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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-08-08
Much Of the dabauched pop.

5. Much Of the dabauched pop
uIar opinion in support of the rum
trade is due to the malpractice Of
shyster physicians dosing their
patients with alcohol and patent
medicine, often worse, thus leaving
the false impression that alcohol is
kind of panacea while the doctor
sits on the fence and really knows
better. He knows if the people
would take water instead of whisky
and believe in the water as they do
in alcohol, they would sooner get
well. Alcohol is good preserva-
tive of medicine, butseldom within
itself sensible remedy for any
human disease.
The doctors should get off the
fence and preach Prohibition.
8. Saloons are the assiduous
enemies of capital and every CAPT.
taist should come off the fence and
march up on the firing line. Rail-
roads, factories, ship lines, banks,
construction companies and such
wholesome enter prises should form
a combination to crush out the in
fernal and always damaging liquor
traffic. But, alas! so many capt.
talists sit on the fence while the
whisky business makes inroads into
all the interests OF capital. The
man with money too often says;
With eloquence warm Va. -rge reform,
Let all the world take note;
never shrink from temperance work,
Excepting when vote.
7. Even few mothers and many
society swell dog fOndlers are hung
ont on the fence. Whisky is foe
to woman's happlness-making her
life miserable in ten thousand wAys.
Drink begins its deadly work
through hereditY, before the child
is born, and 200, 900 infants die
young for lack of chance to be
"welI born" or perish in some pow
erty-stricken, tobacco-fumed, foul
air room. conditions produced
through rum, where not even q
steamboat rat could survive the
deadly poison. With the poison
Gus gases and foul air in many
drunkard's homes filtered through
the 100000 air cells of baby's
lungs each night, the wonder is
that thousands more do not die.
Many survive only to be dyspeptics
and weaklings the remainder of
life, and very frequently these de-
plOrable conditions exist because a
drinking father has wasted bis
earnings in saloons and cannot pro-
vide for his child healthy home.
Damn the soloon because it is the
enemy of the mother and her child.
Rum kills 100000 old and twice as
many young persons each year in
professed civilized nations.
Mothers, "Come off the fence,
and help destroy the arch-fiend of
the world.
8. The American press is thor.
oughly saturated and controlled by
the heinous influence of liquor.
Very few of our great dAilies dare
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-08-08

Irusts-the Internal whisky
Trust" WhyP Well, simply be-
cause it is the trust in which they
TRUST.
"The mill of the gods grind
slowly but they grind exceedingly
fine"
stand by the flag, all doubt aud treason scorn.
ing;
Believe with courage firm and faith sublime,
IL VIII float until the eternal morning
Fales in its gories all the conflicts OF time"
The fellow ION the fence" is the
picture Of preacher. He is one
of those "milk and cider, tootsey
wootsey, pan cake preachers" who
makes merchandise out of the
Gospel of Christ and breaches to
please men instead of God. Before
l would be such preacher l would
rather be a dog and bay the moon.
The preachers of America are
the logical leaders in the fight
against the rum demon which
breeds irreliGion, crime and an
archy. Every preacher instead of
standing idly by with hands in
pockets, watching the fight, ought
himself to be up in the front rank
on the firing line. Hundreds of
them are fighting, thousands more
are coming, but some are "on the
fence"
''We are coming, Father Abra-
ham, hundred thousand strong"
Bishop Potter poor Bishop Potter {!
"From out the millions Of the earth
God often calls a man
To preach His word, and for the truth
To make n loyal stand.
'Tis sad to see in its defense
Between the fields of right and wrong
preacher on the fence.
Before him are the souls OF men
Destined for heaven or hell,
An open Bible in his hand,
And he dare not tell
Them all the truth as written there,
He fears the consequence
The shame Of heaven, the joy Of hell,
preacher on the fence.
Most sHrely God has called that man
To battle for the right;
Tis hrs TO ferrot out the wrong
And turn on us the light;
He standeth not for right or wrong,
He feareth an ohense;
Great God deliver us from him
That preacher on the fence.
His better judgment, common sense,
They pull him to the right,
Behold him grip that top-most rail,
And hold with all his might
His love OF praise, it holds him fast,
Keeps him from going hence;
He's in most unpleasant plight,
That preacher on the fence.
But soon both sides will find him out
And brand him as a fraud.
coward he who dare not please
The devil OF his God;
His priestly robes they are all
A miserable pretense,
And men for truth will do their best
To club him OF the fence"
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CONE OFF THE FENCE.


When negro slavery brought on
the Civil War, the people were d.
vided into these classes:
L. Those in favor of slavery.
2. Those opposed to slavery.
3. Those who were on the fence
The same conditions exist today
in reference to the greater slavery,
the licensed saloon system, and It's
baneful influence, worse than negro
slavery ever was or ever could be.
1t is written in the Bible, "a
double minded man is unstable in
all his ways" James 1:S.
You have heard of "cranks' and
~hobby riders Well, they are not
so bad as fence riders" One
great trouble with this world is the
number of men and women who sit
on the fence for popularity in pref
erence to getting in the middle Of
the road on the side of truth and
push ahead to bless the world.
Men and women who are without
we'll defined convictions, seldom fall
in line with truth in active effort
unit. compelled by popular opinion,
made in spite of them instead of by
them. There are thousands Ofsuch
"fence riders" on all the worlds
greatest probIems-speciAlly the
licensed saloon problem. These
are a great obstacle in the pathway
of human progress.
For brevity l will discuss them
under fifteen classes.
1. The firs9 man on the fence is
the professed patriotic citizen who
knows that Prohibition is sensible
and right, 'but' he loves his rum
cursed political party and when it
comes to moral issues he is non
cOmmittal, he loves to straddle the
fence.
2. Church members are great
''fence riders shown by the fact
that many of them will not vote at
all and two-thirds OF them vote for
rum.
To show up this class correctly
the fence should be a thousand
miles long and men on each panel
as thick as blackbirds in tree tops.
There is a class Of men today
Who enter church to sing and pray;
They pray 20, Lord, thy kingdom cOme,r
And then go out and vote for rum.
Eye cannot serve God and Nam
mon" Come off the fence.
3. The school teachers of Amer
lea are great factor in molding
public opinion, but thousands of
them are indifferent or non-commit-
tai on the license saloon business.
They should come off the fence and
come up on the firing line. Too
often with the patriotic citizens
and church members the school
teacher sings:
I'm temperance man, will do all can;
will earnestly talk and pray;
viii labor with might for the cause Of right,
But cannot vote that Way
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member selling negro slaves for a
slave trading member-both of them
license saloon voters. In front of
the church shonld stand the Saliva
tion Army and many distinguished
patriots and lecturers begging for
the privilege of using the church to
preach the divine principle of Pro.
hibition, but not the party, so as to
make sentiment to destroy the IL
censed saloon. For without public
sentiment every effort at reform
must fail.
Peeping around the corner with
frowning faces should be the official
board (the preacher sometimes in
clnded), protesting against the
use of the church for Prohibition
meetings, or like the Central Chris
tian Church IN Wichita, Kansas,
saloon cursed town, wanting to,
charge $25 per night for such
meetings.
That is modern christianity GO
ing straight to hell. Thank God,
the majority of churches are fast
coming off the fence and up on the
firing line.
How will those saints at last
appear.
Who favor rum. gin, ale and
beerS
Will the good Judge say to
them, ''Come, Ye b,eseed ones, who
favored rum?"
ID. Many state governors are
either ION the fence" or clear
over on the eide of rum, but q few,
like Republican Hoch, Of Kansas,
Democratic Folk, of Missouri, and
Republican Judge e. C. O'Rear, of
kentucky, have come off the fence
and sup on the firing line" to help
save America from the blighting
curse of rum. These men
Date to be like Daniel, dare To stsna alones as4
Dare 70 have purpose, dare to make it know.
The fellow ION the fence" and
on the side of rum says:
vote for right is lost from sight,
For the cause is weak today;
It might grow strong, if helped along.
But cannot vote that way.
With the party strong, Though the cause be
wrong,
My vote viii soon be casts
Though want and woe in streams may flow,
Aud whisky rule at last.
IA. l have just finished reading
the message and documents of
United States Presidents for fifty
years. As a rule the Presidents
and Congressman have been "hand
in glove" not even ION the fence"
but clear over on the side of rum.
They have discussed and legislat-
ed, prohibited and regulated, di-
seases among the cattle, boil vice.
will in the cotton, wild game, from
the buffalo to the weasel, from the
catfish to the trout, race problems,
state, national and interna ton Is
sues, but excepting the prohibition
for American Indians, wards of
the nation, there has not been
enough written on the prohibition
of the liquor traffic to fill one col
umn in a newspaper. This is a
shame, a dirty, burning shame.
The Presidents and Congressman
have been "tithing the mint, annis
and cummin and neglecting the
weightier matters OF the law"
Like the voting members of the
nation, they have been engaged in
the business of "straining out
gnats and swallowing camels," un-
cooked, legs, hair and all. Good
Lord, deliver US. We need Thy
help. If Prohibition succeeds it
will be in spite of such men and
not because of them.
Lincoln said. Victory shall be
complete when there is neither
slave nor drunkard on the EARTH
Mckinley said the liquor traffic
sis the most degrading and ruinous
of all human pursuits"
Roosevelt is ION the fence,
smoking his cigar.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-08-08
Cures TURKEY Diseases.

Bourbon Poultry Cure. For sale
by W. s. Lloyd. "a
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-08-08

When negro slavery brought on
the Civil War, the people were di-
vided into these classes
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27
MUMMIEs USED AS FUEL.
Burn Like finder, Says SaiIor-Drled
Fish Makes Good Fire.

81 have eaten mutton cooked on a
fire of broken mummy" said the sail
or ut was in Egypt, and the mummy
was stolen out of tomb. The ma
tives are always stealth mummies.
They sell them in pieces to tourists,
and what pieces they can't dispose OF
otherwise they throw into the bin for
fuel.
Mummy burns like finder, but it's
a CHASTITY fuel. 1t is as CHASTITY fuel
as the shot lasts what they burn in
the shoemakin' town of Lynn, where
the old-fashioned and discarded lasts
CLOWN in the CRATES, look to you like
amputated human TRIBES.
I have been in tannery towns
where the fuel is leather chips. This
fuel smells and smokes. 1t clinkers
too, formin' itself into big, solid
chunks what have to be broke up with
the poker every little while.
I'm British Columbia, where fish is
as plentiful as air, they burn dried
fish when there's no wood handy. The
oil in the fish causes them to burn
we'll but the smell of this fish fueI
amt to no white mans taste"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27
NATIONAL CASH REGISTER co.
WANTS TO COME TO INDIANA
Many Cities Are After it and Hammond
Has as Good "a Chance as Any to
Land the Prize.

The National Cash Register company
OF Dayton. is seeking a location in
Indiana and the Marion (Ind.l Leader
seeing an opportunity for the benefit
OF Marion urges its business men 10 in
terest themselves in order to secure the
factory. The words that the Marion
Leader uses almost mt the tune that
Hammond has been singing for some
time and is in the following strain:
The National Cash Register COM
pany of Dayton, O.. an immense con-
Germ, is seeking a new location in
Indiana. This factory, the largest of
It's kind / nthe country. employs sew
eral thousand men and has a pay roll
of over 100000 annually. Should
the factory be located in Marion it
would increase the population of the
city almost % per cent
AN excellent opportunity is offered
the Marion Commercial club to land
this big industry other cities are in
hustlng to win the prize. Marion
needs a good many more factories, and
a concern like the National Cash Reg
lister company would mean a great
deal to the business interests of the
city.
Even If Marion could not success
fully land the plant it is proposition
that would be worth the effort and
should success crown the undertaking
1t would mean more to the business
men and the city in general than can
be anticipated
The annual expenditure of $4,000, 00C
among the business men of the city
would mean a great deal, and there Is
no line Of business, no matter how
small, that would not profit from this
enormous expenditure. The addition OF
one thousand families in the city
would be a valuable acquisition anc
would increase the population of Ma
rion almost 25 per cent. 1t would be
the cause of more new homes in al
parts of the city. 1t would increase
the value of real estate and stimulate
business generally.
1T is said that representatives of the
company have been seeking a location
in this city and that propositions have
been made to several local business
men. That the factory is eagerly
sought is attested by the fact that {
number OF enterprising cities in tn,
west are making the company fine
propositions.
| Having lost two Of the best factorie:
that sought locations here, the sewing
machine plant and the automobile In
dustry. here is a change for Marion tt
redeem itself and also to still further
make its future assured"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27
Negroes Threaten Injunc-
ton to Prevent Discus
sion of Race Question.
LOOKS PRESS AGENTY"
Scion Says He's Not Afraid and De-
calres Agitation is Merely
A Good Ad.

Chicago, Nov. 27.-United states Sen
ator Benjamin ]. Tillman arrived in
Chicago early this afternoon. lie de-
clared he was ready to speak unpro-
tected. but the police will guard him.
He was met by a reception committee
headed by Mrs. A. J. Keeler, who has
charge of arrangements for the meet
ing tonight, which is for the benefit of
Chicago Union hospital and Mrs. Mar
guerite Warren Springer.
Detectives were at the station on
orders from C.Aef of Police Collins, but
the reception committee beat them to
the side of the car as he left the train
and escorted him to a waiting automo-
bile that took him to his hotel.
Despite the developments before his
arrival today-which included a threat
upon part OF a committee of negroes
get an injunction restraining him from
speaking Tillman declared
that his speech would be delivered as at
first announced.
Il do not anticipate any trouble at
all" he said "AI this talk, I take 1t,
is merely for advertising purposes
that is the way it looks to me-not a
bit more serious. 1t is strange that a
United States senator cannot speak in
northern city without police protec-
ton.
4 will not deviate an ieta from the
line of my speech, and l don't think
this talk Of police protection and body
guards is worth more that a laugh at
the most. I am pretty good guard my
self for Senator Tillman.'
There were developments today
which showed that neither side has
yielded. Among them were these:
Rev A J. Carey. pastor of the Bethel
chapel, announced that Senator TIL
man would be asked al the last moment
to omit all mention of negroes or the
race problem from his speech. If he
refused an injunction would be asked
for and, the Rev. Carey said, would
be granted.
Mrs. A ]. Keller declared that if an
Injunction was asked for Former Judge
Miles s. Macon. who wiki preside ar
the meeting. will go into Federal
court and ask to have the writ dis
solved.
DR.. C. e. Bentley, member of the
committee of colored men, declared
that the incident is closed with the
exception of one more move to be
made late this afternoon-the offer of
a certified check to Mrs. Keeler cover
ing the estimated profits of meeting
to be given if Senator Tillman does not
speak.
DR.. Bently said that two white
women had offered to donate another
sum of money to the hospital, provid-
ing Senator Tillman was not allowed
to speak.
Mrs. Keller said she would not be
surprised If an attack was made or
Senator Tillman outside the hall, but
no trouble was to be expected at the
| hall.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27
NEW CASES FILED.

361e-The Lawyers Operative Publish
ing company VS.. ]. G. Ibach-re-
plevin.
s62o-The Continental Insurance COM
pany VS.. T Z. Knotts-Civil.
s621-John Dam VS.. The Inland Steel
company-CivH.
s62z-John Otto Nelson VS.. E. John
son-CiviI.
ss23-william Holderman VS.. Henry
Heschler the I. II. r. R. Co., and the
c. I. & s. r. r. Co.-AppeaI.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27
MARRIAGE LICExEs.

Dewitt Pyle. Chicago. .............2s
Rose Gibbons Chicago. ..........24
Chas Hyde, Chicago ...t...,.....4S
Eta Boyer. Chicago. ........,....29
Geo w. Wood Chicago. ........2s
Margaretha LobeL Chicago.
John Killen. Chicago. .,.....,.....25
Mamie Crimmins, Chicago, s...Iq
Charles E. Noble. Chicago. ..3e
Flora C. Z. Rasmussen, Chicago, " .2T
Charles Mccormick, Chicago. p.4s
Amy Black. Chicago. ......,...,,...Ss
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27
Fond RecolIeotlnns

He-When l was going down the
Rhine l promised that every time I
drank glass of vino l would think
of you.
She (tenderly) how often you
must have thought Of me, Fritz, I
can see by your nose!-Die Muskete.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27
JAMns's HAD TOO MUCH.

Jones o'Rourke Of this city, and
James Hurley Of Hegswiseb, were
taken IN By the police sunday night on
the charge Of drunkenness. The latter
paid fine of S11 IN tbs city court,
while ORoarke remained Ia the jail
while ia order to sober Up.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27
Ancient History

THAT guy Goliath may be able to
Withstand the stones from my sling"
said David the night before the bat
tie, "but there are other stones. l
can hand him a piece of restaurant
cherry pie, maybe
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27

Couldn't you get Krotchet to give
anything? It's certainly a very de-
serving charity"
Yes, but he said the subscription
price was beyond his means"
HIM! lie meant beyond his mean.
ness"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27
WILL APPEAR IN ODD GOWN.
Van Dyke & Company Makes Decided
Hit at TOwle's-Remain a week.

The Van Dyke & Eaton company,
which commenced a weeks engage
ment at Towle's opera house last night
was greeted by an exceptionally large
audience The whole company does
excellent work throughout the eve
ming and Miss Ollie Eaton has the dis
tinction of being one of the best and
mosting striking actresses that ever
appeared on the local stage at such
popular prices. The company is par
ticularily strong in the specialties.
which are produced between the acts.
illustrated songs are given and Nc
Coy and Jackson" and the "Hooprolling
Man" appear. The prices are certainly
low enough considering the merits of
the attractions.
When the Bell Tolls will be pre-
sented tonight and Miss Ollie Eaton
will appear in her $500 Mother of
Pearl" gown.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27
Usual Luck,

What was the result Of your hus-
bands new system for playing the
races?'
"Oh," answered young Mrs. Torkins.
the bookmakers had their usual mar.
row escape"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27

THE EDELwEISS-A. n. MCGEE, pro-
pristnr. Corner Clinton and Hob
man streets. High grade wines, IL
quors and cigars. Chaplin & Gore
goods a speciality. "Edelweiss' on
draught-11-27-3t.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

Dance given every Thursday and Satur-
day evenings by the Riverside Pleas
ure club, at Nick Kahrs Pavilion, Calu-
met avenue. Music furnished By
spaniers' orchestra. 11-2s-St.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27

FOR RENTAL automobile for rent at
Hammond Garage, phone ST63.-11-
27-10t.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27

name of Fly. II found return TO II.
Kilcullen, whiting. and receive re-
ward.-11-27-3wk
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27
NETGHB0RH00D WHIST CLUB
DELIGHTFULLY."- ENTERTAINED

Mrs. }. McDermott Is Hostess at Charm-
ing Affair IA south Holman street
TIOme-Japanese Luncheon is Feat-
urc,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27

st. Paul's Lutheran league will give
a musical entertainment Wednesday
and Thursday evenings in the St
Pauls school building. at the corner Of
Sibley street and Oakley avenue.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27

FOR SALE-A good horse, weight
1000 lbs. Inquire at Sherer's Bak-
ery.-11-27-1wk.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-27

LOST or sToLEN-FreIn Harry Kill
cullen, q white greyhound, one black
spot On ear; eight months oIdl gees by