Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-12-11
But They Always Present a Solid
United Front.

A breath of new life was breathed
into the long defunct Anti-Saloon or
ganization in this city Monday night.
The invigorating, health-giving atmos-
phere came from Cleveland and was
uncorked and administered to the leth.
arglc form of the local association
by DR.. Louis Albert Banks, who has
the reputation of giving large doses of
reform medicine to larger patients
than Akron.
DR.. Banks felt the pulse of the local
patient at the First Universalist church
and the small audience present was
pleased with his diagnosis of the case.
After long and varied experience
with the liquor traffic and other moral
disorders, Dr.. Banks is able to see at
glance any pathognomonic symp.
tom and his remedy for the disease
which produces 1t is always prescribed
In straightforward, forcible language.
AS IA temperance lecturer DR.. Banks
is n success. He strikes straight from
the shoulder and his sentences carry
weight and force.
He makes no statistical statements,
Involving u long string Of dry figures,
which, at best, are soon forgotten. He
Is fluent eloquent speaker and back
of that is a strong man whose heart
and soul are set against the sale and
use of intoxicants.
DR.. Banks knows the value of good
story and he has a large reserve fund
at his command. For every argument
he puts forth, he has story to clinch
1t. The audience catches the applica-
tion and the impression is lasting. In
his address Monday night he stated
that he was not one of the original
workers in the Anti-Saloon movement,
| yet 1t Is In harmony with his creed
in the temperance question. He said
agitation should he the watchword
and the Anti-Saloon League was the
agitator. 1t had dried up 80 towns In
Ohio in the last year. He said the best
thing to do, whether Democrat or Re
publican, Populist or Prohibitionlst,
was to join the crusade against the
saloon element.
"The Anti-Saloon League Is omni.
partisan" declared DR.. Banks, "and
1t will lead to the death blow of the
liquor traffic"
DR.. Ira A. Priest president Of Buch.
tel College, presided at the meeting
After the half hundred pastors Of the
many of whom were pastors Of the
various churches In the city, had sung
"Al Hail the Power of Jesus Name"
Rev. @. II Keller made prayer.
In introducing the speaker, Or
Priest said that DIR, Banks was the
man who has been shaking Cleveland
from end to end. Or. Banks was greet
ed with applause and his remarks wer,
frequently interrupted with cheers,
Tho speaker began by saying tn,
saloons at present were Just as meal
and just as devllsh as they have ever
been He said that while other things
come and go, the saloon remains tn,
foe of all things we love and cherish
lie stated that In all OF the man,
different church denominations thcr,
could not he found any endorsement o
the liquor traffic, He declared that tn,
number of people interested in tn,
manufacture and sale of intoxicant
constituted n contemplate minority
as compared with the number Of Chris
tian men over 21 years of age,
Then why do they hold the whip
J hand over us?" inquired DR., Banks
Answering his own question, he said
1T is because the liquor men vote a