Milford chronicle., 1907-09-20
COlOrsd Orator Speaks for Temperance

of Front and walnut CtLSeIsi NOisN
Milford. which was not largely at
tended because Of the people being at
work in the canneries and in the fod
der fields, but it was attentiveiy lis
tened to by more than four hundred
people blacks and whites. The speaker
was John H. Hector fine speaker OF
the negro race, and his talk was pointed
with good stories which were catchy.
He replied to the liquor dealers many
assertions as to the desirability of keep
ing the saloons, and advised the colored
people to take all the money they can
get from them, but, to vote as they
chose at the elections. He is doing the
work necessary to organize the negro
vote for temperance, and has setforth
strong reasons why the negro should
especially have the liquor business pan
ished for their good. He has spoken IN
several towns.
Evangelist Hector, seeing the pubic
support he was receiving in this meet
ing. which had scarcely been adver'
tised at all, plunged into iniective
humor which soon had his audience
fairly shouting. Then he went into
the pathetic side Of inebriety and its
consequences, but only for five minuets.
Thereafter he dealt in epigrams.
''They say the abandonment OF IL
cense and the enactment Of prOhlbitOTy
law will raise taxes. It's lie. Itlow.
ers them everywhere. II we should
have TO revise the assessments wen tax
those gentlemen who won't go out and
do an honest days work, and then
we'll tax bachelors.
"Taxes. taxes. Why the only man
OF my own race who has given that ar
Qument had his heels out on the pave.
meDt. HeOWned no land except what
was under his finger nails.
nThey say it'll kill business. The
only way you can iDjuTe business is to
iniure production or retaTd It,
i'What does the saloon produce? do
thew nut it on exhibition in their WIN
doWs? Other dealers in all lines exhl-
bit their wares.
"The words rape and 'riOt-terTible
epithets-are associated with the negro.
| Wby? Because the whole South has
been firing the negro with bad whlskeyi
making fiends and criminals OF us.
"Nesrly 3. 900 900 negroes were left ID
the South for four years with nearly
every white home unprotected; girls
and women alone. Not q home was
violated. No other race in Chrlsten-
dom can show such record.
1.-THE white SOutherners returning
from the war, brought with them war
whiskey and sold it to us. We became
j insane and uncomfortable. the South
is now wiping liquor out OF existence. .,
Talk about going to Jim Crow and
disfranchise US! It's the open saloon
that's going to do that for us. VINO
wants to ride in the same coach with a
real drunken negro?
1.-THE most lOvable, industrious, trust
ing, confiding and healthy race on
earth. the race to which ! beloug, Is
being transformed into q race Of uhde-
sirable citizens, inselent, lazy, noisy
and unhealthy, by whiskey.
"Some preachers, both white and
black. are not aroused to the urgent de-
mands upon them. I'm not q great
man. only a locomotive engineer, re.
tired, but il yeu'll stand by me, I'll
smoke these out, for God helping me,
I'm not afraid.
"AII preachers in Della ware, however,
are not wrong. God bless the seltsac'
rificing. true blue ministry. One clergy
man in Smyrna had $500 thrust under
his nose bv Wilmington whiskey men
but he replied that he counted no sac
rifice dear, not even his life.
1t is a battle between barrels and
3Talk about Jim Crow cars. Say 1
never saw anything to beat this sepa
rate submarine, cOb-weoOy, cross eyed
massage down through which you
wind to get to the negro bars Of this
town for your inferior whlskey.
1.-THE tWo-bar system must certainly
take out Of a man all the Independence
and self.respect he has left
HYOur poor wives and mothers are
are trudging out every day to the wash
tub. with their shoe sOles tied on with
old ribbens. It's all right to wash and
work. but where's that money going
and why no shoes?
1.-THE saloon mems wives wear soft
Sorosis shoes and silks and satins. HOs
wear NATURES soft sOles.
"Sav let's change this thing around
awhile Let the saloon man put on the
jumpers and jeans for an honest days
work or two. 1t will be good for his
liver and will put out his lights.
WGoOd strong fellows like us who
can earn from 81 to 50 a day ought to
be living on something better than
liver, lights and msckeral. can tell
YOU how. Get whiskey out OF the way
and buy beefsteak instead That gives
YOU bone, blood, tissue, strength,
thought and happiness.
The medical students over in Cam.
bridge piled me with questions about
fine medical properties Of liquor. Gould
1 tell them any other stimulant pro-
duced by nature which would energize
: the latent human system.
IT named three far more potent ener-
visers produced by nature-Q bald
headed hornet (2), a wasp; (3), dry
Canada thistle. If you go home and
sit down gently on any one OF these
and not Immediately stimulated, you