The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
HE NATIONAL PKOH1B1TION1ST
HOWARD PULLS NEW LEVER
Water Wagon World Express for North
South, East and West is Going
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ROCHESTER, New York, December 15-(Special
correspondence -One more great meeting is to
be credited to the account of CLINTON N. How
ARDS trumphs in Rochester. Every Sunday
since his return home from the Birmingham cam
paign he has scored against the saloon in his
home city with two three mass meetings.
Every part of the city has been visited and the
churches have been filled to OVERLOOKING With
one exception standing room only" has been the
sign. The afternoon meeting held today in the
Parsell's Avenue Baptist church no excep-
ton. Every inch of sitting and standing room
was filled to hear Mr.. HowARDs 3O5th Prohibi-
ton lecture in Rochester. The address today
was new one, entitled, "a Ride on the Water
Wagon" and was received with demonstrations
of approval.
Mr. HOWARD said in part:
"There is no more fascinating spot in the
world than the union railway station We have
left it and arrived on every train from the milk
local to the Twentieth Century Limited. But
there is no train on the schedule swift enough
for this afternoons ride. We familiar with
the CALL All aboard the Empire State Express
going East; Syracuse the first stop! All aboard
Cleveland the first stopY This afternoon we put
on a new train All aboard the Water Wagon
World Express going north south, east and
west; Prohibition will be the first stop!
Last Sunday I took my audience through fif-
teen states fast train today take you
across the continent on the Water Wagon Elk
press Neal Dow pulled the throttle hftysix
years ago, and the state of Maine was the first
and only passenger The liquor power of the
nation has exhausted every device of the under
world to wreck that train, but it has remained
the track in spite of every effort to throw the
SWITCH bride the conductor, drug the engineer or
kidnap the dispatcher, with the little state of
Maine in the forward paror car, the cleanest
most enlightened and prosperous 100000 people
under the American flag.
eft has the most compliant men in public life;
it has the highest average OF intelligence and
character to numbers at the national Capitol; 1t
has the largest number of depositors; it has the
most money in the banks; it has the largest pop
ulation in the public school; it has the largest
number of home owners, and the fewest number
of drunkards and deaths from drink.
INSPIRED by her example, cities and towns,
counties and states are making a rush tor the
water wagon train.
Georgia, Alabama and Oklahoma are the new
est passengers among the states of the South;
of the North and standing in line at the ballot
office is the Church of Christ in every state, re-
inforced by the Brotherhoods, Knights, Unions
and Federations, waiting to climb aboard.
"The grand terminal station at the national
capital has been completed just in time. Wash
ington will be the next stopV'
Mr. HOWARD will address, the Massey Hall
meeting in Toronto next Sunday, December %
So many the calls coming in for platform
work that Mr.. HOWARD is arranging his business
SO as to devote nearly all of the winter months
to the fight, with engagements in the South, and
for Nehroc1yo