The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-09
A MEETING OF GOOD OMEN.

o. this report can learn some of the
forces that are fighting to make a
dead letter OF the prohibition statutes
something of the hundreds of millions
which are being contributed by
brewers, distBllers, dealers and their
uouid-be patrons to elect members of
state and national legislatures, judges,
enforcement officers, and even gov
etnors. who will have elastic con-
sciences when they come to admins
ter the laws rela ting to intoxicanss.
The appeal that comes from foreign
nations, those in Europe rs we'll as
those to the south Of us, was never
pat more forcibiy than by Mr..
Nheeler.-Me- must help them for
their own sakes, because their beat
G. tixens are calling for help. Also we
must help them because our former
hrewcrs and distiiiers are invading
them There is nothing sadder than
the havoc which American rum has
made among the less progressive ma
tions-the black and yellow peoples,
specialiy--off setting the work of the
missionary. We have driven these
eyii-doers from our own shores. but
VIC have no right to pass them over
to other nations without helping
those other nations to protect them
seles against the vii. Surely this stu
alton calls for the most earnest en-
deavor, the most generous giving.
The funds will be forthcoming and
they will be effectively expended. Ask
the brewers and distiilers whether
ether funds entrusted to the Anti
Saloon league have been efrectiyel,
expended.
The resolutions adopted by the
meeting are well deserving careful
study. The Anti-saloon league. 0.
course. Is highly commended. The
active support Of all of these workers
is pledged to the state and fedora
Prohibition departments, for which
ample funds are demanded. The
Anti-saloon league co-ordinates the
work or all temperance organizations
Of all religious bodies, OF all moral
associations 1t Is therefore the mos,
powerful orga nization in the world
If its power and activities were with
drawn, II its strong. ceaseiess pressure
we're lessened. the whole structure OF
law enforcement would be in DANCE,
Of crumbling. as a physical structure
would fall should its binding sunnorts
be removed. 1t is the cohesive force
that cements all of the sentimep. in
America which is back of the eigh
teenth amendment. 1t has perrormed
the most wonderful feats in the his.
tory OF civilization, 1t will not falte,
ard it cannot fail in what it is under.
taking A saloonless world In 1890,
: W atcfi' for" II. 80 ''+~''-.'~' @'~~i'' s
No friend OF prohibition should
hesitate to endorse the work OF the
state and federal departments of pro.
hibition' They will need all the heir
that friends Of temperance can give
them. They will have enemies tna,
VIII hight them relentIessly for years
to come. Liberal provision must be
raade for their maintenance. No nub.
lic money is better expended Than
eEat which makes the people soberer
and therefore better and happier and
which has made, and will continue to
make. the country more efricient and
prosperous, All forces that work f,r
Prohibition must work together. or
their efforts will be at cross burmese.
and destroy each other.
surely this was a meeting OF good
omen, Jhe goal TO which they have
bent their steps will be reached ana
passed. Virginia win never provc n
Stacker. Her escuteheon Is bright
aud viii be kept shining.