The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-05-22

bury crowd to run their matter Tor
them and he wouldn't The News
and Observer is standing up for the
men and women OF the state. And
some of these days We are going to
build a monument to those papers that
are not killing their fellow man, a
monument that points to the skies
and whose inscription Is written in
letters OF god" This sentiment was
cheered heartily as was the reference
to the News and Observer. And then
she touched up the papers that carry
liquor ads. You can't keep them
from printing them," she declared.
NO. you can't but you can keep them
from coming into your home, those pa
pers that are controlled By the whiskey
people. had almost as soon have
snake in my house and there II hardly
a decent newspaper that will carry
these aiyertisementsin their columns"
tCheers.l So, .>-,.~. vs.. y.
Mrs. Curtis said that although Kan
sas Is so often called bleeding Kansas.
the state OF crime. cyclones and
greenbugs. as people think. has never
theless more money per capita than
any other except old Maine. TAP
pIause) And the reason old Maine Is
first is because she had prohibition
thirty years before Kansas did. ZAP
piause.) Bleeding Kansas has more
children in the schools than any 9TH
er except old Maine and it's because
Maine was thirty years ahead OF her
In prohibition. There are fewer In
jails than any other except Maine and
in thirty-five Of that states jaifs. there
IS not o prisoner. (Applause.D Why,
they talked about leasing the peni:ea'
tiary to Oklahoma. but that state went
dry September II and now they are
thinking Of renting II to Illinois. ours.
ed by saloons and crime and whose
per capita Is less than any other state
in the union. APP ause.)
Il said that the saloon brings an
archy. When crime Is committed
where do you go to find the criminal?
In the saloon, not the Sunday school.
When murder is done. you 20 to the
saloon. not the church. Why, when
that Catholic priest was murdered last
wear the order went forth TO Danish
theanarchists for one had slain
him. I got 80 mad at the
authorities that I DID not know what
to do. And ! SAIL In the name Of com
mon sense. what are they doing. talk
ling about the deportation % anarch
fists when they are harboring more
anarchy in the saloons in one town
than could be found In the country In
a year. Destroy the saloons and yot
Danish more anarchists In twenty
four hours than you can deport II
twentyfour years. wi d eheersD
She took up the popular tradition
that Thomas jefferson and Abraham
Lincoln spoke words Of condemnation
against prohibition. II all the meaI
things" she Indignantly shouted, 9TH
nieanest Is 10 lie on dead man.
: would lie on somebody who hal kini
people II I were going to tell an or
, truth" And she said both Jefferso
and Lincoln had spoken words 70
temperance and prophesIed that IN
, Intrusion Of the sa Don into America
S politics wouli be followed by disasts
and ruin. Let me say. you can't b
a decent republican and vote for
could be q carbet Dagger. And 70
could be a garbet baggeri AM "a
4 can't be a Jeffersonian democrat an
n vote for II. You can't be anythir
but a boozeo-erat." she laughing
A remarked.
= And what II they had written al
" spoken for the saloon? Did that mai
ID right. Haven't times changed col
Ie pleteiy since their time? Time vi
.e when every doctor who came TO .
\. you put a ieech on you and bled 20
:, they may bleed you yet but III
y don't use the ieech," II went In
laugh. t+.
c. She was funny when telling how {
drinking man goes 70 town and "se
'em up" The old fellows wife m
not be able 10 set the table, but
wants to set EN- up" she said.