Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-08

we nave one OF IEl6 strongest scenes
In all the scriptures. There are two
men possessed of devils, and Jesus
commands the devils in the men to
come out, and the devils request per-
mission from Jesus to enter into d
herd of swine that are herding on the
hillside. This is the only record we
have that Jesus ever granted the re-
quest or prayer of devils. He did it
to the destruction of the hogs, but the
everlasting salvation of men.
Reasonable Perhaps.
A man says that he thinks that was
a queer request for the devils TO
make.
II was a devil would rather live
that have been unfortunate enough
to meet.
Those fat, pusse..-, old fellows that
owned the hogs came out to where
Jesus was, and walked up TO the brow
OF the hill and saw the hogs. bottom
side UP. They told Jesus to leave the
country. They said
you are hurting our business
yes, but the men are all right
said Jesus.
I'VE have no interest in that, let
the men go to hell" was the reply.
And if I'd have been Jesus I'd have
sent those old Holsters to hell, just
as He did.
Attitude of Saloon.
That is the attitude of the liquor
and government. and the temperance
L.
backbone to fight the most damnab,e
hell-soaked. corrupt. institution that
ever wriggled out of hell and fastened
itself on the public.
am not third party Prohibition.
list, am temperance Republican
from that farthest hair down to nv
toes.
Who are the men that fight the
whisky business in the south? They
are the Democrats They have driven
the business from Alabama They
have driven it from Georgia. and
from Mississippi and Tennessee and
out Of 119 counties in Kentucky they
have driven it from every county bur
four They have driven 1t out of l57
counties III Texas.
It Is the rock-ribbed Democratic
south that is fighting the saloon They
started this fight that is sweeping like
fire over the state of Illinois today.
The Democratic party of Florida has
put temperance plank in It's platform,
and the Republican party of Illinois
would nail that plank in their plat
form If they thought that it would
carry the election
1 Prosperity vs.. Poverty
The Democrats hate the business |
with all their power, and it is simply
2. matter of decency and manhood, IL.
respective of politics. It is simply
against poverty, sobriety !
against drunkenness, honesty against
thieving, heaven against hell and in |
iuuity.
Don't You want to see men sober?
British, vomiting. staggering men
into respectahel citi-
zens?
No said saloon keeper. ito hell
with men. We are interested In our
business-we have no interest in hui
mainly. So say to the saloonkeeper
TO hell with your business
No Argument for 1t.
After all is said that can be said
upon the liquor traffic, 1t must be ad-
mitted that it has q degrading influ-
ence upon the individual. the family,
politics, business, and upon everything
that 1t touches in the old world. The
time has long gone by when there are
any grounds for arguments against It.
There Is just one prime reason why
the saloon has not been knocked into
hell, and that is the false statement,
that the saloons are needed to help
tighten the taxes. The saloon bust
ness has never paid. 1t has cost fifty
times more for the saloon than the
revenue derived from it.
You listen today and if cannot peel
the bark off that damnable sinking
rotten fallacy will pack my trunk and
leave
Listen! l say that is the biggest
lie ever belched out of hell
How Il Pays.
The wholesale and retail LIQUOR
trade of Iowa pays every year $500, 900
In licenses. Then If that is no draw
back it ought to reduce the taxation
rs cents a head. If the saloon is
necessary to pay the taxes and they
pay 100000 in taxes, it ought to re.
dnce them % cents a head.
A Defiance.
But no. The whisky business has
increased taxes $1,700000 instead of
reducing them, and defy any whisky
man ON Gods dirt to show one town
that has saloons, where the taxes ar,
lower than where they do not have
the saloon. defy you to show me an
instance.
Listen Say, seventy-five per cent
OF our idiots come from intemperate
parents eighty per cent of the crime
is committed by men while under the
influence Of liquor, ninety per cent of
the adult criminals are whisky made.
The Chicago Tribune kept track for
ten years and found that 53,556 muir
ders were committed by men under the
influence of of liquor.
What it Nerves to.
Prof Wiley said:
Why, whisky can strengthen, and
is needed to nerve men.''
Certainly, Prof Wiley. 1t will nerve
me to murder men on the highway. 1t
will nerve you to stab my wife, and to