Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-22

pied by some other business and all
We're e%nejoying a good trade. The
summary of the whole thing is this
Tor awhile after the saloons go out
there will be d certain amount Of mac.
tivity, but after a reasonable lapse OF
Tune the quietude reacts and YOU will
ilild mat business and commercialism
was v better.
Inc situation here. is The same that
IT was IN Mnscatine a year ago. A
wave of civic righteousness swept
over the city and good men arose at
once and championed the cause. Among
others was Billy Roach. the lumber
King. God gave him the leadership
ana say to you, that some one man
amons you must rise up and assume
the leadership OF this battle and lead
TIC forces of Israel against the enemy
| understand that $50, 900 or there.
abouts is the annual reycnue that ac.
crues from the business here. If Won
could follow me twcnty-fours hours III
my work in Chicago, follow me to the
red-llsht districts and watch me raise
some tallen girl. see me raise some
mothers son from the depths you'll
see In a minute that these saloons arc
DOING the most dangerous thing on
erod S earth and that YOU people, by
not openly fighting the liquor business
are q party to the crime.
You arc doing q dangerous thing
Tor two reasons. You are not making
it easy for a man to do right if he
wants to and you are makins it too
easy for him to do WRONG. Shut I'M
these hell-holes and keen ON shut.
Over in the Joliet penitentiarv
there arc 1,400 alen. There are qof
college graduates. there from the big
ger schools and ninety per cent Of
them landed in the pen from booze.
lney had 3 bitter fight in Muscatin,s.
and because Billy Roach stood up AMI
said, BY the help OF God I'm in the
game to stay old Muscatine's as dry
as a last years birds nest tonight ana
the lid is Oh tight. There's only ono
thing about Muscatine that I'm sorry
Tor. The other day when Sunday went
over there to hold his Jubilee over the
victory the saloon men tried to iostla
him at the station. Say. / weigh 225
pounds and Id like to have been there
and hit that first guy a solar plexug
jolt right where Sullivan used to land
EN-. He'd have gone down hard. don't
you forget 1t. Some of you people
wouldn't have done that but an Irish
man always loves a scrap and I'm
Irish clear through.
Il believe that if this fight is hand
led right that we are going to win.
The next ten days will be the hottest
this city ever had. All YOU people
need is backbone. If I could find some
liquid that would strengthen the back.
bones OF the people OF Ottunlua III
go around here all week with a big
syringe and a bucket of that done.
Look at the ministers laughing. This
has been a great night and I've enjoy
ed it as much as you have. | think
I've covered the ground and Ill quit"
Monroe's Singing,
After closing the address Mr.. Mon
roe sang, Can the Lord Depend on
fou?' and taught the song to tha
and congregation. At the last
he sang the song which converted Mrs.
Muirhead, IF You Love Your Mother,
Meet Her i'll the Skies" A few min.
utes were devoted to the giving of the
invitation for the last time in the tab
ernacle and ten people responded,
which, with the four. converts, of the
afternoon brings the total number Of
conversions made during the revival
up to 1874. A solo by Prof. Gates
closed the meeting.
The collections taken in the after
noon and evening amounted to
$12S.S0.
Pat Fields, who resides near Jeffer-
son. is visiting at the home Of his
aunt. Mrs. Mary Meapy, III Shefield