The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-09
CONGRES S|NAN SANDERS SAYS -
PROHIBITION |SHERE To STAY
AMY ONE WHO THINKS
COUNTRY WILL NOT STAY DAH
IS A FOOL.
Els ADDRESS LAST EVENING A BIG
FEATURE OF THE STAT W. "
T. o, CONVENTION.
ELECTED AT MoREINe
WILL ADJOURN TODAY.

or commanding presence. dominating
norsonali,y. persuasive cloqucnce,
genuine Southcrner and an cntnusLast.ff
pruhihtiuniSt. Congressman HhiueL'
Louisiana, cX-govrrnGr on tn%, at
Inc Fourth street NJ. T.. CHURCH last
rirht. holding his hearers spell-hound
whiic for one hour he dscourscd on
By way Of introduction, Congressman
Sanders said: "One OF the first talks l
ever made was to the woman I'M
ian Temperance Union of my state. ~
was not then tho burning question tIht
II is now: then il was an abstract ldca'
an now il is fact. But the liquor man
las not vet cOmprchcndcd that fact. lie
says: IF the country. ever goes nrH'
mot vet realizing that II is reality
and that tho country is going 70 stay
dry. Onc-third of tho house and one
third of the senate and thirteen states
viii hold il so. Any one who things the
country will not stay dry is TT sub
inct for the asylum. under the Cnnstitu-
lion of the United States il Is. physical
and legal impOSSibility 10 change oh
,hc 10Th Of January next tn" 18TH am
cndmcnt to the constitution will become
part of that immortal document. ana
We are going To see that every man.
woman and child lives up TO it; Any
man or SGT Of mon who violates it Will
b" dealt with just as any other criminal.
Article Is prohibits tho manufacture.
sale. impr"taH"n. cXportatiGn or trans
rropic did It. Congress simply passed
IN" law. tn" obligation rests with inc
people to sec To it that il is respected.
because in the final analysis this re-
public Of ours is nation, or publIc op-
! inion. and it makes the law and en-
forces the law. So therefor" il is up
to you TO enforce the law by clectinS
officers who will see that it is obserr-
cd"
will man obey the law" asked Con-
| gresham Sanders "Of course not.
| There has never been II law either hu.
! man or G'vinc that was not broken. al
broken. But should all the statutes be
destroyed because the law is broken?
Man is deferred from crime because he is
sure OF punishment. After while when
| IT will be their pride. We will see pro-
hihition violated hut tho great distinc-
| tion between common whiskcv drinking
and that Of today will he that before
/ the government supported IL and now II
! does not
MANY argue that We have the right
: To personal liberty. The only man who
! has the right to personal liberty is the
! tinnship has been tho history Of the
/ actions Of one nation or one person ms
, it reacts on that Of others. and who can
! noint 10 any good that liquor has ever
/ Frightened the life of n little child or
; gladd"nrd tho heart Of n ,woman?"
| The speaker concluded by saying
| that national rrohhition will make the
! nation great and powerful: that America
will become III" vanguard Of all the
nations Of the earth. simply because az
| tho fact that drunken man cannot
! compctc with III" sober nation and tho
| world will have to go dry to avoid hay
| ing commcrc" and business absorbed by
! America.
! Before tho address n prayer was offer
/ Cd by Roy. G. w. Cory and its cOnClu-
! sion tho Roy. Clarence T.. Allen. gave
! IN" b"ncdiction.