The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-01-28
Supt. Humphrey Of Anti,SaIoon
League Declares Temperance
Fight Is Winning One
MANY SALOONS NOW CLOSED
Legislature to De Asked TO Investigate
Expenditure of Money by Liquor
Interests to Secure Favor
able Legislature

Ulysses Grant Humphrey, superinten
dent Of the Wisconsin Anti-Saloon
League made some hard knocks against
the liquor traffic at the union meeting
held at Park avenue church Sunday
evening when he took a crowd which
completely filed the auditorium of the
church, into his confidence and told
some of the things that the league had
done and were planning to do. He sub
mitted some figures which were exceed
ingly interesting to the men who have
been fighting in the cause of temperance
and the facts as stated must have been
an encouragement to the people who
are united against the saloon. There
was no abuse for the saloon men and
Mr.. Humphrey did not discuss the local
conditions. His arraignment of the
liquor business and the men fighting
for it's continuance was one wholly
along commercial and scientific lines.
The address by Superintendent Hump
hery was the closing address Of day
of temperance speeches in the local
the speeches did much to arouse the
public conscience in Kenosha and so
much enthusiasm was shown that it is
not improbable that Kenosha will JOIN
with other cities in the state in seek
ing no license campaign in connection
with the coming city election. Mr..
Humphrey said in part: eve are in the
midst of the mightiest reform move
ment of the ages and we verify be-
ieve that the overthrow of the bever-
age liquor business will be the greatest
single reform ever accomplished In
our country today the fight against the
liquor traffic is considered the greatest
fight since the overthrow of human
slavery"
He discussed at length the history Of
the fight against the liquor interests
declaring that the fight was now nearly
won and that within ten years there
would not be a legally licensed saloon
in the United States. 1T may take
God a thousand years to take a step''
said the speaker Fbut it is always
step forward and never backward. The
temperance movement is like a. splendid
century plant nourished through ages
but now bursting into full bloom We
seem now to be reaping the results Of
that century Of work. He declared
that the southern states were now in
the ranks of prohibition and that the
movement was rapidly spreading
throughout the United States. He
spoke Of Wisconsin as the second state
in the Union in the manufacture of
malt liquors with a, saloon for every
l65 people and for every 81 voters.
He declared that in this state 500
towns, villages and cities were prepar-
ing for no license campaigns at the
coming spring elections naming Osh-
kosh, Appleton, Eau Claire, Lacrosse,
Beloit and Marinette as the larger
cities in which the issue was to be
fought out this year. He said that it
had come to the place in Wisconsin
where the saloon men had become
afraid to trust the issue to the ballot
of the people and charged that the
saloon men were planning to buy the
Legislature and prevent the passage of
local option bill
''The Anti-Saloon League declared
Mr.. Humphrey, has closed five times
as many saloons in Wisconsin since last
July than there were in South Carolina
when that state went dry and it would
have closed five thousand more had it
not been for the ten day men sent out
by the Milwaukee brewers to fight the
movement" He charged brewers with
colonizing voters in Beloit, Stoughton
and other cities to prevent the success
OF no license campaign a year ago, but
declared that the people in these cities
were now so thoroughly aroused that it
would be impossible for the brewers
to win even by colonization. ''The
brewers may be able to buy this legis-
lature and prevent the passage of a
county option law" declared the
speaker, but / will tell you right now
they will never be able to buy another
legislature. =
Mr.. Humphrey insisted that the in
vestigation of the primary election SO
far as the senatorial campaign is con-
Germ, would not be the only investiga-
ton demanded from the legislature as
he said the Anti-Saloon League would
demand an investigation of the manner
IN which money had been spent by the
liquor dealers to elect men to the legis-
lature who would vote against the local
option bill. He declared that the
brewers in Wisconsin had raised mil