Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-05-22
GENERAL 4. B.
'''' ''-' : CONFERENCE d
Growing in Interest, Says
Rev. Potashinsky
WILL CALL ON
PRES. ROOSEVELT
And Tell Us All About II Next Week
Expects to bo Home and Hold
Service Sunday, May 81
Baltimore, May 10, 1908.

-ESpeCt8 TO Do 0ouc anu boso
Service Sunday, May 81
Baltimore, May 10, 1908.
To the Enterprise:
Sunday is always great day in
the General Conference week and the
particular Sunday OF May 10th will
not be soon forgotten by those priv
ilcgcd 10 I've in Baltimore a' that
time. We have listened to five
speakers today and the usual brill
liant rhetoric common to such occa-
sions seems to have given place to
profound statements OF serious in
tent, There is a feeling in the air
that the moral forces OF the land arc
about to engage in the last desperate
struggle with the powers OF vice.
marshailcd under the banner OF the
liquor traffic Of this land. and thou
sands today pledged themselves TO
cniis,-and the word has come to
mean the use Of armed force il neees-
sar~ in this struggle.
The climax Of enthusiasm was
reached at the great mass meeting in
Lyric Hall this afternoon presided
over by DR.. Samuel Dickic. Presi-
den, of Albion College. Three prom
inen, men addressed the gathering.
Bishop Luther Wilson OF our church,
Presidcn, Of the An,i-Saioon League
OF America. Mr.. W. II. Anderson. the
local representative Of this organi-
sation. who by the way Is n brother
in-law of Miss Otweil. assistant prin.
cipai OF our high school and Gov.
Harley of Indiana. II appeared when
tho bishop finished his address that
the vast audience was at the height
OF enthusiasm. but when Mr.. Andcr'
son was speaking. tho spirit OF de-
voiion TO the causc OF temperance
rose higher yet. and when Gov. Han
ley in an address OF over an hear
portrayed the dcspcfaicncss Of the
struggle and called for volunteers to
make sacrifice that tho manhood,
wornanhood. childhood aud home hfs
oi the nation might be protected the
scene was indcseribabic. This; your
Rocky Ford readers nigh; sc, a lit
tie OF the spirit Of this really great
occasion I send herewith tho closing
paragraphs OF the greatest temper.
ancc speech ! have ever heard.
Speaking OF the liquor traffic he said:
NHtC " Tor tue lbaN " straps -
iabor's back: for the paisiri hands Il
gives to toll. for its wounds 10 gen.
ius: for the tragedies Of its might.
have. .bcens. ! hate Il for the human
wrecks IL has caused. hate !; for
the simshouScs Il peoples: for tho
prisons /; fills: for the insanity IL be-
gets: for its countless graves in pot.
,cfs' fields. hate Il for the mental
ruin /, imposes upon iis victims. for
It's spiritual blight. for its moral deg.
relation. ! hate !; for the crimes u
has committed. hate 10 for the
homes !, has destroyed. hate u
for the hearts IL has broken. hate
!, for tho malice !, has planted in tho
| hearts Of men: for its poison. for its
bitterness. for the dead sea fruit
with which IL s,arycs their SOILS. !
hate IL for the grief !, causes WON.
anhood-;hc seaidin. tears. the hopes
deferred. the stranTlcd aspirations.
It's burden of want and care. hate
IL for its hcarilcss cruelty TO tho
aged. the inf'rm and the helpless: for
the shadow !, throws upon the lives
Of children: for its Inonstrous injus.
,iec to blamcicss little ones. J hate
Il as virtue hates vice, as truth hates
error. as Righteousness hates sin. "a
justice hates wrong. as liberty hates
tyranny. as freedom hates oppression.
! hate il as Abraham Lincoln hated
slavery. And as he sometimes saw
in prophetic vision the end of siav-
cry and the coining of the time when
the sun should shine and the rain
should fall upon no slave in all the
republic. SO ! sometimes seem to sec
the end of this unhoiy traffic: the
coming OF the time when. II IL docs
not wholly cease TO be. i, shall find
no safe habi,a,ion anywhere beneath
Old Giory's stainless stars"
I have heard tho traffic arraigncd
again and again bu, never in such
burning words and never with such
tremendous effect. Verify the hand
writing Is on the wall and tho saloon
must go.
Threatening rain prevented the Wis.
I; to tho Gettysburg battlefield so can
not write up the scene of this dccis-
i've battle. am hoping to have
time to run over before the confer.
cnce closes.
The traveller coming down from
New York notices a pleasant change
as he becomes acquainted in Dalti-
more. I refer to the difference in
the cost of living. The thing you pay
sioo for in New York vou purchase
for half that amour; here. cxccp; in
a few articles. Consulting my cN-
pcnsc account | find that the tourist
can live" just twice as long here as
in the metropolis. This may seem
strange. for /; is presumed that the
larger the place the easier and hcBss
the cheaper. IL might he to sell
goods. bu, il would seem that you
must pay for the very air you breathe
in our largest city. And this beside
the tip" You mus, tip the waiter,
. a. II. 4. Al.