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

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she presents, she speaks better. Sh,
has enough of the subtle sentiment I.
reach the heart and sufficient sense d
pierce your intellect with her thought
She is a remarkable woman and tha
saloon man who said he would have
given $1,000 to have had her outside
his town had an eye for business and
appraised her power at ten cents on
the dollar.
| That Texas creature entered the
Academy at SOS. She was given q
moderate ovation and when prayer and
song began she took the stage. She
was introduced by Rev. G. T. Adams,
who said he appeared so habituaily
In that role that they had quit intro
ducing him. When he said the whis.
key people are running because they
can't fly" he gave the speakeress a
chance to perpetrate the smartest
sort of bon mot and she did It thus:
u am from the little state of Texas
that hasn't disti!lery In 1t. (Ap.
plause) And local option has put %.
looms out of 12s counties. (Applause.)
They say the whiskey people are run.
ming because they cant fly and am
afraid they will never have wings
so long as they travel that road"
What could have been cleverer?
Il understand that they have other
kinds of meetings in this place. (Rey.
g. T. Adams, not often.) Wen I am
glad that they are so seldom. I am
glad that they can open these meet.
ings with prayer. Our friends Of the
other side open theirs with a cork
screw" Great applause.)
The speaker then went into a short
history of prohibition and told of its
missionary and militant work. ats
white ribbons bet the world many
times" she declared. aand We have
sent its gospel to fifty-nine of the ma. |
tions Of the world" And then she be- |
gan her assault upon the proposition
that prohibitory laws won't work. |
She read from the laws OF Isiah and |
exclaimed God was the first prohibi |
Zionist. His law was broken and the
penalty assessed for II was death. But
Gods prohibitory law was never re-
pealed. Great app.ause.) And It would |
never have been broken II that devil
from the outside had not entered the
garden and turned Ewes head by talk.
ing personal liberty" This hit
brought forth long applause. 1t was
hit
Mrs. Curtis took up the condemns.
tons contained In the book OF Isiah
and discussed their relations to the
saloons as promoter OF drunkenness.
TT reaches the man whom the proph.
et describes as 'minglins the drinks"
she declared, "and minging drinks
means the mixer Of drinks. There are
two classes Of these, the man who
stands on the inside OF the saloon and
pours It out and the man on the out.
side who pours II In" was the way
she dealt with that side Of II.
And then she addressed a few 70
marks TO the men who vote for So
oons. The saloon" she warmly re.
is as good as the man who
keeps IL and the man who keeps Il h
y good as the man who votes for K
You can't separate the two" she
'houted while the church people chin.
q In their unctuous amens. .t.fl
She traced the growth OF the saloon I.
rom It's birth In the New England
dier barref In the cellar until q a.
iumed the proportions Of the old ser.
vent in Morse mythology that wraps
t. coils around the world. She show. !.
d how II has entered the congress-
lalls Of the land. corrupted the solons
u Law, wrecked affairs. poilutei
hrones. besmirched the courts. dis.
raced the lands, caused blood 10 Gov
md hearts to break. she said: The
aloon came. not 70 al a demand, as
hey say. but for q career which has
zen CIVIL. religious and moral. For
ears where II fourished Il has been
.lmost impossible 10 carry an election
Without It. II is business Of uniaw.
illness and there Is not q saloon mi
our state that could stay open TWEEN.
y-four hours n IL obeyed the law IN
er which II takes out license. ZAP.
lause.D There Is not one that ever
wed up to the obligation that II
axes when license In given IT,"
Here Is where the newspapers
aught II. Mrs. Curtis was talking Of
be three factors working for moral
eform and mentioned the church, the :
ONES and the school. Take awayI ),
he church, and you have ldoiatry: i
estroy the schools and you have igno. v
ance and superstltutlon, but destroy T
he home and you have free love, an. q
rchy, destruction white we revert to 10
Omadic tribes. tGreat applause.D AMI n
this fight, We have the pulpit, the y
ress and pedagogue with Us. | am
lad that the preachers are with ~.
ow you know I milan preachers.
very. little fellow who wears a long =,
ack coat and a white tie Is not a h
mister. Some Of YOU thought I wa L,
aking some exception. daughter ~
hat little fellow In like the boy who u
udied grammar and came to a mas &C
Iline gender. He was told that
cant male, or man. Then he came A.
feminine gender and was told tina
anf fannafn me- ugnvnnw mas -. a