Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-29
MEETING IN INTEREST
OF GOOD GOVERNMENT PACKS
METHODIST CHURCH.
SPEAKER GIVES RoUsING
ANTt-SALooN ADDRESS
Recited Scientific and Statistical Ar
suments Against intemperance and
the Open saloon-Favors Local OPP
ton Principle-Was Stanton Meeting
and 1000 Stanton Votes There.

the First Congregational church of
Chicago, arose before an audience OF
1900 men, filling the Methodist church
to the very doors, Sunday evening, he
remarked facetiously that he supposed
the men of Marshalltown were in the
habit of turning out in such numbers to
Sunday evening services, and that no
local political interest was in their
minds. Everybody laughed. He then
explained that a great many sugges-.
tions had been made to him as to what
he should say, but that he was going 70
give them just what he had. He re-.
marked, eff you can't stand what I
have to say, what will you do with
Billy Sunday when he comes?' He
then proceeded to deliver an argument
in favor of temperance, local option and
no saloon.
DR.. Bartlett resorted to the great 'cri-
ses of history, notably the American
revolution and anti-slavery war, to
prove that it is the church which leads
every great reform i'm government.
That the men with nerve, to take a
stand for morality when such stand res
quires sacrifice and hardship, are al
ways recruited from the churches. +
He appealed to every good man IN
his audience to come out of the high
grass and stand for something. If The
saloons are right, every man who
thinks so should stand up and fight for
them, and if they are wrong then ev-
cry man who thinks they are wrong
should openly support his belief on the
streets and at the polls. For Gods
sake, be men and get to work for what
sleep in the Amen corner" shouted the
speaker
But now, really" Mr. Bartlett asked,
would any of you men invite saloon
keeper to address YOUR children at a
Sunday school? Why wouldn't your
Science has fully established the
damaging effects of liquor upon mans
physical organs" asserted the speaker
and he related many tests and expert
ments made by scientists proving the
fact beyond cavil. He then quoted sta
tisttcs showing that the liquor traffic
was great enough in volume to equal
the cost of running the national gov
eminent, state, town and local govern
ments combined: that it took out of the
pockets of the people more money than
the Standard Oil monopoly and put
nothing back into their homes but woe,
disease, insanity, poverty and misery.
He cited the tremendous growth of
dry" territory during the past ten
years which had been at the rate of
1856 acres per minute Even Kentucky,
he said, with $160,OOO,00O invested in
distilleries, had only four wet counties
in the state.
From his experience in studying the
saloon problem in cities all over the
United States, from reliable statistics
of saloon business in his possession,
DR.. Bartlett said that the saloons of
Marshalltown were taking from the
$4,000 per year; that if there were
twenty-one of them the homes of this
little city and trading vicinity here
contributing $294,0o0 per annum to the
saloons for booze. He then predicted
that in ten years time the citizens of
Marshalltown will have risen up and
will have thrown off tax of this mag
nitude which has been squeezed from
the grocery and shoe bills of needy
families and even stripped from the
backs of llalf-clad children.
In closing he urged men to vote their
convictions and not hide in the dark
on so terrible a public question.
The meeting was held under the aus
pices of the Stanton men and was
known fully as a Stanton meeting, yet
there were number of Ingledue men
present. 1t has been conservatively es-
timated by the ushers that there must
have been at least 900 Stanton votes
there in that one meeting.