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low prlatea to prey oa oar commerce. I think
Ibis coaacil Slight well adopt at, rasotatfom, and I-
sggest H:
RESOLVED: That ao Oariistiaa aatioa
saoaid allow its flag to protect violations
of lb prfttio& law of aay other laad.
All ycm bare to do is to 11 your people, aad
taey will Sad some way of takies tie British
Has; off the hoasea aad from over the people who
there plaa to iavade oar laads aad horaofi with,
Oils eaeray of the aaraaa rae.
Oar nation shoald so as far as it can, aad
therefore, X am propcrclag that oar coagreas with
draw AmerScaa citfcsxaship from any man who
3505s oa aay other soil, aad asas the lias; of aa
otaer aattoa Ho jwrotaet aim while fee coaspires
aaia$ the laws of tae Hailed States.
We say that ao ama shall oosae into this coaa
tfiy,, aader or immigration law. who has vJo
1SI the laws of Oft Sauad from which be comes;
if w 'saift oat criatiaals who have violated tae
layers off wtbor lands, way shoald we show par
tiality to aa American who goes oat abroad in
tirdar to violate tae laws of ais owa coaatxy?
We are not solas to tarn back. Iff anybody
tjils 76a' that Sals nation is lmraias back, he
ke& mod know what as solas oa. Lat xas sire
y&& a ffew Tacts. . "New, York 4s oar largest stale.
New York lasS, year elected a governor by popu
lar vote, pledgied to the eafforceaaeat of tae law.
Id; elected a. legislator pledged to the enforce
meat' of tae law. aad since last November New
York has passed a law that pats tae Empire
SSaHe tack of the Volstead Law. Aad Penasyl
T3Lafia? it So the" second ia sise. Pennsylvania
aomia&ted said, elected its present governor oa a
platform demaadSag the ratification of prohibi
tioa rlerc3ai'k5ia by popular vote; aad its legis
lature bars Tr&beatly iacreasad the stringency of
the" laws eaSorclag; prohibition. What about tae
iMrd state, Hliaeiis? Illinois, with, the second
city ia the United States, bas a law today as
strict as the Volstead law, for the enforcing of
prohibition. What about the fourth state Ohio?
"Well, lay friends, Ohio gives as the best Mus
tatSoa w have of the growth ia prohibition senti
in'eaL " rhey hare had sii! popular elections in Ohio
6a this sabject, besiaaiag ia 1914. I ask you
Tisitors to bear this ia mind. In 1914, the drys
sahasStted state prohibition ia Ohio, aad the wets
carried the state by S -4,000. The next year the
drys submitted it again, aad the wets carried the
s&ate by S4.ffl. Then the drys waited two years,
aad ia 1917, they submitted prohibition the
third time, aad the wets carried it by 2,068.
There were tare elections asked by the drys and
won hy the wets, bat hy decreasing; majorities
S-fi,m. 54,, 2,. Aad then ia 191S, the
iSrys sabaaitted it the ffoarth time, and drys won
by 25,fH -majority. Bat just about this time
tia war ended, and the wets demanded another
tectaoa, so that the 'soldiers could rote. Anyone
who weal into the stat woald have supposed
IBatat all the soldiers came home for was to Tote
to bria'g the saloon back. All orer the state
the wets were talking about the soldiers eager
Biess tor a chance to Tot oa this subject. And
so they had amother election in 1919; aad after
"the boys" sot home and had a chance to rote,
prohibition carried by 4O,0 instead of 25-,D0.
Ba-wias' retained prohibition by 40,800, the drys
SEcnred am enforcement law, and the wets in
sisted that there should be still another
Tottefamd ander the referendum they had a right
to it. So Easst fall, the last election we hare had,
tMey Toted dry by 29,0& majority in Ohio.
$5w tthas is the record; Three elections whoa
tSae waits woa by decreastnir majorities; three
eSedtio&s when the drys won by increastag ma
jorities. Bat for fear somebody may tell yoa
after I am -gone why they had 2 , the last
fine,"! will tell yoa now. Ta woaa voted the
last time. Bat what coasolatSoa is thai to a wet9
Thssy aire going to vote aftraaffcEa.
3Da Michigaa, the state wat dby &y ?, ma
jority; if.-went dry fa 1916 xad mm me wets,
after ar coiaple off years, daaHsaiet aa electloa to
ferias wise -aatd beer back. Saaae of yoa mav
isaasaae that wiae aad feeesr are stroaier than
whisky. I waatto say t yoa tthat, so far as I
have been able" to"diBtvr. the ia-jDashioaed
sanlooa. with a saablins hoase aiore aad a dis
cBPgerly noese aear. is more pofwlar ia this coaa
try than wiae aad beer aloae. Wtoener? v
hate had a chaaoe to teat it, the wiae aad beer
liropsltioa has act heea as stroag as the oM
saloon itself. This was the ease ia MicafeRn. T&
drys had carried St by Si, fog- oum& &!
Mbatioa, aad then wiae aad bear were defeat
fey over 2,; a&r ose" coaarj in MicMa
voted to Mt-wiae aa& bear come beck. AaymS
who tajDaks'the Haor'traSc can fc annbf wv
with thet women T&tias, when we drorl itoat
with oaly the men voting, does not know much
aboat politics ia this country.
Bat to show you my friends, that the woman
vote Is not the only reason for the rejection of
. wiae aad bear, let me call your attention to Colo
rado. When Colorado went dry.in 1914, Denver
voted 1.0 against state prohibition; after
they had it a year, the wets sabmitted an amend
ment for beer alone, and Denver, after one year's
experience under total prohibition, voted 14.000
against beer coming back into the state of Colo
rado. The women voted both times.
No, there is goiag to be no invitation to wine
aad beer to come back; for twenty-five years the
brewery has been a more corrupting influence
in this country even than the distillery. There
was never aay thought of separating beer from
whisky until prohibition was adopted and then,
as an afterthought, they said, "It you will just
separate beer from whisky; beer can come back."
No, my friends, the brewery and distillery have
been partners in crime all these' years. They
have beea co-conspirators against everything
high and holy, and now, as they approach the
end of their criminal careers, it would be cruel
to separate these boon companions; they must
die together and be buried in the same grave.
I call attention to another fact. New Jersey
had a governor, Edwards, "a Democrat, who was
wet, soaking wet, and he was so proud of what
he did in keeping New Jersey from endorsing
national prohibition, that he became a candidate
before the Democratic National Convention a
year ago. When I shut my eyes I can now see
his banner on the gallery, "Gdvernor Edwards,
of New Jersey, Emancipator." But he did not
emancipate. And last fall his state went 300,000
against his party and for the party pledged to
enforcement. The new legisaltnre passed an en
forcement law over his veto, and New Jersey now
stands back of the federal government in the
enforcement of prohibition. The last I heard ot
Edwards, he was putting a bottle of whisky in
the cornerstone of a bank. Visitors, it means
something when a man like Edwards has to hide
his whisky in a cornerstone.
Now, ray friends, I have tried briefly to give
you something of the history of this fight. I had
no expectation, as I said, of seeing these things
come in my lifetime. But now I am so sanguine
that although I am sixty-one I expect to live to
see the day when there will not be an open
saloon under the flag of any civilized nation in
the world. Look at whatjs going on about-us.
Am I correctly informed when I say that in Scot
land they were never able to vote directly on this
subject until last fall? Is that true? (A voice
"Yes.") Last fall, at the first election, nearly
a third of the votes cast in Scotland were for
prohibition. Think of it, my friends! Where
in this country did we do so well when we began?
Think of Scotland with one-third voting for pro
hibition on the first trial that they had there?
I read only a few days ago a publication by the
committee that has prohibition in charge in
Great Britain, and what was it? They gave the
facts to show that Great Britain is spending two
billions and a half a year on intoxicating liquor
and suggested that Great Britain could soon pay
all she owes if she spent her money in paying her
debts, instead of intoxicating her people Our
nation was spending two and half billions 'or
intoxicants ten years ago. A few weeks a ago
f2311 GenaaQy sae out figures to show
that the amount spent in Germany on intoxicat
ing liquor is one-third as much as she spends
on the indemnities that grew out of the war
The world will soon understand that the people
cannot afford to squander their money on in
toxicating liquor. More than that, we will give
l JT p? rld as will shake
the strongholds of John Barleycorn. The Ex
ample of this nation will be an unanswerable
argument in favor of thcabolition of the saloon
The wiping out of liquor in a community in
creases the number of those who can go to
school. When this is understood, what nation
of alcohol? When your teachers come over here
SS ?? on to Hi couVtryT the?
will go back and make their appeal to the in
tellectuals ot all lands. When yur masted Si
Msdustry come and see our men goingtoWJ
from their work without Jthe evidences of intoxi
cataon and using their incomes to? the bene
fit of their families and for the uplifL- of
ttuar class, they win go back home and sayf A
dnnken Europe cannot compete with a sobet
tSB5.,re m-u!t,sooer order to compete"
When your ministers come over hero and SU
what our churches have done they will go back
The physicians have recently dkrovrnKi
remedy for typhoid fever. Twtty-t?re?y
ago. in oar Utile war with Spain hundredTdS
typhoid fever, although our amy ontytmouted
to about 200,000. Twenty-seven member .
my regiment died of typhoid fever in that hrf
war. Bat now we have a remedy, and it i.
complete that, in the late war, of "early a nn
lion men who reached the battle Ime in Fran
not one American soldier died of typhoid fcY
and only 125 out of four million called totT
"colors. Is it not a wonderful remedy' Tnffi
abstinence is like that remedy. That remertv
gives immunity from disease; total abstinent
gives immunity from the evils of alcohol-nn
total abstainer ever becomes a drunkard.
But we have found another remedy in the Ian
few years the remedy for yellow fever ThS
found that the mosauito carried the germ of tho
disease, and then they destroyed the breedine
place of the'mosquito and made the tropics hab t
able. This enabled our country to add tie
Panama Canal to its great achievements we
could nevpr have done it without that remedy
We now have a remedy for alcohol that is like
the remedy for yellow fever. We found that it
was the saloon that carried the germ of al
coholism, and prohibition destroys the breeding
place of the germ. The woria will be saved by
total abstinence and prohibition.
There is only one thing that, to my mind, com
pares, with. prohibition as a world benefit, and
that is the abolition of war. Here are twin ene
mies of the home; alcohol brings the husband
the father and the. son down to a drunkard's
grave, and war sacrifices the husband, father and
son on the altar of Mars. In proportion as the
governments become representative;in proportion
as the people speak through them, it becomes
important that sober people shall control the
the governments. 1 would combine these too
great reforms and .back df both I would put the
Christian church: It will save mankind from
the curse df alcohol and from the3 ruinous waste
of war. Back of both: reforms we have the au
thority of the Book ol Books,
I thank you for your atttrntioriv
MAN SHOUI,T HAVE ALSm HE EARNS
Mr. Bryan is of the opinion that a-man should
have all he earns, but no more, since an excess
necessarily deprives some other person of his
3ust earnings. He fally Relieves that men often
earn as much as five 'huiidredmillion dollars in
a life time, and he cites as proofths efforts of
Lincoln and our great men of-science and inven
tion. But Mr. Bryan further states that these
men who have honestly and honorably earned
five hundred million dollars each, have been so
busily engaged in earning that they have not had
time to collect it. On the other hand, he slates
that those who have collected five hundred mil
lion dollars each have been so busily engaged
in collecting that they have not had. tfme to earn
what they have collected! . This jlittle statement
from Mr. Bryan will bear many readings. Al
tamont, 111., 2ews.
THANK GOD FOR PRESIDENT HARDING'S
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE
Rey. Dr. Charles S. Stevens of the First Pres
byterian church, Chicago, in his sermon Sunday,
June, 12th, 1-921, praised President Harding for
-a ?y observaace platform. Tie preacher
5? - Presidet Harding by his refusal to join
ais golf cabinet on the links. on Sundays has set
S fP6 the American people to follow.
ie has shown that he remembers the Sabbath
day to keep it holy." Ex.
THE STATE OIJ MINI s (
If you think you are beaten, you are. ". -.'
If you think that you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win, but think that you can't
It s almost a "cinch" yoa won't. ,
If you think youll lose, youVe lost;, 1
For out. in the world, you find, v -Success
begins with a fellow's wUU-
.Its all m the state of lolndcife'
Hj many a race is lost iJ j
Ere even a step is run, - - ,
And many a coward fails -? '.-.
-ThTrfS h,f work,s Stm, ihffji'
nS T1S aud your fls "willgroK. -inJu
Knall you'U falUoehind.
t. you can you wilfcr- '
It s ail in the state of mind. .. .
If you think you are outclassed yoSTare;
ou ve got to be sure of yourself, bef bra
t 7?u J1 eTCJr wln a Prize. ' l
SS atUes don't always go -' "
- To the stronger or faster man, ' '
I3ut soon or late the man who wins
Is the fellow who thinks he can: a
, ' AutliortJnknowfl.
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