Evening journal., 1907-11-04

On Saturday the Prohibition literary
bureau published the speech of one
Clinton n. Howard, which was deliver
ed in Rochester. n. Y. It was called
a Message to Retail Liquor Dealers. ."
II will, no doubt, be OF great interest
TO the citizens Of this city and State
TO read the answer written to Howard.
by George Muller. OF Pennsylvania. who
has given the people of Wilmington so
much valuable information during the
campaign now closing Here is Mr..
Muller's answer. Read it well, for 1t
contains facts.
This man Howard is appropriately
the representative of the things he
stands for. In the travail of the worlds
progress many evils are evacuated, but
necessarily the process Of elimination
proceeds through human personalities.
Howard is one Of these.
The days of Cotton Mather and witch
batting are recalled in him and we
snuf the odor Of martyrs burning at
the stake.
Howard Says.
He says. III 1t is wrong to make it,
etc"
II is not wrong to make Il; The Lord
made It at Cana Of Galilee. And drank
it, as He practically testines when. in
contrast to John the Baptists abstem-
ious habits He says: The Son of man
came eating and drinking, and We say,
Behold a gluttonous man and a wine
bibber, friend of publicans and sin
ners"
That which the Son of God did can
not be immoral.
The statement that he would have
told the truth, etc. II is a gratuitous
falsehood
Gladstone did not declare the busi-
ness of selling liquor the greatest of
curses He declared intemperance to
be a curse. II is, intemperance Of speech
among the other kinds
The Incorporate harangues Of the
blgot preachers IN medieval times
urged fanatic mobs to destroy ruth
lessly men, women and children
This flood Of slime the spttal OF
moral tuberculosis, perhaps deserves
no comment and requires no refutation
They were as unsuseeptble to reason
as the mob that crucified Christ or
stoned to death His servant Stephen
They may even think they are do
ing God a service. for the mind Of the
blgot turns inwardly and out Of his
heart proceeds the result Of his pervert-
cd mind
That such a speech should be de-
liVered in a church called Christian is
not surprising, for the witch Surnings
OF puritanism were advocated from
altars dedicated to the service Of God
and the religion Of the Saviour Of men,
That the meeting was opened with
prayer Is not q greater blasphemy than
60 80.
God. we thank Thee, that since we last
assembled here. Thou hast permitted
Thy servants 60 beset the heather and
massacre more than two score men,
women and children and send theii
souls to perdtion."
DR. Mather was filled with the spirit
of evil but he thought it was the spirit
OF God. 1ntemperance in language semi
millions 10 the guillotine in the days
OF Robespierre and the Reds of the
Seventies"
Nm. e. Gladstone, If he could b,
called forth from the land Of shadow,
would be the first to rebu<e this Mac
Mullah Of Rochester.
AS the Sixth Commandment is broker
more in Maine than In any other Stat,
in the Union, as proven from the di.
vorce statistics; more murderers ir
ratio to population I'm Kansas than II
any central western state, and NOR,
rapists than in Massachusetts. with
twice the population, with more non.
lchurch goers and more religious foo
fads in Maine than most any wher,
else,-we suggest the text quoted as
proper inscription over the door o.
the convention hall where prohibition
next holds forth. Ii might also be useC
over the rostrum where Howard speaks
lHoward's use Of Scripture should b'
lconfined TO one sentence:
"God be mereiful to me, sinner"
His eight counts we dispose o
briefly:
As to the first. The saloon is not ;
Toward. Hotels. restaurants and nearly
all eating houses seclude their dining
rooms from public scrutiny in thii
country; the people who patroniz'
these places. as we'll as those who pa
tronize the saloon prefer this; but n
localities where the law requires
screens TO be removed il does not ap
lpear TO initiate against the business
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