The Glenwood post., 1908-09-19
From Fridays Daily Post.

FROM fflday'e Daily Post.
At the opera house last night be.
fore an audience of couple of hun
dred Eugene W. Chain, Prohibition
candidate for president, paid his re-
| spects to the Republican and Demo
cratic candidates and to the parties
they represent and explained how he
would wipe out the liquor traffic if
he were elected president.
Mr.. Chafn was introduced by Rev
| G. A. Foote who called this a Is to l
town, with 16 saloons to one Prohibi-
tion candidate, and Mr.. Chain in open
ing made humorous reference to the
metaphor. Then he launched into. his
argument which was that the only way
to stop the liquor traffic is by national
legislation and strict enforcement Of
| national laws and that 1t can be stop
ped in that way and in. no other way.
He took mp in detail the way in
which slavery was stopped in this coun-
try, polygamy suppressed in Utah and
the Louisiana lottery put out of bust
ness, and presented as a conclusion that
if these questions had been submitted
to vote of the people-'if local op
tion had prevailed, in other words-the
end could never have been gained
What is right is right, he said, and
what is wrong is wrong, and the way
o abolish the wrong is to legislate
gainst it and enforce the legislation,
regarding the question not as local or
state but as a national problem.
Local Option on Wives.
Brigham Young wanted local option
on wives, he said, but wolld polygamy
ever have been stopped if the question
had been handled that way' In this
connection he paid his respects to Mr..
Taft who, he said, would probably have
asked the Lord to wait and see if
majority of the people were in favor Of
them before handing down the ten
commandments.
He then took up the local option
question and said that towns will vote
saloons out of existence and on the
same day put in whisky aldermen,
whisky judges and whisky constables.
The only way to obtain prohibition, he
continued, is by using the same me
thods by which slavery, polygamy and
lotteries were suppressed, "and have
grown bald studying the precedents for
the prohibition party's plan furnished
by the Democrats and Republicans.
There should be one standard of morals
for the nation and the states, he said,
and if there were As states which voted
against the liquor traffic and one that
permitted it, Illionis, for example,
that state would supply the whole ma
tion. The only way to do is to pass
national law prohibiting its manufac-
ture and its transportation between
states.
Bryan's Morals Not National.
"Bryan says 1t is not national
question but Bryan 3 morals are not ma
tional. He is not big enough yet. If
you take that view of the question you
are Douglas Democrats, just so years
behind the march of civilization. You
who want to take the liquor question
out of politics want to put the preacher
and the brewer in the same bed and get
the votes of both. :"
To the Democratic outcry about the
tariff and pledge for its revision Mr..
ChaAn handed some telling wallops. Ad-
dressing himself to the Democrats he
said: eff Democratic senate and
Democratic house could not pass tar
il bill that the president would sign.
you couldn t do it now. If you don't
want the tariff ever revised put Bryan
in the White house." Bryan talks tar.
ID reform because he wants votes, con
tinued the speaker, and you talk Bryan
because you want the postsAase sr some
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