The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-16
ENGLAND CONTINUES TO WORRY
OVER ANTI PUBLIC HOUSE LEAGUE

E,nKla is making much russ
over the activities OF the Anti
saloon league Of America which has
repr esentatives at work in that
country by invitation of British
temperance societies, making known
10 the British public the truth
about prohibition in the United
States Repeated illusions are made
in the press especially to William +.
tPussyfoot) Johnson, who appears
to he the particular center for
Journalistic curiosity. In a recent
( issue Of the London DAiy Mail.
johnson is the principal INFECT of
two leading articles and Is men
toned In rive other places. his alb
sencr frou "a naval celebration to
which he had never been invited and
which he had never thought IF at
tending being regarded as mpor
FAINT news.
0ue ~ thu Daily Matl's articles
discusses Johnson's personal ap-
pearauee and IS accompanied by a
picture Of the quiet gentleman who
has been the target of so much I'M
friendly comment Written by the
reporter who first discovered =
Jehnsou's activities. the article
says
UheartbfnR fellow mortal and
framing ham into a national charaG~
ter h.as it's dra ~ backs
For oac thing. nay name seems no
lanser To be what Somerset House
afFs II IS, It's -ffulto Pussy" now
everywhere and all the time. even
I in public, and you can get tired of
! being greeted hike that in public
Next / am apparently expecte
to be Mr. John%nnfs keeper. to
know all about his FIRST love and
VIVA, size collars he takes, and to
/ be the very detphic oracle OF booze
/ A third and eternal query. What
sort of an old fellow is heo@' has,
+ / grant YOU o certain legitimacy
Ny friend from kansas seerna
TO have caught on aa few figures
/ do that fit across our stage The
/ reason being that he stands for
thtn-lipped repression In a word that
/ is determined IA live, for yesterday
| it died.
wen. I WIN ten Won what + think
Of him and then for ever hold my
peace
Physical sifc-Mr johnson ia
sixty and Six feet haven't
weighed him bur hrs chair creaks
like sixteen stone, -and then some :
believe they're gong 10 put "A
picture Of him in somewhere here,
so YEN can lQak- IT that and ahsesr b
this In addition; he has big. Brown
ever open eyes, thick hips and a
set Of pear'y, monster teeth OF
which another johnson. Jack of that
iik might well be proud
He has a brushy, black rnoustache
no Ia ka faS
and he wears Fickwick rsasses. He
Is shiny bald deaf and has an ex-
PlosIve laugh
His most pleasing charaet er4stSc is
his voice--a auset, musical, purrine
sing song drawt- Sometimes you tind
Yourself listening to his voice and
not 70 its master
Personally, Mr. johnson has sew.
"ral Qualities that please He is MOI
htt loud or boaStful I've never
heard him talk about himself unless
E1aded on. He is. in fact the type
NJ American citizen that gets on best
on this side, and have no doubt thai
\ The Amt Pu bile House. league tooR
that fact thoroughly into account ir
sending him here
He is an far removed from Out
snuE and pecksniT SsYggfns as the
kaiser IT, from heaven. PuSsyfcot il
90 moral fanatic, no anaernic prince
OF virtue IN puri-tyraunical old wo,
man, no suburban Torquemada- II,
is bic. vigorous, highly paid mar
| ~ the world. with a keen sense oi
| humour, n wide range OF converse.
tom "a palate for good cigar, and
an eye for those delightful thing
that occasionally pass US by as vs.
ton painfully MP our pathway.
Having read this, YOU ask: '"T'h er
what on earth is ne doing In the
+ tiii -joy business
You've answered vour own ques-
ton Ties in the business. Just a.
! Push pen for a living M John.
son rs push ing the dry goods Hell
tell you himseif he's not in IT to rair
us, and least OF all EnElishmen, eter,
nifty, II just happens 10 he his bus
mess Joh Of work in life to make the
world soft for democracy
Hes been at IT thirty years. FTrst
he made Kansas dry" then he
sought to Keep Kansas dry and il
is 10 his creditor the contrary
that to-day Kansas is the driest state
in the Union.
and pussyfooted about. whiskiue
away their whiskay lie was gettine
q good salary all this time from the
government and now he's getting a
hotter one from the Anti Public
House league
You want 10 note this halter fact
Tae Anti Public House league had
no use for white-veined heaven
sent workers They could stay on
their local Mount Athos. The Anti
Pubiic-House league engaged bust
ness men as its agents, as sound
business proposition, and they viii
do the same here. Because the great
est obstacle in Pussyfoot's way here
and he knows this to be true--is
the present temperance advocate in
thts country. really impossible "oid
woman" The other day at Birming
ham r~uswyfoot felt almost as much
out OF sympathy with them playing
their harps preuiatuely 40 l did.