The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-11-01
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER l, 1894
PROHIBITION.
Young Mr.. HansCom Fires Hot Shot
Into Its Enemies.

PRU0IbI lVN.
Young Mr.. Hanscom Fires Hot Shot
Into Its Enemies.
Rev. Geo. L. Hanscom, of New
Hampden, Iowa, fred hot shot into
the enemies of prohibition for an hour
and half, at the Methodist church,
last Sunday evening. The young man
gave no quarter. He is radical, an
extremist regular Iowa prohibition
striker.
He contended that it was not only
moral, financial and social issue, but
that temperance was also a part Of
the gospel. He thought that it should
interest every man and woman as it
was the only way to do away with the
saloon, which he declared to be the
vilest curse which has ever blotted the
earth. "The business degrades all
those who come into contact with il"
he said. ION both sides of the bar it
works. It is the polluted parent of a
vast lot of evil. It is incapable of de-
fense."
The young man here took it from a
financial standpoint. He said that the
liquor traffic created no wealth, but
created destruction. It tears down,
but does not build up. Spongelike it
soaks up, but does not give down.
Like the highwayman and pickpocket
it takes but gives nothing in return.
If the men who patronized the saloon
could by voluntary contributions, sup
port every brewer and distiller in the
land in ease and comfort, he would be
better off. If the money expended for
it would be turned into religious chan
nels we would hear far less about hard
times than we are hearing to-day.
Mr.. Hanscom pointed to the fact
that business houses and railroad COM
panies were rapidly requiring total alb
stainers to fill their important stations
as confirmation of his statement that
the millennium was near at hand. He
said that the loss of producing power
occasioned by strong drink was from
eight to twelve per cent. Saloon-keep-
ers were even calling for total abstain
ers for bartenders. "Prohibition fair
ly we'll enforced would be doing a
grand thing for humanity" he said.
cit would start up the wheels of manu-
factories, the saws of numbering mills,
the cotton machines, and instead of
running on half time, as they are do
ing now they would be obliged to run
day and night, and then enlarge their
capacity, in order to meet the demand.
Prohibition means financial prosperity
in it's largest sense"
From the moral standpoint he
thought prohibition was needed for
the prevention of crime-of murder,
robbery and insanity. During 1893
he said that $4,000 men and women
were slaughtered by drink-one every
seven mintes. It was needed for the
protection of the home, where drink
destroyed the happiness of the wife,
snatched food from the children, and
robs our industrial and educational
institutions. It clogs the wheels of in
dustry, puts out the fire of factories,
stops work at the mines, indirectly
created labor troubles, and caused
endless suffering after strike was in
augurated. Prohibition was needed
for the protection of the ballot, where
the saloon was all powerful.
To the people who say that prohibi-
ton does not prohibit Mr.. Hanscom
hurled back the statement that "regu-
lation does not regulate"
Mr.. Hanscom closed his remarks by
saying that in Iowa where there was
prohibition once, and where now there
was limited license, so pernicious has
the latter become that he expected to
see constitutional prohibition voted at
the election a year hence. He char
acterized the present law there as the
biggest farce ever seen in the State
In closing he appealed for votes fol
prohibition principles.
A good Mason & Hamlin organ TO,
sale at a bargain.
2t. Mrs. w. B. KING.
Cottonwood seedlings at IS cents
per thousand, if taken this fall.