Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-31
TEMPERANCE CRUSADE HAS
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brings business will not hold today.
There is not business man in the
city who does not prefer and seek aft
er the trade Of clean farmer and in
dustrious workingman far more than
after those who frequent the saloons.
And this latter class are the only
ones who come to town because
there are saloons there.
ut says it does a legitimate bust
ness. But legitimate business is one
in which real commodity owned by
one man or group of men is exchang-
ed for full value with another. No one
has ever dared to put the saloon on
the basis of dealing in goods which
gives the purchaser full value. The
touch Of the business is loss and de-
preciated values. If it is legitimate
products? Why do the stores refuse
wants clerk do they go to saloon
graduate from It? Who wants drunk
tally intoxicated all the time? The
business condemns itself"
Personal Liberty.
Mr.. Locke, after answering some of
the statements made by saloon keep
ers, then spoke upon Personal Liber-
ty, saying:
"This term is a stock phrase of the
saloon men. But personal liberty may
be thus defined. No man has the right
or liberty to do that which Injuries
another and thereby brings suffering
upon that one and others near him.
Liberty means the right to so live and
act that our lives and deeds will aug
ment the happiness of the world, in
crease the worth and probity of man.
hood and womanhood. Liberty does
not mean the defiance of laws. civil
and moral. but the fullest obedience
thereto There are no good saloons.
Beer in one will make just as drunk
as beer in another. For every dollar
represented in the business America
is paying back in lost farms, Destroy
ed homes, hungry children, besotted
fathers. crazed mothers, ignorance,
poverty. the madhouse and the felon's
cage. Al this in the name of Personal
Liberty. God forgive the travesty.
IT believe thoroughly in the singing
of psalms and in prayer and in wor-
ship, but 1 believe, too, that the time
comes when men must roll up their
sleeves and become warriors. 1t Is the
violent who break into the kingdom
of God It is the men who storm the
entrenchment and drive the enemy
from their quarters.
sThe mythical descriptions In the
Bible of Cog and Magog are childlike
conceptions beside the struggle Of
giants which Is fast passing into a
death conflict in this our own nation
and our own day, Let us not despise
our enemy, nor minimize the equip
ment with which he goes forth to
war. He is implacable. he, is unscru-
pulous. he has agents low and agents
high; he has money sufficient to pur-
chase kingdom; he has never
fought honestly and never will. For
some of those who oppose him a mar
tyr's death awaits. But as bloody
Lovejoy was seed which ripened into
a freed people, as the blood Of mar
tyr's has always been the seed Of
church, let us go forth confident that
whatever the price asked, the man.
hood of our sons and the virtue of our
daughters and the prosperity OF our
beloved nation demands the price, and
that with devotion to the high ideals
of the Christ under whom we have
pledged service, we will pay whatever
price be asked.
els there a father or mother here
this morning who has boy they
want to give to the saloon? Or a
daughter whom they will contribute
to the by-product of the saloon God
help US in this time to be men,
Rev. L. n. Otto's Sermon.
Rev. Leonard H. Otto, pastor of the
First Christian church addressed I,
large audience at the church last ev-
ening on the subject of Modern
Awakening He said in part
This Is the worlds temperance
Sunday. Because of this fact and be-