the
men called to the colors under the
draft. 1t will make our soldiers less
efficient and destroy their charac-
ters. We have passed law making
it crime to sell liquor to soldier
or sailor, yet liquor men are doing
it in every army camp of the nation.
They are making our soldiers less
fit to fight. Fifteen men are under
arrest for selling liquor to soldiers IN
Pensacola.
The United States makes eight
times the beer that Germany does,
yet now Germany, to win the war,
has forbidden the making of beer.
We certainly ought to try and win
the war for our country to prohibit
the making and selling of liquor.
Since distilling has been stopped,
the American liquor traffic is in the
hands of Germans, who don't want
us to win the war. Americas