The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-22

1 Saloon League, told of the progress of the New Crusade against the Saloon.
 He said:
 The divine method of dealing with great problems is in the fullness of the time. In the fullness of the time God sent His Son into the world to redeem them that were under the law. He is also doing things in the fullness of the time. The earth in its rotations and revolutions Is never a moment too late nor moment too early. In the realm of Gods economy everything moves on sch edule time.
 '.The Church is his representative in the world. There are times when the Church seems to be devoting herself to little things. trivial things, while great wrongs flourish unrebuked. This fact has caused other wise good men, at times. to turn their backs upon the Church, and to visit upon. her their harsh invective and biting criticisms. This is their mistake. At the time when the Church seems to be devoting herself to little things, 1t is usually the period of preparation. It may take the Almighty a hundred years to make single step, but he never steps back wards. Men and women who think fairly closely upon a given subject and who feel intensely, are likely to think themselves out in advance Of the rank and file of the Church, and having done this, it requires an immense amount ot mental ballast to not say and do un- wise and extreme things. Neverthe- less, the man or woman who becomes fretful and faultfnding, and at times even vituperative, because of the in- difference of the Church as & whole. touching great evils, is worthy of greater consideration than the man or woman whose heart is never stirred because of a great wrong.
 Men speak and write of the present movement against the liquor triffic as a wave as if 1t were something likely soon to. pass away. This movement had it's beginning in this country hundred years ago. where now the cen- tennial anniversary of the founding of the first temperance society in the United States is being celebrated. at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.. near the grave of the man who founded it.
 Most of us think. forget that before the breaking out of the civil war, seventeen states had passed into the prohibition column. All New England was under prohibition. The great State of New York had adopted that policy. The latter forties and hfties were marked by, mighty uprising of the people against the beverage liquor trafflc Then came the breaking out of the civil war; and while the guns thundered at Bull Run and Antietam, 1 the alleged liquor interests of the country gathered under the shadow of the capitol at Washington, and while the nation was staggering under the blows of civil war they said to the leaders of Congress Place a part of l the burden of this war upon our traf- | fic,' and the Internal Revenue law was enacted.
 Lincoln and Liquor.
 ''We are told that 1t was presented to | Mfr. Lincoln for his approval and he re- | fused to give 1t his approval, stating l that If this became rooted in the rev.
 enues of the republic, 1t would give us l more trouble than human slavery. The | leaders ofCongress assured him that it l mas simply a war measure, and at the | close of that war it hould be repealed. ! But when the war was ended Mir. | Lincoln was in his grave. and the l leaders of Congress had forgotten their promise; and for nearly c half century | this trafflc has been permitted to drive It's roots down into the greed of the
 people because 1t pays into the reve- l nues of the country. At the close of
 the war, the more conscientious and patriotic gave their attention to build | ng up the broken fortunes of the re- | public. The less scrupulous devoted l-kAGkuSelNCS bO tlAHtItpaA pOlbtGos 4hSy found there the saloon. claiming the 1 protection of civil government. and I ready to furnish money for the cam l4paign and votes for the candidates. l while the public officers thus elected ! permitted the saloon to violate the law
 and go unpunished This condition of l. things continued until 1t became well I night intolerable. It was the present President of the United States. more | than a dozen years ago, who said to the liquor interests of the City of New 1 York T am not responsible for the | enactment of the Sunday laws, but I | am responsible for their enforcement "A little later that same spirit and purpose was caught up by that splen-
 did young District Attorney of St.
 Louis, now the honored Governor of the
 State of Missouri, who, in his effort
 to destroy graft and lawlessness in | that city, sent some to the peniten- tiary, some to Europe and some to l