Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-27
MODERN DEVIL
ON The JUMP
Outline Of Dr.. Conybeare's
Address Delivered at the
Presbyterian Church
Last Sunday.

'Oh thou invisible spirit Of wine, if
thou hast no name To be called by let
me call thee devil" So said Shake
Speare and if he said that of wine
| what would be said of the invisible
spirit of whiskeyp
That surely is a modern devil and
the traffic in Intoxicating liquors for
beverage purposes is a devilish traffic
to which every Christian man ought
to be opposed. The fight for the sup
preston of this traffic is desperate
one but the forces for temperance have
| no reason to be discouraged since
many glorious victories have been
won in recent years. There is a
steadily rising tide of sentiment of
opposition to this traffic sweeping
over the land. Bonforts Wine and
| Spirit Circular said not long ago:
There is a rising wave of prohibition
sweeping over the country from one
end to the other that threatens to en-
sulph and carry to destruction the en-
tire whiskey enterprise" Perhaps
| but few people are aware what vast
extent of territory in this country is
| already under prohibition through
the operation of local option laws.
Secondly there is rising tide of
| sentiment in favor of the better en-
fOrcement of all law. 1t is being real |
lied more and more that lawlessness
| is anarchy and saloon lawlessness
| the worst form of anarchy.
This has resulted in the closing of
saloons on Sunday in many of the |
| larger cities where this law had long
been dead letter and the results have
been so gratifying that as Father Nc |
Cleary said of Minneapolis at is in
conceivable that the people would |
ever consider u return to the old or.
| der of Sunday debauchery." Sunday
closing in Missouri has resulted SAYS
| Governor Folk in general average
education of criminal prosecutions
| throughout the state of forty percent.
And IL is significant that the one man
| who deserves the credit for this wave
| of law enforcement more perhaps than
any other is the democratic governor
Of Missouri who when county attor-
| ney in st. Louis conceived the idea
that it was his business to enforce the
law without fear or favor and being a
young man with conscience and cour-
age to set to work to do his duty.
| May God give more such public offic-
ials and when we have them let us
| give them our support and encour-
agement. Ii is to be regretted that
the governor of this state does not
have the power to secure the enforce
ment OF the state laws that the COVER
nOrs of other states have.
The anti-SalOOn league Of Iowa Is
proving itself powerful agency for
the enforcement of law. During the
year 1905 the state league assisted in
securing lib injunctions against LID
| nor vendors and also in defeating
| mulct petitions in eleven counties and
| four cities during the year. This
Nleague with such an able, tactful iu-
| diciOus man as DR.. McCash at its
head should have the loyal support Of
| all Christian people OF the state.
! Again am glad to report that Con-
| gresS at its last session enacted a
number OF measures In the interest of
| temperance, such as the closing of the
! saloons run by the government in the
Ellis Island emigrant station and in
the Capitol building in Washington,
| and the liquor canteens in the old
soldiers homes and also the maintain
| ing of prohibition in all that territory
| in the new state of Oklahoma which
| formerly belonged to the Indians.
In our own state the passage of the
| five year limit bill is considered by
| DR.. McCash the greatest victory for
| temperance won since the enactment
of the prohibitory law twenty years
| ago. An immediate result was the
abandonment of the project to build a
large brewery in Des Moines.
About eight or ten years ago Mr..
| Carroll Wright who was United
States commissioner Of labor took
pains to ascertain the opinions Of EN-
| ployes of labor as to the effect of the
use Of Intoxicating liquors by work
ing men and in one of his annual re-
ports stated the results of his investi-
CATION saying that ''even the most
ardent advocate of total abstinence
will be surprised to find that of 1925
establishments, employing l,745,923
men, D 1863 employers reported that
they took into consideration the hab-
its of applicant for positions in re-
gard to the use of Intoxicating liqu-
ors.
More than one-half of the estab-
4 lishments reporting require in certain
occupations and under certain circum-
stances that employees shall not use
Intoxicating liquors. The fact brought
out most clearly by the investiga-
tions is that employers are growing
more and more to require strict sob
riety from the men who do their work
realizing that only thus can faithful
and good service be had"
Many of the largest railroad cor
porations absolutely forbid the men
in their employ entering place
where liquor is sold at any time, not
only when on duty but when of duty
as we'll But more significant still is
the position that the highest medical
science is taking regarding the use
of liquor especially in Germany,
Switzerland and Austria where scien-
lists, professors Of medicine, physi-
clans, medical directors of hospitals,
insane asylums and prisons are unit
ing in crusade against alchol based
solely on scientific grounds, declar-
it to be nothing but pOisin with re-
suit that the use of alchol in medical
practice has undergone q complete re-
volution. Prof. Forel Of the Univer-
sity of Zurich declared that alcohol
was the real devil of modern times.
| Not long since the state medical asso-
citation of Nebraska adopted re-
solution against the use of any intox-
icating drinks at the social functions
of the association. The recent pat
ent medicine exposures, the numer-
Gus decisions of supreme courts de-
claring the saloon nuisance with
no natural rights, the inficting by the
courts of heavy damages on vendors
On liquors for injuries received by the