The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-20
18TH AMENDMENT
MUST Be 0BEYEO
Rev. DIR. s. Parks Cadman Delivers
Striking Address In Brooklyn.

Rev. DIR. s. Parks Cadman Delivers
Striking Address I'm Brooklyn.
one OF the greatest addresses on
the Eighteenth amendment that has
yet been made was delivered by the
Rev DR.. s Parkes Cadman in
Brooklyn. \. Y, recently.
DR.. Cadman completely punctured
the current arguments of anti-Proht-
hitionists, great small, heFe-and
abroad, with his unanswerabie logic
and Keen reference TO facts CT science
and history In answer to G. X. Ches-
terton and William Watson. the great
English poet. who profess To see
some good in drink. DR., Cadman said
Drink is now as il has always been
since the unlucky patriarch Noah de-
bauched himself-the most subtle and
cumulativ agency for the physical
and moral destruction of men of the
northern temperatures among all their
sumptuary habits. There is no call to
twice Stay the slain by expatiating
upon the enormities, the losses, the
poverty, The crime, the vice. which
can be justly laid at the door of this
habit. The leopard has never changed
it's spots. the serpent in the cup has
Cant, however glorified by rhetorical
dressings, cannot successfully contra
dict those cold facts which modern
science has made the property of the
average schoolboy"
After speaking of the horrors in
separable from more ancient drinking
places. DR.. Cadman gives this esti
mate of modern places in which in
toxicants are sold
The day cafe and saloon
are the disruputable remnants of that
fearful epoch OF Teasing. fiddling. buf-
foonery and cruelty, and ! recite these
bygone evils because there is a persis-
tent attempt to perpetuate them which
! is too often belittlcd or ignored by
/ those professed leaders and guides of
public opinion who are acting from a
lower level of ethical persuasion and
one detrimental to the general well
! fare
! or the part that prohibition played
in the winning of the war DR., Cad
man gave the following eloquent and
convincing summary:
Then came the call to arms for "A
world war, and every general and ad-
miral of consequence arrayed himself
against the saloon. Secretaries re-
sponsible for military and business
/ equipment in an unparalleled ordeal
demanded that brewers take their
hands off the threats of our conse-
Grated youth. Ii was logical that
plain folks who are not monarchs of
/ the tripod. nor poets, nor essayists.
but citizens in whom Lincoln used to
delight, should argue that what breaks
down men in war will break them
down in peace-The fortress Of
| HaEhly 1p9nntiSpt a fresh
pect and Wanted its patriotism. 1t
would do everything for our holy
cause except get off its back But it's
treachery, it's animalism, it's foreign
complexion and essence overwhelmed
any spasmodic efforts at betterment.
The saloon remained the center of
! lawlessness, of inefficiency. and even
lmutterings of treason and OF con-
spiracy against the state"
Those who claim that the drink
problem in Europe is being properly
handled by regulation are invited to
read these words from a man who
knows:
ITO pirate about the superior ethics
of Britain on the drink issue is utterly
ridiculous. Visit her towns and
cities, or those OF Ireland, and ask
yourselves what sort of personal
liberty this is which fills their Sums
and purlieus with hordes OF wretched
creatures. Those who have seen them
with perceptions unblunted by custom,
undeadened by familiarity. have been
sickened by one of the saddest spec
tacles Europe can furnish to the
Canadian or the American onlooker.
I know that there is a steady improve
ment, that intoxicat ton is on the wane
But do not know Of any good reason
why we should not hasten it's total ex-
tinction. 1t surrenders nothing of it's
rebellion against Gods order in the
earth except under complusion.. Why
then. should it be tenderly handled or
approached with any fundamentally
except that Of merciless war? You do
not gradually repreB typhoid or the
bubonic plague. You stamp them out
regardless of minor considerations.
And drinks victims are infinitely
larger in number and in dire success
sion than those of pestilence of war"
Speaking Of those who are now
loudly protesting against the passage
of the Eighteenth amendment DR.
Cadman said:
interested and the greedy. OF the b.
hemians. the lovers of pleasure. safe
or unsafe. the alien groups of foreign
tendency and taste. They may not
relish the impeachment OF guilty and
blood stained system. But what are