The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-08
C. 5. HOWARD
The SPEAKER
Addresses a Large Gather
ing at the Tent.
APPEAL TO VOTERS
To Stand by the Advocates
of Temperance.
A Speaker Of Renoun and Wide Rx-
perience Is Secured Secured to
Speak In the Present Fight.

NlHOoh' ~. fOWdTu spoke at tne
tent last night to very large
crowd. Mr.. Howard said In part:
'In the house where / was enter
tanned in Chicago, a little boy psked
me this question, How do you feel
when you begin to speak?' ans
wered always feel at the begin
ming like | am going to have a
good time. II am going to give you
a good ride on the wnter wagon.
Ten weeks ago l began a ten weeks
campaign and have spoken every
day and night for ten weeks. While
on the Pacific colst found people
from every state in the Union. |
was born in one state, baptized in
another, fell in love in the third
and got married I'm the fourth.
1.-The swiftest moving vehicle on
the face of the earth is the water
wagon, never since the world be-
Gun has water made such rapid
strides. The stone which the build
ers rejected has become the corner
stone. The water wagon is running
down the devils saloon. say, sir,
that the tragedy of the reform is
that the good men say II can't be
done. II is the good men Of Marion
who are crying that tine law can't
be enforced. Like Sanballet of old
and others in the time of Nehemiah
they tried to discourage the build
ing of the walls of Jerusalem.
Thomas A. Edison did not get dis
couraged, he toiled and prayed
three 6lys and three nights without
eating and then the light came. Do
you know what Is the matter with
the good people of Marion that they
don't wake up? If 1 can say any
thing to wake up the good people OF
Aplrion, ! will be glad. When |
say the good people, do not mean
Methodists or Boptists, but the men
of Marion who are Christians and
those who are not Christians. The
mother OF the man who built the
first locomotive said, John, you
can never make II 60 But when
John got on ard made it go, she
ran along crying, John, you can
never make II stop. That is like
the water wagon, you can never
make 1t stop.
"Horace Greedy wrote In the New
York Tribune, away with all this
tomfoolery about license for selling
whiskey. He said let them pay $1O,-
900 license Ind put in a minister 10
tend bar.
THE water wagon represents the
! Kingdom of God, why don't you get
on? Some say will get on and
ride when you get load on. When
eVer a reform wagon becomes 4
band wagon, everybody VI nts to get
on. Where was the Abolltionist
when Wendell Phillips was being
stoned? He was under the wagon
seat. The impossible often happens.
| think the Divine hand Is on the
work The criminal always gets
pious when he sees the gallows.
The saloon Is commencing to get
good. / don't believe much In a
death bed repentance. The brew
cllSS are OHcllHS w NoliplOhIoc
with the churches. The liquor traf-
fic Is beginning to quote scripture in
a time of trouble The liquor
| traffic tried to blacken the character
OF Abraham Lincoln and the Saint
ed John Wesley, and even saying
that tire wine that Jesus made at
the wededing feast at Cana of Gal
lilee was intoxicating, trying TO de-
fame the character OF our Lord
Jesus Christ. How Is the church
of God going to get more power
, by using what she has? When the
church of God gets a baptism OF the
| Holy Ghost she will burn up every
i brewery and saloon in the world
/ The saloon is going to get good they
say by improving the saloon and
have sons and daughters. dom
want any improved saloons in this
country. II II is true that saloons
are necessary evil for the town,
want horns on the saloon keeper ant
the devil behind the bar.
"If you vote for the sauoon and
your boy goes to the saloon and get'
drunk and dies from the effects 81
drink, you get the beer wagon fol
a hearse, the buns of the saloon fol
pail bearers and the saloon keeper
TO preach his funeral and then try
to comfort the poor mother by say
ing our boy was a good boy ant
helped the saloon keepers. to pay
taxes.
81 hold every man responsible fo
the town where he lives. The bes
saloon is the worst saloon. II wa
going TO fight the devil, woulC
like to have him look like the dew
II. No where will be end thi
speech? never did end a speecl
so this speech will never end"
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