The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-05-07
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IeVefy DAY happenings VIII give the
texts and the facts. They themselves
will make an energetic introduction
a well sustained middle and an effec-
tive peroration to every article your
pen shall write.
| Let we'll selected committee in ev-
cry locality prepare short pungent ar
ticles for each weekly issue. If we
mix with them little brains, it
won't be drawback. but above all
is the clear enunciation of conviction
and the spirits power to reach the
people.
Ask your local editors, whether
you be on this press committee or off
of task them as subscribers to
their valued paper to place the tenn
perance reform and the great moral
issues of the day in which you are in
terested upon the front page occasion
ally-that they may not be entirely
outranked by the polo, the football,
and the race track.
This press committee must have
tact and great deal of good common
sense-in active exercise.
1t will need grace and grit as we'll
as Prohibition sentiment, if it sue
ceeds well with the managing editor
A gracious presence and persua-
sive tongue are helpful adjuncts in
wedging temperance convictions.
This committee should not be COM
posed entirely of those old and tried
but of those young and eager as
we'll, who only need the breaking and
the Harvesting to do effectual service.
The same elderly, we'll balanced,
very much respected member of this
committee need not always present
the temperance report. The editor will
| like to look at a fresh face OCCASION
ally. He knows our spectacles and our
irregularities by heart and is mistak-
emily prone to think that "There are
no others and we are Hobsen 8
choice.'
Our message can always be fresh
and in touch with the every day hap
penings in national life.
When an application for license APP
pears then should come the protest
in the nick of time and not a week
too late
| Send the protest where it can count
for righteousness and reform and
don't spend all your force and time
just talking it over among yourselves
When your relief corps finds cases
of abject poverty the result of liquor
habitually doled out to a drunkard-
when you can prove It to have been
sold on Sunday or on election day
or to minor then is the time and the
opportunity to use your fact for a
pen point in the daily paper.
Let the press committee reiterate
high license law to be delusion
Liquor dealers pay their license
fees but they resist the enforcement
of the law in every detail, moreover
high license money becomes a corrupt
ion fund to induce men to support the
traffic because of the revenue it
brings.
1t puts The people to the alternative
Of voting away thousands of dollars
from our city, Or voting to sustain
the traffic that the revenue may come
in.
Regulating the evil is like cutting
off the rattle snakes tail. 1t don't
make so much noise rafting its warm
ing note, but it does its biting all the
same.
If the people must have deadly
serpents, let them have them tails and
all.
The only way to cure rattle snakes
is to kill them and there is no other
cure for the liquor traffic.
An exchange sums up the years
work by the liquor traffic in the fol-
lowing figures:
5000 suicides.
10000 murders.
10000 fallen girls.
100000 paupers.
100000 orphan children.
100000 maniacs and idiots.
100000 criminals.
100000 drunkards' deaths.
100000 boys to take their places,
besides the small sum of two billion
dollars in money.
How shall we help you to feel a
1.-THE of the meaning hidden in these
figures? How shall we find way to
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