Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-11-18
TO NuLL|FY
DRY LAW, IS CHARGED
Report on Temperance 8
State Baptist Association
Fiery Paper.
SAssBRT VETS ARE FANATICS
stringent Enforcement of Prohibi-
X lion Declared Vital Drinking
5iiiEhbrows" Arc Declared Respon-
sible for AUonshinfng "LowbroHs,"

\. NORFOLK, VA. Nov. 17.-Whole
Sfsale violations of the State and ma
a tional prohibition laws, lax enforce
Sment OF same, and efforts to breal
Z the effectiveness OF the Eolstead net
arc among the topics which the Bap.
list General Association OF Virginia
discussed today on the report of tn.
committee on temperance.
The First BAPTIST Church, New.
port News. was selected as tho place
for the 1922 meeting OF the aseocia.
\ ton. Rev l.. Is. jackson, of Alex.
! andria. will lie the preacher, Will
Rev. r. S. Owens. OF Roanoke. rs
!; alternate.
Tho temperance report OF DR.
! Blackwell is. in part, as follows:
For forty years the drys have
been lighting for the enactment OF
, dry laws, State and national. That
collective has been won. Now the
objective has shifted from enactmen;
Ito enforcement. and the fight ie
hercer than ever 1t Is the vets last
I stand. They arc furiously desperate.
Their spirit is dcmoniacal. Their
machinery and motives the basest--
LIQUOR. lucre, lust and lies.
: "Firet of all we declare unto you
that however much it may have ap-
pearcd during four years of a damp
State administration. that blinkcd al
feeble enforcement, that NirEinians
l%crc falling asleep on the outposts.
or taking to bomb proofs in the rear.
But in the past few weeks that have
heard huglc blast sounding the
charge and caught the vision of new
leadership. and on their banners Is
written large: old Virginia IS awake
next four years In the fight for Wig
orous enforcement or all law.
The fight is with a fanatical mi
norty of lawicss pullifers OF the
Constitution and State prohibition.
and no bravo man can be Stacker
That this inpudcnt minority Is ia
1natical is proved by the false claims
OF being majority. in face OF the
fact that the eighteenth amendment
debate in the rrcss. pulpit and lcgls-
.lativc halls, by the largest majority
of States that ever ratified an amend
rucnt That every referendum since
the amendment only adds TO that ma
ssrity, even making tho present Con-
r.rcss the dryss, ever elected: and
don't forge, New Jersey went dry
last week.
Charges Liquor FnnaticIsm.
This lawlcSs liquor gang is fanat-
iral enough to arroEate to itself
ma iority of voters. and that. too, In
the face OF the added nineteenth
amendment. which gives women the
ballot: and two-thirds OF them do
now. and always will, cast their votes
with the drys.
"'The fanaticism of this unscrupu-
lous minority is seen in it's false
claim that the enforcement of pro-
.hibition is an added intolcrable finan-
.cial burden on the backs of the tax
payers. In face OF the fact that the
governments report for the past year
teAows that from fines, penalties and
( eonfscations amounting to $4,000
'uoo. ten times as much money has
come TO the government ny II has
scost TO enforce prohibition. The cost
TOT enforcement has been $4,000 0O
and million OF this has been paid
1 by brewers as result OF their vio-
gIation OF the law. 1t takes wiid-eycd
!fanatfcism 10 claim tina; prohibition
fcosts the taxpayers too much.
Dem orniizcd by Prohibition.
SThey all come from the Same
I school OF crime-the old saloon. These
fanatics would have us believe that
!tnis bunch. until prohibition came.
! had nothing clinging about them but
"the odor OF sanctlty." Now the
ttouch Of prohibition has demoralized
}them! Prihihition has wrought n
magic wonder. not by creating ras-
tcals, but revealing them. Did the
{nld prohibition law Of Mount Sinai.
9'Thou Shalt Not Steal, make thieves?
Did Thou Shalt Not Bear False Wit
Iness,' make liars? Did Thou Shalt
! Not KILL make muTdcrcrs? No. hut
lit revealed nurderers, liars and
Thieves. Il. l..
During October ts.'re were al3
sarrests in Norfolk for drunkenness
WHO arc they Chiefly foreigners
Tor blacks, or old soia lot over from
old saloon days, or rcarrcs,s. who
3have been before the court time and
ftime again. and at every rearresl
fcounted as ''drunkS' against drys