The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-10-28
Extracts From Garry Nations Lee
ture.

When Mrs, Garry A. Nation recent
ly lectured in Leon at the opera
house the subject of her lecture was
How l Smash, Why l Smash, When
l Smash"
She paid her respects to the repub
lican party especially and also took
rap at the democrats. We cannot
give her lecture in full, but give
few choice extracts:
81 am different from most lectur-
ers. l make political speeches. l
want you to understand that politics
rules all things. Jesus Christ was
the first pure politician of this dis
pensation There are only two
political parties; mat of right and
that of evil Jesus Christ is the
| leader of one, the devil of the other.
Heaven is the goal for the righteous,
hell the gathering place for the
wicked. You can take your choice"
Il never preach temperance. That
word is a snare. The distiller, the
brewer and the saloon keeper can
consistently join with the preacher
in that catch word You must lay
your axe at the root of the evil
prohibition. You don't have temper
ance laws against stealing, you don't
have temperance laws against killing,
cheating or lying, although men will
lie, steal, kill and cheat-but you
have prohibitory laws. Manufacture
ing and selling liquor is morally
wrong, therefore it should be pro-
hibited. All good laws are prohib-
tive. There is no temperate stealing
or temperate killing, neither should
there be temperate drinking or vice
of any kind licensed by law Jesus
Christ is prohibitionist, the devil
is the leader of the licensed crowd. .
81 don't like tobacco any better
than l do liquor. The body is the
temple of the soul Do you suppose
God is going to enter the soul of one
of your old tobacco polluted bodies
and abide there? Not by any means
He chooses clean places to live. Be-
SIDES tobacco makes the lungs filthy
poisons the blood, and makes one
smell bad-oh, those horrid, old to-
bacco using, sinking men! Girls
uon't marry tobacco user. Some
lday he is liable to become the father
of an idiotic offspring-the victim O.
tobacco poison. And you old gray
. headed church members. You are
deluding yourselves if you think
you will ever get to heaven with tina
wad in your mouths. The Lord will
say to you. Depart from me, 20,
nicotine fend, I never knew you!
"The difference between the repub
lican party and the democratic part.
is simply the difference between two
thieves-one is caught with thu
stolen goods on his person and thu
other is waiting for an opportunit.
to steal"
| My home is at Medicine Lodge
Kansas. Southeast of our town g
miles was Kiowa. Here is where tn
dives were. l had warned them t.
desist from illegal traffic The repub
lican officials from the prosecutin;
attorney up to the governor woult
not do a thing to suppress this law
lessness. One afternoon l drove owe
there and demolished three saloon
with rocks. This was before 1 re
sorted to the Ratchet method.
created talk-an agitation, an
while it was not dignifed, it, wa
what / wanted. When the people ar
aroused they act, and this is jus
what the whiskey men did not want.
II 81 was prosecuted for maliciousl
destroying property. Had they state
it right they would have said l de
stroyed malicious property"
MY father wrote my name in tn
old family bible, when ! was born i
/ Kentucky, Garry A. not Carrie A
| With right methods we can carry
nation
i Talk about the republican part
being prohibition party! / hav
been in Jail 33 times. And every ia
has been republican Jail. And ever
| Judge who has sentenced me has bee
republican judge
/ u notice you clap your hands. 70
think the saloons ought to be smash
ed. Who is responsible for the gov
! eminent license system, the distil
ers, the brewerles and the saloons