The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-01

WOOLEY WAS
THE SPEAKER
At the Local Option Tent
Monday Evening.
PREDICTS The RESULT
Speaker Declares Marion will
Speaker Declares Marion will
60 "Dfy."
Clinton N. Howard, Rochester, New
York, will Speak In Marion Three
Days Of Next Week.

| Eight huHureu lHleISSJGu nlen, eab-
er for information and instruction
concerning the temperance move
ment and the campaign which was
iraugurated today In detail, listened
for more than an hour fer the sec
ond time to the Honorable John G..
Wool'ey, of Chicago. The address
was characterized by spirit Of
sweetness and lyentleness of an un-
common kind and was conspicuous
for the absence OF any possible bit
torness.
Mr.. Woolley's thoughts was that
men who go wrong are not so will
fully wicked as they are weak. lie
said that censure and condemnation
he was thinking about his sermon
should not be given even the sa-
loon keeper or the attendants bui
that they should be dealt with in
kindness and sweetness. lie said
among other things, "the duty OF
/ any government is to make Vt easy
for men to do right and hard to do
wrong" and that this was not done
when we planted in every square OF
our city streets those institutions
which make 1t harder for men to do
right and easier for them to do
wrong. incidentally. he made refer
ence TO the advertising announcement
OF the liquor men in which they said
the rames and address of the sign
ers of the petitions would be pub
lisheA throughout the county and
tbcrirht that this was poor ex-
hIbition OF the personal liberty Of
which they have been saying so
much. When man was inundated
and embarrassed In his right to take
advantage OF law OF the State OF
Ohio. he thought 1t was interfering
very much with the personal liberty
OF man.
"Can there be any right more sac
red to true citizenship than ths
right of the American ballot? II a
man desires to sign Local Option
Ipetition, has any man the right to
deny him the opportunity to express
his opinion at the ballot box? Such
a threat is an attempt to deprive
a man OF a right given him by the
constitution Of the United States,
the constitution OF Ohio and by the
staues of the state. 1t is as much
as to say, 'sign the petition If you
dare and we will tell your neigh
bors' 1t is childish threat and
will react upon the element that in
spired IT,
He said the man 20 be pitled the
most was the man who wns directly
interested in the business and told
how much any man with an or
dinary amount Of humanity must
regret having TO get up In the
morrdng and go to his place OF
business without the thought of
helping somebody to be bigger and
better, more abe for service. bet.
ter in pocket book. happier In the
home, or in the last analysis to make
the world a little better place to live
in. Indeed there are few men inter-
ested in the business who do not
admit that II Is a mean and un-
Satisfying business In every way
excepting, perhaps, of finance.
Mr. Wcolley said that the wave
OF reform that is a'w here is not
ephemeral or transitiry but is come
TO stay because OF ON educated peo-
, PIE VINO have got to stay sober Il
they do the worlds business and
do II right, and he predicted that
the time is not far distant when in
much larger and in more com.
prehensiye way, the saloon as an
institut!cn Will be tabcoed.
ln concluding, he predicted vie
TORY for the dry forces in Marion
county and was strong in the hope
. that kuch would be true
? n conformity to the plans of tbe
) local option league of the county,
patitions are today being circulated
; IN every precinct of the city and
county by some three 10 four hun
dred people and officials give out the
infcnmation that by concerted and
intensive effort the required num-
per OF petitioners, about three
tNcusand. viii De early secured aud
the election will be held as far this
slda OF the general election as pos.
4 isl"e mat II might be gotten out
1" the wav and not conflict with
the rational election.
IL was announced at the meeting
last n'ght that clinton N. Howard
N rochester N. Y, whom Mr.
Wooiey mentioned was about the
hrst speaker on this subject In
america, will be here Monday,