The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-17
Prohibitionists Rejoice
 Over Country Going Dry
Large Attendance at Celebration at Y. W. O. A. Las
 Evening for William Jennings Bryan

H. Russell. president of the anti-sa- loon league.
 MT. Hohentha1 believed that future historians would consider this meet ing as a very important event in the history of the country and that Jan. ~16, 1920, would be celebrated by fu- ture generations as the great Emanci- patton Day.
 s'It was a great historic event Only as the days go by will you realize what this day means It is the auspi- cious opening of a new era. We shall measure many influences from this event. We will mark many things from this date. We have banished the 1ega1ized liquor traffic. We hope that the legislature of this state will meet within the next few months to ratify Sl1is amendment and also to ratify the suffrage amendment
 Dr. Shaw said that in his campaign for governor of Massachusetts he had found it more difficult to convince the deacons and ministers of the churches that prohibition was coming than 1t was to convince the saloon keepers. The saloon keepers there realized that the country was going dry and pre- pared for it, but, he said. he had to argue continually with the ministers and deacons to get them to see it. His platform was NO Rum, or Free Rum." -'If it is right to sell liquor the seller has a, right to sell 1t openly the same as he would any other goods.'
 I'd like to make three speeches to- night I feel so good" After the wet | test time that this old world ever had, 1 the man who was chosen by God to start a new world---old Noah---got drunk, and there are men of this present day, who if they were given l the job would do the same thing"
 ''But we are not going to let them | if we can help it, and we think we can."
 "Pd like to see old Neal Dow here tonight and get his testimony and the the cause, our old friend, St. John, of Kansas, Father Matthew and John B. Cough
 "We used to tell pitifu1 stories and make the people cry or we would go | to the prayer meeting and pray, but we found that these means did nod | get us anywhere. We then got after
 the men who had the votes, and they got scared and tlAey would vote with l us, for they did not want another
 campaign like we would put up, ii
 they didn't"
 we went next after the captain! l of industry. They saw that the so
 Der man produced more than the | drinker. We put compulsory insur
 ance over. That sounded the deatl
 kneIl of the liquor traffic. When thu
 captains of industry had to insure
 their men they came with us an,
 helped put the prohibition amend l ment over.'
 we have called the National Pro
 hibition convention for July 21. Not
 the date. We are going to hold it il
 a great Western city. The home of ;
 great statesman. A statesman who Ii
 known as the "Great Commoner' l We may nominate a candidate for tn
 presidency. We may not. It all de bends on circumstances. If the othe
 parties refuse to act right we vii
 name a man. You can guess who tn, nominee will be- Great applause. Dr. Shaw then exhorted those pres ent tO sign the printed envelope
 whict had been sent around tn tables, in which the signer pledge
 himself to make monthly contribu
 tions of sums ranging from 50 cent
 to $100 a month, for the Victory fun 1 for Prohibition in Connecticut.