Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-12-13
ANSWERS GENERAL ROGERS.
DR.. Porter Contends That Prohibition In.
Struction is Bringing Results.

would do better to take our pathmasters
over a certain highway than to be going
over the country giving temperance lee
lures, or words to that effect. / am
sorry to hesr you say that, General 1t
Is not IN very good taste in this progress.
sive age for anyone TO throw cold wate r
on work done by anybody to show up
the terrible effects of alcohol upon the
bodies OF the men who drink it, | was
requested by the cultured and Jealous
president of the w. G. T. u, an organ
ization which believe is doing more for
God and home and humanity than the
Christian church itself, to go over to a
lovely village and talk to the boys and
girls Of tine Loyal Temperance Legion
upon the Effect of Alcohol upon the
Human Body" ! had beautiful and
attentive audience of nearly hundred,
over half Of whom were bright boys ani
girls all wearing the little bow of white
ribbon, which when pinned on anybody's
breast ought TO excite q feeling of ad-
miration for the one who wears 1t. The
children had their exercises songs, roll
call, aeclamations, readings. and did
beautifully. Ii you could have heard
them, General / doubt if you would
have told me that "all this temperance
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! tell On that it does amount to some
thing and it will not be more than
generation or two before the whole
damned iniquity, the legalized liquor
traffic, will he voted ont OF existence In
North America. You know that Canada
is ripe for prohibition and remember
that when the government allowed the
people t. vote to test the question, a
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provinces from Prince Edwards Isle TO
to British Columbia, but the govern
ment needed money. You know too,
perhaps that half of the territory of
this Union is under prohibition, by
towns, counties and states Over half
of the south is under prohibition, by
counties, and seventeen ont of twenty
seven milllone Of people 1 believe, live
in this dry territory.
A few years ago ] remember that word
prohibition" would pretty nearly set
an old party man into spasms when he
heard it, IL Ia different now, A man
can be prohibitionist and not be
thought tit subject for Mendoza. The
great captains OF industry are nearly al
prohibitionists Eight hundred thous.
and railroad employees are prohibited
from even entering saloons. The great
steamship lines all demand sobriety
on the part of their men. The great
factories demand sober men the great
stores and machine shops. and even
the bar tenders union demands men who
do not drink alcohol Not only in
Americs, but all over the world, Is the
fight bsing waged sgainet this curse,
the greatest of them all The Mohom-
medan Turk, the natives of India, the
wild ei iefs of Africa are all fighting this
traffic thrust upon them by eor .iled
Christian men. In heather landg when
drunken fellow staggers along the
Neathen points his unholy finger at him
and says there goes Christian in
FlAnce, Germany, Switzerland and Bel
GUM much is being done by learned
scientists to educate the people regard
ing alcohol They work largely against
beer as beverage. Both King Edward
and Emperor William have made ii
plain TO their army officers that it is not
necessary to toast their sovsrign in
wine or alcoholic beverages, as water Is
as good The German emperor employs
for chauffeurs only men who are total
abstainers at all times The bill boards
of Paris were placarded by government
showing what alcohol will do for a
mans body. Alcohol est une poison,
the placard readF. "A very common
predisposipg cause OF tuberculosis"
Now, General, this is the second time
in a score Of years that have gone be-
fore an audience and shown those charts
which picture what beer and rum will
do for mans stomach, heart liver and
kidneys. ! feel condemned that | have
done no more to steer some warm
hearted, generous drinker into the right
path. Forty years ago DIR. VIM Butler,
the great missionary in India and later
in Mexico, invited over to his church in
Chelsea, an old doctor from Boston who
talked TO ne on intemperance | remem
Der only that he had pledge and that |
signed ii and kept Ii quite faithfully.
Perhaps, forty years hence some bright
boy who heard me talk 80 feebly will
pass along this story of the curse OF al
cohol II you or | can persuade one
man to not become dfinker of alcohol,
we have done greater good than fixing
two miles of road This subject con-
Germs every taxpayer. To illustrate
Years ago in Ohio lived man named
Baxter. He had good sensible wife.
He came home drunk and begat child.
1t grew and was idiotic In due time
he came home drunk and begat another
child. and later another, and perhaps
another. The poor mother worried for
fear these would be foolish and the
worry. superadded TO the drunken con-
dition of the father. gave cause for more
foolish children The family went to
Wisconsin and the children were forty
years in the poor houses of fertile
county and cost the county sl5. 900 more
or less. You cannot water plant with
two percent alcoi oi and have 1t flourish.
Seed corn and whea soaked In half beer
and half water will not germinate.
Eggs soaked in alcohol a day will not
hatch live chicks Then can we expect
that the cells which when united form
the starting point OF a human being
will produce a vigorous animal IL either
cell be saturated even in mild degree
with this poison No. How easy the
children of some steady moderate drink
ers die Il couldn't see any reason for
that little boy dying, gaid doctor to
me when the third little one had left the
home for heaven A beautiful healthy
mother and beer drinking father were
left childless. They die 30 easy, these
children of moderate steady drinkers
In conclusion. | will say that temper
ance people feel encouraged over the
result Of the late elections There has
been an extraordinary breaking OF the
old party ties In the peoples efforts 10
dethrone graft and corruption. There
is an irresistible spirit of political inde-
pendence and civic deeency pervading
the whole country. The people want
good government and when once aroused
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