Tillamook headlight., October 06, 1910, Image 3

TinLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, OCTOBER 6, 1910
tory laws, and want to have the license men,—that is what tney want to de­ fool! Blit is that charity?
Is
My friend said thin is a wave that
system legislation remain in effect.
stroy. Now don't you think these people
a business transaction?
la is going to recede. I wish it were
I was in Denver last year in May, have a right to defend their property? it
it a crime? Yes!
The Supreme true what he said about Wockelellow
and there we had a tight on hand for Say! Let me show you -don't ¿you Court
every state in the Union giving half a million dollars to the
state wide prohibition ; and to make a know that property rights is the basic has so of
declared
it,
and
the Supreme Anti Saloon League; the statement
long story short (as I have only 30 foundation of society and government ?
of our United States has so is absolutely incorrect, but I wish
minutes in which to speak) 1 desire to Not that the dollar should be above Court
declared it, and under that decision it were true for 1 think we could
say to you that the women of Denver the man, but the dollar represents the even
Louisiana lottery, from take the "taint“ off and du a lot of*
(for the women vote in Colorado), to­ brains, the energy and the ambition which the
our friend Storey comes, good with it. The simple case i
gether with the men of Denver, voted of men, that ia what the dollar repre­ had to state
go down before the rising
we go to these towns we g, •'
against that proportion, and on the sents, and it is tlie basic foundation of tide of Christian civilizutinn, be­ when
17th day of May of this year the city society, and altho some of them say: cause thia nation saya: We will by voluntary Contribution that trA*J
pay our traveling expensejp-
of Denver went against prohibition by that is the “root of all evil", still I not be in partnership with crime. to
not as ii reward for any teni|Y,e ’’O'e
17,(100 majority. Why? Because the never saw any of them yet that would (Prolonged applause). And just as speeches
we are making whLe ,f?r*
women, whom it is said are often ar­ give up any of the “evil”. (Cheers)
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gambling went down before its ad­ Storey represents the more j/1() "',v
rayed with prohibition, and it is claim­
vance. am! as shivery went down and
iKvwertiil
,n
(Last Sunday afternoon there was a lively debate in ed by these people that they naturally Dr. Wilson’s Address. before tlie red tide of war, and prize Oregon today, the urgaiiizath.)^
Greater x.../””
would vote with the prohibition party,
went down, because they Home Rule Association, and every"
B Opera House in this city between the “drys” and did not so vote in this instance, because Rev. Clarence True Wilson, re­ fighting
were not business but crime.—so 1 man is supported by salaries paid
fe "wets,” which drew a full house. Numerically the the women of Denver went to the presenting the National Anti Saloon believe, my friends, that sooner or by the Oregon Brewers and Whole­
meetings iust as you have come here League, introduced by Chairman Inter, in your time and mine, the sale l.iquor Dealers* Association,
■rys” outnumbered the “wets,” also in enthusiasm, today, and listened to both sides of the Goyue,
whole legalized liquor traffic, by millionaires who have gotten their
spoke as follows :
ill showing that there are a large number of citizens question, a id the result was that they I want to congratulate uiy friend which we turn men into drunkards money on ill gotten gains filched
voted against this iniquitous law, as I
blight the whole fuce and fab­ from the pockets ol the pour. This
Eo will vote iu ‘November to keep the county in the am sure the women of Tillamook will Mr. Storey on having made the and
ablest aud kindest speech that can ric of human society, is going down is not a theory, you can therurize
advise
their
husbands
to
do.
|ry” column, as well as vote for state wide prohibi- To show you how much prohibition is be made on the wrong side because Christian civilization ia go­ all you please about “model license
up. (Applause).
laws,” you cannot run a saw mill
In. The speakers were Hon. Sydney Clarke for the gaining in this country, last April 71 of this subject. (Laughter and ap­ ing When
a man goes into a saloon without using logs, nor a gristmill
Lets” and Dr. Wilson for the “drys.” and from what cities in Illinois went wet; twelve of plause).
If this contest were just between and puts down the price of n drink without grain, nor a rock-crusher
them had been dry for two or three
gets no adequate value for the without rocks , and you cannot run
p can gather, quite a number of the “wets” admit that years and they went back ; why? be­ the ability of speakers, 1 would give he
If lie spends it suloons in Tillamook County or
up now. but this is a question of money expended.
Lv came out tlie little end of the horn, and for that cause they found that prohibition was it right
in
the
grocery store he has food on any other county' without using up
and wrong, and feeling thut
a failure and a farce, and did not pro­
his
table
;
if
at
the
dry
goods store boys. To turn sawlogs into lumber
Lson this is liable to be the last time in this election hibit, and was not a cure. In the city there is but one right aide of tins he walks out with u good
suit of and grain into Hour may lie a bus­
cause, 1 know that you will be with
of
Chicago
the
bill
was
re-submitted
to
hen the “wets” and the “drys” will divide time in a a vote because the petition drawn up by me. (Applause).
clothes; if at the carriage painter's, iness. but to turn our scluail and
The one contention of this ad­ his buggy shines in the street; it at church and home boys into drunk­
Lblic debate. There are some, however, amongst the the _
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preachers
75,000 signatures
has been that prohibition the milliner'a, his wife is well dress­ ards is a festering crime thut line
Lets” who think theirside liutup the best argument was thrown oufbecaure Uiese sanefined dress
ed ; and if spent at the butcher’s, lie got to stop! (Applause.)
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1.1 gentlemen, it had been shown, had dues nut prohibit, but I aui not has something to show for it; but
Mr. Storey comes here to repre-
lie tiling is sure, though, most persons who attended : 25,000
-— that
- were absolutely
.... fraudulent.
t .
■ going now tu Maine or to Alabama, lie can spend hie money over the sa­ sent
Greater Oregon Hoitie
passing rapidly, and come to1 or tu Georgia or Tennessee or any­ loon bar for fifty years and has no­ Rule the
le meeting on Sunday had their [minds made up one : the I am
which
tin*
state of Nebraska, and there they where e.se so tar away from home. thing to show for it but a red nose. brought Association,
us
bill under the name
hy or the other. We give below a full report, which ; have local option, and our man Billie I will take Oregon, Portland, Tilla­ (Applause. 1 Taking a protit and ol the Home a Rule
Hill
fur
Cities.
| Bryan is in favor of local option mook and the rest of our towns, Si ving no adequate return is a crime! That bill says that all cities and
Les both sides of tlie controversy :
and not prohibition, and Nebraska has and will ask—since the saloons lere, tor instance, ia i< saloon and corporate towns shall have the ex­
absolutely repudiated prohibition, as have been closed on Sunday, is a butcher-shop und u shoe-shop. clusive power to regulate, control,
majority,
and
yet
even
then
they
woul
Idney Storey’s Address not heed the warning, until recently you
will know if you have kept inform­ , there any man who thinks that any The saloon proposes to get 8 eta. restrict, suppress or prohibit the
more liquor is sold and drunk on
representing the democratic nominee of that state ed by reading the papers.
fe.DNEY STOREY,
Sunday than the other six duys of profit on every 10 eta. worth it sells, liquor traffic within saiil corporate
In
Texas
tliey
had
a
recent
election,
stoo
l
upon
a
platform
that
pledged
it
­
L- Greater Oregon Hume Rule Asso-
the week ? Nobody thinks so. We but the merchant is contented if he limits, and that means that nil of
self to repeal the prohibition law, and and the nominee of the successful party
gets 2 i ts. profit on every li) cent our pi esent restrictive laws, such
Jltioa, introduced by Mayor Coates, re-submit the question to the people. in that state, which is the democratic close our saloons on election day; sale.
1 believe in a square deal, us the law against selling' liquor to
does
anybody
think
that
we
seil
Lke as follows:
The democratic ticket was elected; and party, was elected by over 20,000 ma­ more liquor then than we did the but thia principle is un outrage,— i minora, to girls, selling liquor on
[Fellow Citizens: It affords me great that has been the “prohibition” history jority—or rather he was nominated at day before or the day ufter ? There dealing in ineat mid shoes anil gro­ Sundays and election days, cun all
the Primary, which is equivalent to an
au- of Maine for the last 50 years. »
Basure to see such an intelligent
_
is not a man in Oregon that thinks ceries and the other necessities of be annulled nt one fell stroke if
Let us pass to Alabama. Prohibition election in that state. Ail of which so, but those are the duys—election life at one-tenth the profit of the this amendment should puss, and
Btiee composed of so many lames.
shows
that
the
wave
of
prohibition,
B am here to discuss the question on does not prohibit. If it did, my God,
and Sundays-when we try prohibi­ rum-seller, and I giving credit for every town and city in the State of
(Not that the liquor Oregon would have no restrictive
kich the voters of this Stale will cast the prohibitionists would have a foun- instead of gaining strength, on the tion in Oregon, and it works out in much of that,
contrary
is
receeding.
Why?
Because
i,
perhaps,
altho
it
I intelligent ballot on November hili, dation to stand on,
every town and county in the state. seller gives tiny credit, oh no.) laws against the liquor traffic except
irincipal; __
but ____
there
y friends I come not here to appeal might be wrong in principal;
_ the intelligent business men of Ameri­ Moreover, since our spleudid local License that man to give some- > wluit they could get the average
[y«ur emotions; 1 come not here to is no man or woman in this country ca are beginning to understand, to see, option luw went into effect (and L thing over the bar doing no one city council of our cities to puss,
Lisions or •••*•-
who can
prove *- to you that'in
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com- that prohibition is against liberty ami mn going to confine myself to under heaven uny good.—does no and ii that would not be a combina­
ipeal to your religious passions
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tejudices; 1 come here as an American
A“------- munity of our country or in the world, conscience, and that it is a disastrous Oregon)—since this law went intu one in the home, the wife or child­ tion of Sialom and Gomorrah—and,
Wizen to submit to your
’
= intelligent pi irohibitiori has ever prohibited. Take, failure from every standpoint, and has effect we have closed the saloons in ren, any good,—and allow him to yes, hell, in the Shite of Oregon, I
__________ vital facts
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lets s and figures I say, the State of Alabama. She has wrought economic disaster all over this twenty-one whole counties and in make an 8-cent profit mid have a would like to know what would. All
kisideratiun
In Hie beginning it was
lich will enable you on November
hich
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— tried it. Y-et prohibition has brought country.
tki different precincts in the re­ first pull at the pockets of this Amer­ the laws on the statute books re­
Uns great state of Oregon to decide, in its train in that state increased law- laughed at as a huge joke aud no one maining wet counties. In Home uf ican people—I say it is an outrage stricting the liquor traffic wuilld
paid
any
attention
to
it,
and
then
it
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lessness,
more
drunkenness,
more
|By your uallot as to whether or not you
the counties und precincts tiie law to our Twentieth Century civiliza- nut apply to the cities. It would
The man who runs a saloon annul the Local Option Law as tnr
■-■'¡Want here slate wide prohibition, which fights, and more corruption than your j gained an impetus and it tnarehed oil, is absolutely in force, but in some, tiun.
1
Dot
when
the
people
of
America
begun
imagination
can
scare
up,
—
so
much
so
^Hruliiuits the sale aoil manufacture ui
notably in Tillamook,it is not unwell does nobody any good, and he gets us the cities uie concerned. Take
Hlpirituous liquors within tlie stale ui that recently Governor O’Neil has been i to realize the ruinous and disaatruos enforced j but even where it is not an abnormal profit, and he insists Ynmhill County. Four-fifths of flic
^Kregon, or wnether you prefer to re- nominated by a democratic primary, effects which prohibition wrought, they enforced, there is a bottle and a on spot cash transactions,- he docs taxpayers and tour-fifths of the as­
as you are unuer tlie local option which means an election, and tint got together, and the business men of keg occasionally sold where you not run a credit system, but these sessment is outside of the corporate
■kws of your State, or whether you Governor is pledged to repeal all the uf America are getting together for would have liad live or six or seven other men have to give credits, mid limits of cities. If thia bill passed,
^Ejn.-ii prefer, as 1 shall point out tu you, prohibition laws that have been enact­ the purpose of solving this problem be­ saloons running wide o|>en all the nine-tenths of all the had debts that lour-fifths of the voters would be
HBjo have home rule anil self government, ed, if elected in Alabama. Berming- cause tney know the saloon men cannot time under the other system, and come to the honest merchant deal­ disfranchised so fur iis the rmn
Hhvmch will give to each town and inu- hain has been a cess pool of crime; the solve it, the prohibitionists cannot one place selling liquor secretly, ing in the necessary things of lite, traffic is concerned ; like Milwaukee
^fcleipality the right to prescribe its own public schools have been closed ; the solve it, and the common sense people aud 1 don't knuw where to find it come to him because the men who used to be on the gambling question
treasury has been bankrupt; she has uf America are getting together for and you don't, but they point to Hrs buying their clothing and meat —get up a hole ol honor and breed
^■unduct.
■ Now my friends, 1 ilo not belong to had to pay police and fire denurfnent the purpose of solving this problem as that asifit were worse luun havinga mid shoes are patronizing the sa­ four-filths of the crime and sliumi:
Bt.i .ii class ot Americans that says : 3e- in city sciMpts, and even their local in toe states of Maine, Alabama, Geor­ hull duien saloons turning yuur loon, spending liis money for mid misery, and make the honest
^Bause you differ from me you ure not banks wouLl not cash them. M .bile gia, etc., and as they are going to do boys and girls into drunkards and something which does his lumily men and women outside the city pay
lor the deviltry that goes on in the
Ksmitled to a free expression of yuur has had to close a great portion of her in the state ot Oregon on Nov. 8. worse, arid dragging them dowu, no good.
Anothir thing, when in Smita cities. Towns are a part ot their
Bi.-#-i or of your opinions. Now, tuere schools. Alabama confronts a deficit Why should the people of this state down toGudoniy knows were. T here
want
to
destroy
all
these
helpful
in
­
Mto a school mat says tiiat the Prumui- in her state treasury, and is u vible tu
ia not tile hundredth part of Hie Monica, we l ad up the question ot counties counties a purt of their
^■ioi.ist—the rank and, tile 01 the whole float bonds in the financial markets, dustries why should they want to de­ liquor now sold in yuur cuupty suloons or none. A man running states ; you cannot separate them;
stroy
the
industries
created
and
repre
­
the biggest store in the towu s lid they go up or down together. Port­
^Kusmess are a lot of fanatics. 1 du not and the jieqple are so tired and disgust­
by the people of free America? that there would lie under the he was against us because the land is Hie metropolis ol our state:
^Ktand in that catagory. 1 say that the ed with prohibition that they have sented
" Mode). License Law" system
Well
now,
gentlemen,
1
want
to
tell
grass would grow in the streets if the farmers helped make I'ortlunil
Hbrombiliuii element of this country, of elected O Neill, and are going to repeal you, my friends, that in all Lius agita­ which you hear about.
they closed the saloons. 1 said: what it is ; they send their produce
Htbis great United Slates, is composed, the prohibition law, because they do
My
friends,
the
»tkte
of
Oregon
Ktiie majority of them, of lhe best eje- not prohibit, and they are going to tion (1 have got to just gallop over was founded by inisuionarieH ot the "Mr. ¡Brown, you know i am to nml money there; and every county
Knent of our citizenship, both men and adopt the Model License Law, which is this tor want uf time) there is surely Cross wheu there wen- only ulsmt speak on temperance, mid 1 know has its metropolis, mid they get to­
in the woodpile and I
you will help.” He said: “I am gether mid iiinke the criminal laws
■Women, (applause) l'ney are striving, the only cure for the saloon and drunk­ a will nigger
snow him to you.
He is (kA) people in till J the Oregon on the other aide.” 1 told him 1 of the slate,which me Io la* executed
■«nd have been for years past, co solve enness
country, including what is now
behind
all
thiH
political
|a problem in our economics. They They sayAtlanta is a prohibition city. question, the most gigantic political Oregon, Washington, Montana und intended to make the speech any­ in town mid couutiy places alike.
Ehave tried it for the past 50 years, and Last year they had 200 arrests foa question that has ever presented itself Idaho; they got together and way and there were three things 1 You sec the point, mid yon will lu-lp
■the remedy, as 1 shall proceed to prove drunkenness. Take a city like Denver to the minds of the American people. adopted prohibition, and we have wanted tu know, how mi. h lias its, gentlemen, tn snow under that
■to VoU, does not cure, and that is the in the state of Colorado, which is a li­ Now, the rank and file of the prohibi­ copied their old amendment word your business lost in the past three bill which is lirougnt to give ruin
■ teason that 1 am arrayed against the cense city, and with 225,000 population tion party and the good men and women for word, for the new amendment years by bad debts; how many rule in all of our cities.
people on the list, and how many
Another tiling; We know that pro­
■ subject of Prohibition. There is noth- as against Atlanta with 125,000, tliey uf tins country (some even in the pulpits on wliicn we vote thia year.
■ ing so disgusting tu the sight of man had only 200!) arrested for drunkenness of churches) tnat are preaching pru-
In Oregon we have more colleges were drinkers? The next morning hibition lines prohibit because we
■ ano God as a drunkaid,a mural weakling in all Denver. Talk about your whis­ hibiliton are preaching it —why t Not in pro|M>ition to our population I found that he hail lost in three try it every Sunday In I'ortlmid.
■ who uebases and debauches his being key and beer and “near beer,” (and because they want to obtain the best than uny other state in the years through unpaid lulls and bad W hen San Francisco was in her
$11NII, by 53 different people great trouble and had enough of her
K Bad disgraces himself, and has not the I Hie only distinction between
hear for the human race, but they are sim­ American Union—this land of debts
“And," lie said, “one ot them own without manufacturing them
■ moral courage to know a thing is made beer” and the real beer is aim]
mply in ply little tools in the hands of the schools and churches und humes. didn't
drink a drop." (Laughter through the saloons, the mayor of
[ fur use and not for aouse.-wrij brings the label) yet these are
coi inilitions must powerful temperance organization We couM build up here «conse­
applause.) I wanted to know that city closed the saloons, and for
■ disgrace upon hnnself and his family. that prevail in Atlanta,
the whis­ ever instituted in tins country, and be- quently a high moral civilization if anil
who
it
was,
mid he told me it was six weeks Hint city went on, some
I Be is lower than a coward—He is a key bill of Atlanta per week averages hiisf all this movement is the National it were not tor a frowning fortress
I viiiian. But while I agree with you on a quarter million dollars, and that is Ant-Saloon League of America. Let of perdition hring into our lines all a poor widow on the outside of the days without a single arrest, and it
■ that, 1 say that Prohibition is not the substantially the improvements and ex- me tell you of this organization and the time, undoing the work ot our town who took in washings for a was the best government they ever
aick anil
und owed hud or ever knew tight ufter the
feure for that man, and Prohibition is tentiona made by the express com­ what, under the laws of our country homes, schools und churches, and living, and she got sick
I nut the cure for the intemperance and panies in order to provide faciliti-xi for they seek. What is their buisness ? dragging duwn the four-corner- him »10, and at that time «lie was earthquake. (Applause). The Ore­
her : gonian some time ago wrote up in u
washings
because
| lawlessness that follows in the wake of the receiving of whiskey that comes Simply to preach this doctrine fur the posts ut our civilizstion —business doing
| pruhibition.
Subbath
observance, husband live years before was : Sunday issue seven of the most
from other states.
In Savannah, purpose of acquiring political power. integrity,
Now, 1 shall rapidly review with you Georgia the saloons are run wide open Now, let me tell you, when Judge Lan­ puriety in the home lite, und killed in a drunken brawl. I said prosperous cities of Oregon,- the
I the history of prohibition in America, I in defiance of law. Go to Memphis in dis of Chicago about a year or two ago tem|>erance in the habits of the to thio merchant: “You have lost cities thut had the greatest niimlier
I because time does not permit me to I Tennessee, and you will find there at fined the Standard Oil Go. people tweu- l»eople. There is the saloon element in three years <1170 by 54 different of real estate transfers, building
r dwell lengthily upon it. 1 had intended I any day, in this prohibition state, the ty-nine million dollars, the Standard in Portland standing at its center; people, everyone of whom were |H-riiuta, largest postal receipts, in
the Inir proportion to their population, mid
I to appear upon this platform for lhe saloons are wide open and run in de­ oil people laughed at the idea, but let we have the gambling mania spending their money over Hit
I purpose of making an argument upon fiance of law and decency. Why? Be­ me tell you, shortly thereafter the lieing bred, Sabbath desecration, fur that which satistieth not, and the largest si hool attendance ; these
dear at any price, and items tliey judged by, und these are
this question that woukl have taken cause you cannot enforce a pruhibition newspapers and magazines uf this impurity in the social life and hosts would be you
of the necessities of the seven most |>rou|M*rous: Pendle­
' fully two hours to encompass, but at law in this country because it is country began to write about the Stan­ of saloons, sll upheld by the saloon robbing
life, and you think those fellows ton. Eugene, Albany, Grunts Pass,
the suggestion of the learned and dis­ against healthy public sentiment, and dard Oil octopus and all utners that element, and have drunkards aud are
your business do you?" Ashland, Newberg mid Mi Minnvill*
tinguished gentleman with whom I you cannot enforce a law in this nation have been feeding upon the blood of drunkenness everywhere; but we are And helping
lir woke tip at last to the fat t —seven dry cities every one of them.
have the honor tu ap|iear on this plat­ against the sentiment of the people, tne American people for the last quar­ coming to a contest on November that Hie
liquor traffic is a leech (Applause). That shows whether
form (Clarence True Wilson) we have because the people are sovreipn, any ter of a century, and these people were Sth with this great evil.
upon every business industry in pruhibition has bruliglit pro»|H*rity
1 want to make one thing clear our
agreed that the two meetings shall be more than you can enforce in New very much disturbed, and it didn’t take
country. If you should close U> Oregon or not.
Home may say:
c imbined into one, and I Was unly too Jersey what would be blasphemy in them lung to find out that the Amen- here this aiternoon: The forhier every
ualism in Portland Mondiiv Why don’t we try the moral suasion?
glad of the opportunity* afforded me of Chicago or in Turkey or in some other can peuple are a people that have got nfs-aker referred to Hie liquor traffic morning,
there
wouldn't
I
m * a beef
In Chicago tliey
appearing before those who possibly place. You cannot enforce laws which tu ride a hobby, got tu have auma iam as a business. I want tu say to steak left in the city by next Satur­ I will tell you.
un insane asylum I don’t
might be of a contrary opinion.
are against public sentiment, I say, to feeil upon, some ism to teed upon ' you what Roosevelt said to tlie day night. If you were to pour have
know
whether
Mr,
Muieyever
Now my fellow citizens, 1 want to and 1 want to tell you, to show you, and Bumeone said, “1 have got it”! lieople ol New York when he was out all Hie money which Portland of this but in Hie equipment heard
He said: spends over its saloon counters two tuba ....
tell you that prohibition in America I the sentiment that exists against pro­ and prohibition is that ism, and the re­ Police Cuinmiaaioner.
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- ure
filled . with
Water, mid
has been a total failure. Take the hibitive legislation in this country. sult is that Mr. John D. Rockefeller “Your trade is not like any other every year, and turn such money one
a spicket ÍN running,
If
State of Maine. Here is a state that In North Carolina at a recent elec­ (and it has never been denied and can business, and it cannot tie treated into the channels of honest trade • patient
is
» e I enough to
Your auch a wave business pros|»erity
h is had prohibition since I860. In that I tion, the people voted ami elected a be proven) contributed five hundred like any other business.
tell bun to bail M
i late law leasness and drunkenness ami i ticket; the nominees w«e all anti-pro­ thousand dollars for the purpose of traffic tends to breed lawlessness would come to that city as toe do it they
If tie stands there amt
crime have been ranqmnt for all these ; hibitionists. The same can be said of diverting their mind from tne real in the population at large and business men have never dreamed out.
bails they put him back, but if he
years, and the good people have been i the state of Michigan, the same can be ■Mioea; and if they, our prohibition anarchy among the salpon-keepera cL The greatest waste ic money has
sense enough to turn off the
trying tu strike off and ward off prohi-, said of many other states, all of which friends, achieve political power, you themselves ; you have got to obey squandered foi that which satiafi spirket
they think he la sultii iently
bition during all these years, but tney shows that the people of thia country will find them where ? In the cellar. the law.” lint the liquor traffic, etn not, and does no one any gmsl. recovered
Io go back io his home.
have been unable to do so b.TMUxe the ' are absolutely uppisM*d to prohibitory What are they driving at ? To acquire from Hie runmngot the bootlegging over the bar rooms of the country When a man
tells me it is my Imai-
rrbid party of that state was wedded legislation because it does not prohibit. political power in the state of Oregon ? establishment and “blind pigs’' to
Our friend Storey ways that pro­ iicus tu aeuil i hardy Io the drunk­
to the pruhibition idea, and together
1 want to tel! you ala>ut my own No. They are after National power, the saloon and distillery, ia not a hibition does not prohibit. There ard's
wife und clothing to the child­
with other good measures they com-1 state. In 1908 in Louisiana we had that ia what they are after, and instead business at all, and it has no right. is no one wlm dares stand up in ren, shall I let the apickrt run thut
tuned, and the result was that the good, puasibly the most disgusting condition of going by the byways, and going tu to claim any immunity as a bust - this country, where the people rule is lurnishiiig these < oiiditionu lus­
inteiligeat people of that state were i that ever prevailed in this country. the great industrial centers of America ncss lx-t me call your attention sod the laws are the expression ol ter Ilian 1 can relieve them? Ii I
unable to throw off prohibition. No' The saloons were ran wide open, not if they are so much concerned and en­ to three things: AU human ac- ■ the jwople's thoughts, and where iliil, who would be the Its .11 My
•nan will deny but that liquor has been only in New Orleans, but every town gaged in Hie holy cause of saving peo­ tivlties are divided into three claa- i we elect our rulers, and say
Your pliilosoph) ot prayer mid preach­
____ regulate our business
wild in the state of Maine ad libitum, ana village in the state; gambling was ple from crime and de'wwheries, why ses, namely, business, charity, ' lawa cannot
ing is like the little girl und lhe song
crone,
the«
three
and
no
more.
|
fur all these years. As you got off the
don’t they go to tlm« great iraiuetnal
lards that came to her window to
train at the railway station, you would '
renters of our country where men and
What is business?Sellingeomuch and anarchists that do that. Here eat, ami her brother set tra;ai to
meet the little boy or little girl who.
women ar»i good boys and good girie commodity for so much profit We the voice of the people ia the vo« e catch them. Mlie saul to her mother,
would lead you to a kitchen bar-room'
_ .. V.*_
forcing prohibition “Please don’t let Willie catch any
are employe!) at starvation wages, will ur < ertsin material costa -i 2 . Go«!
The clerk at the hotel, as you register­
which leads them to crime i d an and cents atl<l the manufacturing price u,Min no onr Z We are putting it to more of them He pulls cut their
ed, would wink Ma eye, and tell you if
is
J
cents
and
I
sell
it
for
8
cents
,
*
--
shame? Why don t they go there and
Hie majority, and if the majority tamhers und torments llirin and they
y >u needed anything, all you would
reach out and Mft them op? Oh no, 5 cents goes for stock and 3 cents aaya that the liquor traffic ia evlf soon die.” I he inotlier didn't want
have to do would be tu go to room 23. ’
I have the profit, the and only evil, that voice ia going to have another round with her
that is to hard . the other is eaey. that for pront.
Ur, take the man oo the street with
ia the reason. and 1 tell you they ere nixnufacturer has his |>ay and you to tie otieyeil, and when the liquor vtuld, so she said, "Yoti go mid at­
the walking cane. 1 hat cane was hol­
engaged in getting political power haxe the goods to show lor it; that traffic sends out s man to ray tual tend to your play things, ami if you
low, and inside was spirituous liquor;;
They nave launch«! this craaade, and ui buaiMus.
prohibition does not prohibit, w ml worry alsiul tlie little birds just u»k
and if y*sa went to a min s drswing
say : “We want state wide prohibition’'
Suppose that you are poor and do they mean? They mean to any: Jesus to take care ot them. * And
m*>m evm, there was an si (ram un the,
ano if they get tnat (which they never you need it, and 1 am charitable "We will not obey the law
and -ue liltte girl still saw trie trap set
t ible. and all be bad to do was fo touch
wilt) they will say : “We want Natur­ and give it toyota,—tsthat business* when any group of men say "We tor mure turds, und she tore the trap
the spring, and there s|<ung forth the
al prohiteteoa". Why ? Beeaama they No, it is charity , it is tne same com- will not obey the American law,” away J and
threw it over, ami
want to destroy all the induatnee ia modify without any profit, but bus it ia time the American i<r qile when she knelt down to pray she
our country that repraaant three btllioa mess is «> uiuch commodity with a aroae in Hie majesty of their man said, “Dear Jesus, please (lull I let
dollars of property, the« industries reasonable profit Hut crime is the hood and said “You will obey our W illie cati li any more ol those dear
that put three billion dollars into the contrivance to get the profit without laws or get out of thia country.“ little song birds, and, Lord, I know
hands of the American peopte. to be giving the commodity. Take gam (Prolonged applause 1 They will you won’t, anyway, la-cause I have
sad for the »ecaasariea of lite. They pliag.
A man goes into a place leave betimd them the words of the smashed the trap " I tell you, my
uuM wipe w( the esaermmti
sad expects to get sowsthmg lor | met
■rtenda, Luapuy
v.iHt mors laitu
4 «
put into ttea
notiuag. or else ne gets nothing tor
"True prtriots are we, have Armly and preach with mure leriur ami
aed the |
some thing
II he grta some thing
stood .
woik with nunc liiqw ami seal lor
miiltea w
lor nothing he »a s tine! sad if he
We leave thia country tor this young Hirn and women and mural
an the larue of these get: .oothiag lor something ba to a
czmntry’s good.”
I
E “WETS” AND “DRYS”
ve a Lively Discussion in
the Old Town.