The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-20
INDORSES METHODS
OF CARRIE NATION
Clinton r. Howard DenOunCeS
Saloon at Central Presby-
terlan Church

In introducing to a large audience in
the Central Presbyterian church last night
Clinton Howard, a Prohibitiopist lee
turer. DR. John Nj. Fulton. pastor of the
church. asked that the people give the
word and furnish the means to go
ahead" with the local crusade against
the saloons and gambling houses. He de-
clared that the responses to former IN
vitatiOns had not been promising, ana
hoped that all those who heard the ad-
dress would. on their arrival home. send
him a letter indorsing the crusade that is
contemplated. promising that all sueh
would be given something to do, as
gambling he asserted, had started again,
after being stopped for a time.
The suggestion that those who indorsed
the movement should also contribute
came from MT. Howard who was brought
here to assist in arousing public senti-
ment. and who. during lengthy speech
against the liquor traffic, indorsed the
methods of. Carrie Nation, and said that
he would not blame the mothers if they
should follow the example of the Kan
sas woman. Howard comes from Roch-
ester. n. Y. where he says, he has led
a successful crusade. and is now travel
ing about the country as a lecturer. He
promised to make future appearances in
st. Paul
Introducing Mr. Howard, DR.. Fulton
Sdlu IildI MS appearance was III Tie Id
ture of carrying out the promise that the
campaign for righteousness will be con-
tinued until it is successA
The CAief of police, in IWdSing my re
quest that he close the saloons on Sun
day. advised me to agitate. We will agi-
tate and agitate! The police board refus-
ed to close the saloons and stop gambling,
giving as an excuse that the people at
the recent city election voted for wide
open policy. We will attempt to prove
that the voters had no such purpose in
their minds.
Applause In the Church
Mr.. Howard is lay prohibition orator
OF great force, and despite his efforts
to prevent the large audience from max
ing demonstration, he several times
caused display of approval by hand
that although he had been in ST. Paul
but few hours. and had therefore made
but limited observations. it was apparent
to him that the city is afflicted with many
Of the municipal evils that have become
only too common in American cities"
Officials and policemen enforce the
laws where the pulpits speak out fear
lessly and where the newspapers do not
refuse to print, or garble, the reports of
such crusades as are beginning in St.
Paul" he declared Let the pulpits
speak, let the people back their ministers
with a God given grace and fearlessness
and the saloons will be closed-closed
tight, closed as they should be. Limited
as is my observation, | am convinced that
the conditions in St. Paul are that police
men arrest nobody. unless it should be
some poor man who goes staggering,
Slobbering, jibbering down the street, who
IS without friends and without q pull But
is the Saloonkeeper, who made the poor
man drunk. the archcTiminal of the two
under the laws of the state, arrested? Mo-
Friends, when the mayor OF ST. Paul,
and other officials, say that the people
do not want the laws enforced he i'm
peaches you and declares, in no uncer-
tain way. that, although you hate the
saloon, refuse to patronize it, pray for
Us destruction, you vote for its con-
But would not kick the mayor down
the stairs Rather I would kick you up
TO him. The mayor and the officials should
be and are subject to the people if YOU
say the word, and not to the violators of
the law. If you are to have a st. Paul
worthy of St. Paul. there must be a
house-cleaning, and when the last effort
has been made, and the battle is over, You
VIII say as l say tonight, The saloon must
die
Your case is not hopeless In Roches-
Ter we mad mayor for fourteen years
who was dominated by the liquor inter
ests. but We started there as you are ev-
identity starting here. and conditions there
further improved The only effective man
ner IN which the saloon can be treated is
Tor the rulers, the people. to stone it
with balots-stone it that it may die Do
not pray against the evil and then vote
for the saloon candidates for Office for
by so doing, no matter to which church
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looms, and in you the saloons find their
strongest and most potent allies If you
do not regulate the liquor traffic in the
great cities the saloons will eventually
control the country as it is evident that
the time is coming when the cities will
control the United States.
If Howard Were Mayor
eff L were mayor of ST. Paul and it
were not possible for fifty policemen to
regulate and close these niaceS of in
1quity they could be handily disposed of in
some OF the large lakes in the vicinity
and the job turned over to sixteen w. c.
L. L. women armed with brOomS and
they would accomplish the purpose For
look how they ran down in Kansas when
just one grandmother got after them! Of
course she used hatchet! In the face
of the great evil that is being done by the
saloons L cannot condemn the resort to
the use of force, particularly on the part
OF the motherhood of the country-that
glorious motherhood that should bv all
that is fair and just possess the right of
the ballot. If they Were granted the priv
1Iege the saloon would vanish. as the thou
sands OF wives of st. Paul drunkards will
testify. 49,
sentiment, unity of action, unity of
strength, unity of all things that go to
make 1t successful; let there be brave and
fearless men and women willing to bear
the standard and uphold the hands of the
pulpit; let there be hberality and a loosen
ing Of the purse strings; let there be one
grand onslaught on the rumselling ele-
ment, the like of which this beautiful
city has never beheld, and under the
hammer that has won victories of note
the battle-cry Of the Rochester people, and
now the slogan as far away, as Bombay,
1nula go on to success under the motto
In the name of Jesus Christ our king
the liquor traffic must die"