The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-01-30
SEES CIVIC DANGER
Rev. {. 7. FaniII Discusses Dan.
gers Which Menace City at
Congregational Church
URGES UNION OF CITIZENS
Minister Declares That This Is the Way
To Secure Right M en- in Office and
the Cleaning of the City So
Long Desired

The Rev. E. T. Farrill, pastor Of the
First Congregational Church, hit
straight from the shoulder at the dan
G rs which menace Kenosha at his peo-
pie IS service on Sunday evening and it
is deeply to be regretted that many
more Of the people interested in the
welfare Of Kenosha could not have been
present and heard the address While
conservative in his discussion of the
great questions of the municipality, the
speaker did not mince words and he
sounded the slogan for a union of all
the better elements of the city into a
strong organization to fight vice and
corruption and law breaking at the
polls.
In his address he discussed the pleas
ure park, the dance hall, the saloon and
the negligent parent as the grave dangers
that are menacing the city and he also
paid his respects to the over jealous
reformer that would seek to rush the
work of reform in such way as to
destroy the c2d for which all. were
working.
Mr.. Farrill spoke Of the parks about
the city and declared that there were
things going on in these parks which are
unspeakable and unprintable and which
were working co corrupt the morals Of
the boys and the girls Of the city. He
declared that the corrupt influences of
these parks had become nauseating in
the nostrils of decent people and that
the time had come to eliminate this
danger. He spoke of the danger Of the
dance halls and declared that at the
present time the dance halls Of Keno
sha were moral danger on account Of
the fact that they were turning young
men and women and often girls and
boys out in the early morning, many Of
them so intoxicated that they could not
walk straight. He declared that these
dance halls were instilling principles Of
debauchery and vice in the minds Of the
boys and girls. Mr. FarriIl spoke about
gambling declaring that no man can
give himself up to the destinations of
the card table and the gambling den.
and at the same time give proper at
tentlon to his business and his home.
He declared that in Kenosha there were
men whose business was tottering be-
cause of this love of the game and that
the practice of gambling had untitled
many men in Kenosha for the prosaic
drudgery of business. He declared that
this practice was extended to the young
men and that there were men older in
life and vice who were encouraging the
young men to take up the life of the
gambler.
He spoke of the saloon declaring that
the saloon was danger because it was
not satisfied in destroying the character
OF the man but insisted on destroying
his intellect and body as well. He claim
ed that the destruction Of the saloon
was three fold destruction beginning
at the little child and passing through
manhood to the old man.
"The saloon,'' said Mr.. Farrill, cen
to them untold misery and woe.0
He spoke of the liberty that was be-
ing demanded by the saloons and de-
clared that the saloon had not right
thai was not given it by the people
under the law, that it was the right of
the people to interfere when the So
called liberty of the saloon man be-
came license. Mr. Farrill declared
that it was the duty Of the citizen to
withdraw the rights given to any man
when he exercised these rights in such
way that he made Of himself a nublic
nuisance
The speaker declared that the saloon
was to blame for eighty per cent of the
crime and poverty in the commni-
ty and that in addition to this it
was damage and a nindrance to
every legitimate avenue of trade. He
said that the abolition Of the saloon
would mean betterment for every
phase of legitimate life.
AS to the abolition of the saloon, Mr..
Farrill declared that he was not yet
ready to speak. He said that the men
that took only one view of great ques-
ton was as much a danger in the COM
muntly as man who violated the laws
He said that the reformer must stop
and consider the welfare of the COM
munity and be ready to join in any
work for the better interests, but that
at the same time the over Jealous man
should not be allowed to start a move
ment which would retard and menace
reforms for all time. He said that
these reforms must be carried out with
Judgment and horse sense by men WHO
were willing to wait the time and onno-.