Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1903-11-14
A. c. RANKIN TALKS
DELIVERS TWO ELOQUENT AD-
DRESSES ON TEMPERANCE.
THE STATE MARSHAL MOVEMENT
Waterloo Ministerial Association, w.
C. T. w., and Anti-ssloon League
Unite and Begin Fisht-Novemher
20 Temperance Day in ottun'wa.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
An audience of nearly one thousand
people was present in the opera house
at Waterloo recently to listen to Hon.
A. C. Rankin. the monlder ora
tor, who has been heard in this city
several times, deliver an address on
THE Essential Elements of Stall
wart Character" The Minister
ial association, the w. c. I. u, and
the Anti-Saloon league of Waterloo,
united in an invitation to Mr.. Rankin
to come to that place and explain to
the people what the state marshal
was, its business and methods and it's
application to the successful over
throw of liquor lawlessness. The re-
markable success that Waterloo has
attained in it's fight against the liquor
question by reason of the able adj
dresses given by Mr.. Rankin is OF
timely interest to those opposed to
the sale of intoxicating liquors in this
city, owing to the fact that upon the
fifth Sunday in this month, November
30, every minister who is a member
of the Ottumwa Ministerial associa.
ton will deliver sermon Oh temper
ance.
Mr.. Rankin's Address.
Mr.. Rankin's address ON The Els
sential Elements in a Stalwart Char
acter," brought long and continued
rounds of APPLAUSE during its delivery
Every minister in Waterloo occupied
a seat on the platform. The union
mass meeting in the evening was a
record breaker for the temperance
cause in the Blackhawk county city
Twenty-Five hundred people were
crowded il. the opera house, while
hundreds We're turned away. Mr.
Rankin's subject was "The Enforce
ment of the Liquor Laws in Iowa ant
the Relation Of the Movement There
to-" Never before had Waterloo
audience listened to such an address
on the liquor problem.
State Marshal Idea.
| With facts and unerring logic the
| speaker uncovered the liquor business
Law breaking, law annullification and
! you can't enforce the law are the
only words with which the liquor inter
ests conjure. The speaker pointed
out the liquor law breakers as hav
| ing no parallel In criminology, theil
attack on the forms of government
their boycott, and brutal attacks OF
private citizens, who try to enforce the
law, and their manipulation OF the Off
GERS of the law to prevent it's enforce
ment, all went to show the necessity
1 of another method of law enforcement
Mr. Rankin then took up the state mar
/ shal idea, pointed out that it wa.
practical and showed how it could b,
applied to the enforcement Of the Ii
4 quor laws.
/ An Epoch in Temperance.
i The objections TO the movemen
were then considered and one by one
were swept away. Mr. Ranlin's ad
dress was free from ranting and dc
nunciation. 1t appealed to the patriot
ism OF every good citizen, without re
gard to creed or political partisanshir
4 1t was an address OF great power an,
carried conviction to the hearts of ey
cry man in the audience. Men ON eve
) ry hand were heard to say, THAT
: business, that's common sense, that i
solution of the question of law er
! forcement against the law breaking ss
: loom 1t is believed in Waterloo tha
the marshal movement will mark
new epoch in the history of temper
ance reform