The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-17

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| II may 'chaw' all the tobacco 1t wants
| to-" (Laughter.)
| No one he said. was ever made any
better by "legislation inside" but laws
can help by improving environment
and lettering conditions.
! The philosophy of prohibition. he
said, els to dig the liquor traffic up
by the roots and give humanity
chance to grow and thrive. free from
its malign influence"
! The speaker said that were he to
take a scale and place "in one pan"
the trivial laughter and pseudo good
| fellowship which come from liquor
! drinking, and in the other 1.-The tears
! that flow, the blood that has been
/ shed and the hearts that have been
! broken" the latter would preponder-
ate"
When whiskey Is abolished" he
said, 1.-The birds will sing just as
sweetly, the flowers will bloom and the
brooks will flow on just as before"
Personal Liberty.
"You hear a good deal of argument
about personal liberty" he went on.
but only when liquor ia concerned.
Take n man away from his wife and
children and subject him to the rigors
and the suffering of trench warfare,
and you hear nothing about personal
| liberty But take a mans liquor away
from him and he begins to yell about
! personal liberty"
| The question now, he said, is one of
law versus sentiment. I'VE must ed
ucate the people
All the bootleggers In Virginia, he
declared, cannot harm the state as
much as one legaliZed brewery or sa-
loon. As long as the liquor traffic
exists on any part of the earth, he
declared, the world will never be safe
for peace. III we are TO have peace
full world he said. I'VE must have
sober world"
Worldwide prohibition, he said will
come as soon as America can convince
the rest of the world by her example
of its efficacy. IF nation wide prohi-
bition is success" he continued"
the Anglo Saxon nations will adopt
II. Even Carranza," he said. ''is
fighting the liqubr traffic"
The liquor traffic. he declared. is
more dangerous than ever Germany
or Austria were. Prohibition, he said,
iis the hest preventative of peace the
} world has ever known
America Must Lead.
i America. he said, is "A richer nation
than It was before the war. America
ever has been blessed America must
lead the world to peace.
III / had the privilege of writing
the FIRST article of the peace pact" he
said. sit would be that alcohol as a
beverage be abolished"
- Nations, he said. are only the aggre-
gate of its individuals. A peaceful
people means peaceful nation. a
sober people means sober nation.
J A sober nation. he said, Is never the
aggressor. For example, he pointed
tria consumed more alcohol than any
, other two nations. Alcohol was the
:. milk and bread fed to German babies
In their cradles, To the German force
was everything. They were drunk
with the desire for conquest
: Had not the French been wine
drenched" and the English alcohol
: lied" he declared. ''the war would
have ended long ago. But 1t re-
manned for our boys. strong. clear
eyed and sober. to come upon the
scene and turn the tide OF battle"
What Is victory?" he asked. 'Tt
, ia the God-like use men and nations
put 1t to-
The speaker declared that he had
not always been prohibitionists, and
let his hearers into a bit Of his past
|; life. He eulogized Roosevelt, chat
rugged American, and reviewed his
!. congressional career in Washington.
Imbibed Personal Liberty.
when went to Washington" he
said. the city had 1900 saloons-two
In the capitol itself. On account OF
the personal liberty they had inn
hibed. some of the senators were I'M
able to answer to their names when
the roll WAS called"
He told OF vetoing the bill enacted
|. by the Tennessee Legislature providing
for statewide prohibition and how the
measure became law over his veto.
Then" no said, IT declared In ex-
: planning my action that statewide pro-
hibition was profoundly and funda-
mentally wrong Were I to write
those words anew, l should write pro-
, foundly and fundamentally right.
In the battle of life, he said, the
sober man will win the drinking man
will fail.
A feature of the meeting was the
singing OF the Fulton Baptist church
\ choir. with Mis& Cobb at, the piano.
It The work of q, corps Of ,usheFs moved
with clockiike precision under direc-
"A ton of Frank Dnnford.
Five thousand dollars was sub
!: scribed In cash and pledges to a Ave-
Year campaign fund with which to
prosecute national and worldwide
prohibition campaign.