The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-05-31

River. Chickamaugua, Mission Ridge.
Atlanta, Franklin. vicksburg, Gettysr'
burg and the battles Of the Wilder
ness, like Marathon and Salamis and
Platas OF Ancient Greece, they are
imperishable.
Rest on. embalmed and sainted dead.
Dear as the blood they gave.
No impious foot steps here shall tread
/ The heritage of their graves.
Nor shall the glory be forgot
While time her record keeps,
Or honor points the Hallowed spot
Where valor produly sleeps"
Nothing 10 Ever Settled Until Il 10
Settled Right.
The menace to our civilization is
not the race question; is not the ques-
ton OF foreign emigration; nor Is it
the question of capital and labor. It
4 is the question of drink. 1t is the
domination of the liquor interests in
our cities. This is the burning ques-
ton before the peoples of the United
States. And it will continue to be the
question of the hour until conditions
have been changed for the better. To
this condition must be ascribed most
of the degradation of our time. 1t il
an irrepressable conflict, and with un-
daunted vigor, the fight between the
temperance and the liquor forces must
go on. fhe old South has declared
the SALON an outlaw, while we of the
North are put to shame, when 1t Is
pointed out that in the city of New
York, alone. there are one thousand
more saloons than in the fourteen
southern states. And yet, we are not
laggards, for witness state after state
declaring against this evil.
! The Nation Takes a Hand.
On the 18th day of February last,
congress incorporated into the penal
code, the interstate shipping bill.
which effectually does three things:
/. 1t prohibits C. o. d. shipments.
2. It prohibits delivery to fictitious
consignees.
| 3. 1t requires that all packages Of
liquor for interstate shipment shall
be plainly marked. and designating
the contents and the consignee.
| The liquor interests may tell you
that prohibition does not prohibit, and
that restrictive legislation does not re-
strict. If this is true, why should they
does 1t so happen that when a state
Legislature convenes, the paid lobby
lists Of the LIQUOR interests are there?
And why should their papers pour out
such bitter volumes of abuse upon
men and women who happen not to be
Of their way Of thinking. Out in the
open field Of life. where all the real
battles are fought, stand two armies,
two mighty forces. On one side is the
liquor interests. on the other side is
the interest Of home and country. In
which army, citizens of Richmond, are
you fighting today? A city that is
set upon a hill cannot be hid. Though
the liquor men may boast of millions
OF money, grant 1t; though they may
boast OF their able lawyers, grant it.,
they have them. And though they are
backed by 100000 saloon keepers and
million faithful, though deluded pat
rons, yet over and against them all
are men and women with moral cour-
/
on their side. No one can look, with
undimmed eyes. upon the dark pic
lures the habitues Of the modern sa-
loon presents daily to our view. II
was Lady Macbeth, when trying to
wash from her hands the stains of
blood of Duncan. her kinsman and
! benefactor, whose murder she had sug-
gested and urged, cryed out in despair,
Out damned spot! Out, say! What,
will these hands ne'er be clean!
Here's the smell of the blood still! All
the perfumes of Arabia will not sweet
en- this little hand" say to the sa-
loon, Out! damned spot! To the sa-
loon keeper I say, All the waters of
the seven seas cannot wash from your
/ hands the stain of the sin and misery
you have caused in the world by your
accursed business.
The War Governor Of indiana.
Side by side with Lincoln, stands
another name dear to every Indiana
man who fought in the war. A year
ago. in passing Monument Place in
Indianapolis, saw little girl pause
on the sidewalk in front of a statue.
She looked up into the clean. strong
bronze face. then went up to the
statue. balanced her basket on her
knee and read half aloud Indiana S
War Governor 1861 to 1866" then
traced her finger over each letter and
the figures: then taking her basket
on her arm. hurried away. This was
a child of the people. with a great
love in her heart and mystery in her
soul There were packages and flow
ers in her basket and something re-
minded me OF the time when Morton,
with basket on his arm. going about
the same city from bank TO bank and
from citizen to citizen. borrowing
money on his own promise to pay,
that Indiana's soldiers at the front
might not fail. He loved the soldier
boys as his own sons and they loved
him as father.
Let me read this record. Three In.
diana regiments fought at Bull Run !;
the Saith was in the last skirmish OF
the war: the 21st landed Ben Butler
at New Orleans: the 18th put old
glory on the bloody parapet at Fort
Wagner: the 18th and Seth were the
first to reach the bullet swept crest
of Mission Ridge; and the 18th and