Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-08-17
REV. W. B. pALMoRE.
Has Crossed the Atlantic IA Times
Speaks in Mexico Tomorrow
Night.
Night.

The st. Louis Republic a few
days ago contained the following:
Gov. Folk came in for consider.
able praise from the Rev. w. b.
Palmore, ID. d., who spoke on
temperance at Centenary Method
list church, Sixteenth and Pine
streets, last night. Mr.. Palmore
took occasion several times during
his sermon to eulogize the Govern
or for his measures in enforcing
the closing law in the State.
when we haye such men as
Governor Folk" said the speaker,
men who take such firm stands
against the liquor traffic, then the
world is rolling out of darkness
into light. What is needed 10
this country is a little more stiff.
fleming Of the backbones Of men,
and more men like Gov. Folk"
Mr.. PalmOre spoke to large
aud evidently sympathetic audi
ence. That he took his subject
close to heart was evinced by every
statement he made.
Il once served four years in the
Missouri Penitentiury," was the
opening sentence of his lecture.
After few moments of silence
he added, as chaplain"
The lecture was given in behalf
of temperance and to aid the fund
for a memorial window in honor
of Frances Willard.
DR.. PalmOre said that during
his term as chaplain he made his
first visit to Europe and the Brit
ish Isles, bearing personal letters
from Governor Phelps aud Prcsi-
dent Hays. These letters gave to
hum access to the public institu.
tons of the Old World, especially
in prisons, in which he was anx-
ions to study not only the cOndi.
ton Of the prisoner but the
sources and causes of criminality.
Since that time he has crossed
the Atlantic fourteen times, and
studied the same problems in all
the lands. lie said that about
two thirds Of the confined crimi-
nails Of the world came to grief
and the prison thru the sale and
use Of intOXicants and opiates.
DR.. Palmore wildly portrayed
the part intoXicants played in the |
destruction of Cevrra's fleet at
Santiago, and OF Rojrstvensky's
fleet 10y Togo on the Sea of Japan.
BE depicted the lawIessness which
he discovered in Alaska, three
years ago, aud which was immc.
dialrly suppressed by President
R"nSrvrIt as soon MS he had been
informed "f the fact.
II" said the placing 1T such men
in positions Of power us President
Roosevelt and Joseph Folk must
have been anticipated by Longfel-
low when he wrote:
The world is rolling
Ont of the darkness of the night,
Out of the darkness Into the light,
Aud day is breaking everywhere.
The sulutary influence of such
men, he said, is felt, not only to
the confines of our Republic, but
around the civilized world.
DR.. Palmore sud that the more
electrical our civilization becomes
he greater the need for clear
brains and steady nerves, and the
less chance there is for the cigar.
ptte fiPnd and the drinking man.
lie said thu most powerful agencies
aud Influences now working for
the prohibition of drink are the
steamship and railroad companies
that such companies are finding
hat bPcloudrd brains and unsteady
nerves at a throttle valve may cost
Of dollars in a single min.
nte.
Science is now throwing such
food Of light on the whole prob
lem that the whisky doctOr'' is
now n hack number, fossilized
monstrOsity nf the olden time. If
the proper kinds of charts could
be- hing On the walls of all the
public SrIInnlS. he slil, correctly
pnrtrnying thu physiological ef- !
r'rts nf alcohol, nicOtine and on
iun, the rising zen ,rAiiNn WOuIl