The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-04

them in and lodge them and feed
/ them. They are compelled to sleep
or the roadside or in their machines
The speaker paid, his respects to
! whar he termed a sahserviant press,
which refrains from mentioning in
stances of officers of the law end in
nooent persons being waylaid and
Killed by hootleggers, but raise a
'hullabaloo" when officers Of the pro-
! hibition department. in sell defense,
are compelled to shoot the blockade
runner This same press he said,
had a lot to say about what they
We're pleased to term the Woodstock
! IT fair
He commended Inspector w. c.
Hall. and paid a fitting tribute to j, c.
Shellhorse and William Z. Payne,
than whom war nor peace has pro-
duced no greater heroes. he said,
He reviewed ON OF the activities
of the prohibition department. Its Of
%ficers. he said. come in for a good
deal of sIande and are constantly in
danger of their lives. Although one
of them is an ordained minister and /,
myself, am something of a Methodist
preacher. all of. us have been accused
of being bootleggers. There are some
w ho say that Druggist 'Shsi3d made "a
fortune in filing whiskey prescrip-
tons, and that ! got half of IL"
He refuted published accounts of Of
ffcers of the department searching the
berths of women passengers on rail
: way trains. He was warned ef-a
movement on foot to get tho general
assembly to enact legislation which
will weaken the prohibition laws and
take away from the prohibition Of
hcers what protection they now en-
joy.
Predicts Whiskcyiess World.
Dr. Ira Landrith, of Texas and ZEN
nessee. who sometime \ predicted a
~saloonless America by 1920 and now
prophesies a whiskeyless world ny
1890. next was introduced by Or.
Scott.
He addressed his hearers as fellow
fanatics. hypocrites and ccnfscators
of other peoples property" Il hope"
he said. that @ nave been called
all of these things. A man no longer
is known by the company he keeps,
hut by the enemies he makes. ] love
a man who mates enemies-providcd
they are the right kind of enemies"
Any man who does not enforce the
liquor laws of the country. if he is an
officer of the law, Is a perlurer. he de-
iclared. If a nan docs not uphold en-
,forcement of the prohibition laws. he
is an anarchist and a Bolshevfst. he
went
we went to France to tell the Hun
that he could not, with impunity, out
rage young womanhoed and run the
hayonet through the hearts of babies
and little children. and the press Of
the country was with President Will
son. But. this same press, OF nefari-
Gus portions of IL which oppose prohi-
hition. sits still and says nothing when
the demon liquor traffic runs its bayo-
net through the hearts of not only
babies and little children. but the I'M
born OF six or seven generations"
The New York Times and the New
York World incidentally came in for a
rebuke on the part OF the speaker. An
opponent OF the prohibition laws. he
said. IL an enemy to the American re-
public, of law and a menace to So
cicty.
Il lever abuse the liquor traffic"
, he said. II have always been taught
not to speak i'll OF the dead. John
B%arleycorn will be eternaily dead July
J.. 1919. The liquor traffic knows it
and is packing up it's tents and is GO
FROM
:. Says Wilson Numbered.
Secretary of the Treasury Carter
Glass and Acknowledgement Mitchell
Palmer. he said, both have declared
, for enforcement of the prohibition
laws. III Mr.. Palmer enforces the pro-
hibition laws-and he says he will
mark my prediction. he will be the
next nominee OF the Democratic party
for the presidency"
Every politician is looking for a
seat on the water wagon, he said.
President wilson," he said. lis the
!. greatest statesman OF fourteen coun-
tries. n | followed him when he de-
clared war upon Germany, when he
wrote his famous fourteen points, and
when he went abroad to take part in
the peace deliberations, but when he
invites us back into the wine DOR
! and the beer gardens for another six
months. l refuse to follow him fur
{ ther.
) 1T Is only when he hlunders hat I
! refuse to follow him." he added, and
{ ne made the biggest blunder Of his
I~official career. a blunder that he would
, not have made had he remained in
America. BY the grace OF God, we will
%repudiate his mistake" he cried, We
t hemently.
He predicted that the Democratic
! party in congress would not uphold
the president In his beer n light wine