The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-14

kew, DAVID Hepburn. Supeflnten-
dent of the Anti-S Saloon League of Nir
ginia, is planning a great prohibition
rally to be held here on June 3.
Among the speakers will be William
Jennings Bryan and other famous
leaders in the temperance cause
There will be three meetings. morning,
afternoon and night, which will be at
tended by representative citizens
from every section of the state of
Virginia national anti-saloon league
officials and foreign representatives
who are touring This country to see
for themselves what prohibition has
meant 70 this states.
This meeting will be one OF the
greatest temperance rallies ever held
in Virginia. Upon its adjournment.
many of the delegates and friends OF
the league will attend the Anti
Saloon League convention in wash
ington, June 4-l9, inclusive.
superintendent Hepburn. has Just
returned from his campaign in the
state of Georgia, where, with Ex-
Governor Malcolm r. Patterson OF
Tennessee, held rallies in the interest
Of national and world wide prohibit
Mr.. Hepburn says that the Anti
Saloon League OF Georgia. under the
leadership Of their superintendent,
DR.. G. o. Jones. is holding three
hundred of these rallies The meet
ings are creating a great deal Of in
terest and enthusiasm among the
citizens of that state, and their CON
tribultion for the campaign will 20
well over the 100000 mark. II il evi-
dent from the experience of Mr.. Hep
burn and Ex-Governor Patterson in
Virginia and Georgia that the people
are not only overwhelmingly in favor
OF national and world wide prohi-
hiuon,4 but in the rigid enforcemen MT
[ of the state and national prohibitory
laws
As in Virginia, Mr.. Hepburn found
several daily papers in the state of
Georgia that were actively opposing
national constitutional prohibition,
and any effort on the part Of the dry
forces of America to extend the
blessings of prohibition to the lands
beyond the sea. But such views are
not being shared by the great masses
of the people who have given 50
generously of their substance for the
world war and so largely OF the
manpower of the nation to make the
world safe for democracy. They feel
that, if it is worth while to give their
best to the allied nations to make the
world safe for democracy, they should
help them to obtain the benefits Of
prohibition.
Mr.. Hepburn says that in converse
ton with state officials in Georgia and
other prominent citizens he finds that,
since the bone dry law has been
adopted, insanity. poverty and crime
have been very materially reduced.
One judge volunteered the statement
that crime had been reduced in his
district alone thirty-five per cent.
When asked concerning the Illicit
manufacture and sale of liquor in
Georgia and the recent killing in that
state at the town of Millen, Mr.. Hep
burn said that there had been a num-
Der of shooting cases. One occurred
at Ashburn. while he and the governor
were speaking in that town, and the
murder of sheriff and his assistant
occurred at Millen. He also read OF
a number Of other lawless acts in the
newspapers Of that state. Notwith-
standing these reports OF lawiess acts
on the part OF a certain element in
Georgia, he had not observed In hts
travels any drunkenness or lawless-
ness either on the streets, on the
highways. the trains or street cars of
that commonwealth and the over
whelming sentiment Of Georgia In in
favor of the officials OF the law who
are charged with its enforcement, and
from what he could see and hear the
prohibition law Ii a success In the
state OF Georgia.
Mr. Hepburn further stated that II
n his Arm conviction that 1t In more