Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-07

err for the small amount of his produce
sold to the distiller.
The testimony of many judges of
this and other countries as to he
baneful influence of intoxicants in is
effects upon the commission OF crimes
was cited A case from the Illinois
supreme court decided not year ago
was referred to and the remarks OF
the court in its opinion read at length.
Statistics from Indiana and other
states and from mayors of various
cities were cited to show the bene-
hcia! effects of the restrictive policy
wherever adopted, in the matter of
the better enforcement of the law, the
lessening of crime, and increased
business in legitimate lines of trade.
In closing Governor Hanly said:
An Emphatic Conclusion.
81 hate the traffic in Intoxicating
liquors. / hate it's every phase. l hate
1t for it's intolerance | hate it for its
arrogance. | hate it for its hypocrisy.
hate it for it's craft and false pre-
tense. | hate ii for its commercials
ism. | hate It for its greed anu ava
rice | hate it for its sordid love of
gain at any price. I hate i. for its
domination in politics. l hate it for
its corrupting influence in civic af-
fairs. | hate it for its incessant eff
fort to debauch the suffrage of The
country; for the towards 1t makes of
public men. l hate it for its utter
disregard of law. | hate it Tor its
ruthless trampling of the solemn com
paCts of state constitutions. | hate it
for the load it straps to labOr's hack,
for the palsied hands it gives to toll,
for its wounds to genius, for the trag-
edy of its might-have-beens. ] hate
it for the human wrecks it has caused.
hate it for the aim house it peoples,
for the prisons it fills, for the insan.
ity it begets, for its countless graves
in potters fields. | hate it for The
mental ruin it imposes upon its vic
Tins. for its spiritual blight for l..
moral degradation. | hate it for the
crimes it has committed. | haze il
| for the homes it has destroyed.
hate it for the hearts it has broken
late it for the malice it has planted
in the hearts of men, for its poison
for its bitterness for the dead Sc;
fruit with which it starves their SOILS
| 81 hate it for the grief it causes
womanhood. the scalding tears, the
hopes deferred, the strangled aspira
tions, the burdens of want and care
hate it for the heartless cruelty tC
the aged, the infirm and the helpless
for the shadow it throws upon thu
lives of children, for its mGnst:or;
Injustice to blameless little ones.
hate it as virtue hates vice, as trutl
hates error, as righteousness h,th
sin, as justice hates wrong, as libert'
hates tyranny, as freedom hates des
potism.
! Looks to Future.
Il hate it as Abraham Lincoln hate
slavery. And as he sometimes saw il
prophetic vision the end of SLAYER
and the coming of the time when IN
sun should shine and the rain shoHl
fall upon no slave in all the republic
so | sometimes seem to see the en-
of this unholy traffic, the coming {
the time when, if it does not who'll
cease to be, it shall find no safe hab
taticn anywhere beneath Old Glory
STAINLESS folds.' ga
Music is Provided.
/ a picked chorus of men sang SCI
leral patriotic selections, includin
'Illinois" and the Battle Hymn Of tn
Republic" The Wennerberg choru
of Augustana college sang the $50
diers Chorus and responded to tn
applause with short selection.