The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-04-23
PROHIBITIONIST'S CONVENTION
Marshall County Prohibitionist's Meet and Nom
mate County Ticket COMMITTEE is Re-
organized--- Michael J. Tanning
Delivers Interesting Address

The Prohibitionists of Mar
shall county, met in the Band
room at 10:30 Tuesday morning
to nominate a county ticket. The
following are the nominations:
Representative--Wm. Alleman,
Walnut township; Sheriff-Jo-
seph L.Scheuerman, Union treas
urer-Albert Vermilllion, Green !;
surveyor,-F. Hahn, German;
coroner-Dr. Geo. F. Wall, Ger
man; commr. 1st district-Allen
Maurer, 2nd district, VIM. Frib-
ley, Bourbon.
AS delegates to the state con-
veption, VIM. Groom of Argos
and F. r. Hahn of Bremen were
chosen, and F. Laudeman of Brex
men and Joseph Losier of Bre-
men. alternates.
The county committee was re-
organized and the following were
chosen, County chairman F. M.
Andrews, Plymouth; secretary
and treasurer, ]. w. Whitaker,
Argos. Township chairmen-
North, Polk, Allen Maurer !;
German, F. R. Hahn; Bourbon,
Tippecanoe, Hiram Horn; Wal
nut, ]. c. Rupe; Union, Prof. |.
5. Hahn; Green, VIM. Grooms !;
West, Isaac Splitter; Center, ]. D.
Williams.
Efforts of the Anti-Saioon
league were discounted by Hon.
NJ. J.. Tanning of Philadelphia in
his address before the prohibition
county convention Tuesday after
noon at the Christian church in
this city when he declared the
work of the anti-saloon organiza-
ton. while valuable in an educa-
tional way, could accomplish
nothing permanent or satisfactory
and that in its present methods
were working in the wrong direc-
ton. He said the credit for the
temperance victories in the south
is due to the Women's Christian
Temperance Union and to the
prohibitionists.
Mr.. Tanning, who is one of the
most eminent orators in the pro-
hibition gsnization, was given
an enthusiastic greeting when he
was introduced by Mr.. Grooms
of Argos and he opened with the
declaration that prohibitionists
wanted prohibition in fact; not
merely prohibition on paper.
"A criminal law" said Mr..
Tanning, "is of little effect with
out a government in sympathy
with it to enforce it. You might
as well elect horse thief to en-
force the law against stealing
horses as to elect a saloon keeper
to enforce the laws regulating
liquor selling. There is as much
sense in electing saloon keeper
as in electing his man, and you
might as we'll elect his man as to
elect his party. Both the old
parties are trying to catch the sa-
loon mans vote, and they are
both saloon mems parties.
Our Anti-Saloon league
friends tell us that forty millions
of people are now living under
prohibition, and that prohibition
is spreading" he said. THAT is
prohibition on paper. The COM
missioner of internal revenue
tells us that the American people
consumed more liquor per capita
last year, and the government de-
rived greater revenue from the
manufacture and sale of liquor
than ever before. The increase in
the revenue receipts in 1907 over
1906 was the greatest in the ma
tons history.
IL want prohibition that means
prohibition, and to get that we
must have not only prohibitive
laws, but a government in SYM
pathy with those laws.
''The Anti-Saloon league tells
you that public sentiment is fore
ing prohibition. Public sentiment,
bosh. Public sentiment does not
govern and never did. Public
sentiment in Ireland, where /
was born, is in favor of home
rule, but public sentiment does
not govern, and there is no home
rule. Public sentiment south of
Mason and Dixon's line was in
favor of slavery, but slavery was
wiped out. Why? But public
sentiment does not govern, and
government does. Public senti-
ment is a fckle, inconStant, feeble
thing; we stone a garrison and
hang a John Brown today, and
build monuments to them tomcr-
row. Legislation should be based
not on public sentiment, but on
immutable right and justice, and
laws thus based will educate pub
lie sentiment. Law is the edu-
Gator, not public sentiment.
THE talk of government of the
people, by the people, for the peo-
pie. is all bosh. 1t was bosh when
Lincoln said it. We never had
government of the people, by the
people for | take it that women