The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-12-01
W. c. T. U. Convention.


dent Stevens said:
"a man came to be governor oil
North Carolina who declared the
Temperance issue to be greater than
all the other issues relating to the
public eal;Iand he declared further
that he would work with the Wo.
mans Christian Temperance Union
in the campaign to rid his state of
the legalized liquor traffic. That
man was Robert B. Glenn. governor
of the great state of North Caro-
iIna."
AS the ex-governor advanced to
speak, he was greeted with a storm
of applause that swept from plat
form and floor to the topmost rows
in the balcony, waving flags, banners
and handkerchiefs lending color to
the tribute of 5000 voices raised in
acclaim. He said:
Nothing that renders men less
able to give to their community and
to their God their physical and men
tai and moral powers, can help that
community to glorify that God.
When the enemy tempted our Lord
and Master, and, trying to entrap
Him, asked Him whether they should
pay tribute to Caesar, He said, Bring
me your tribute money! and they
brought Him penny, and He looked
at it and said, Whose image is this?'
They said, 1t is Caesars Then
these immortal words fell from His
lips; Render unto Caesar the things
that are Caesars and unto God the
things that are Gods Caesar stands
for Nebraska; Caesar stands for
America; Caesar stands for your
state and for my state, and the word
of our Master is to render unto our
state and to render unto our country
what justly belongs to the state and
to the country, And what belongs
to our state and our country? Every
muscular power. every mental ener-
gy, every moral influence. The man
who puts himself in such condition
that he cannot render unto Caesar
the things that are Caesars, is that
much less a patriot. Any man who
becomes besotted and drunken and
destroys his physical, mental and
moral powers, fails to be patriot.
Any man who stands for any infu-
ence in our land that brings poverty
and shame and ruin and death upon
that country or that state, lacks just
that much of being a patriot.
sThen, my friends, | ask you, will
the whisky traffic bring crime? Will
it bring shame? Will it bring ruin?
Will it bring death? Is there one of
you that dare to deny it? Then if
you vote for it, then if you work for
it, then if you give your influence for
it, | stand here tonight and brand
the man who helps to bring that in
fanny and that shame upon US, as
that much less a patriot in the land
and state in which he lives.
Nov, for arguments sake, let US
admit that prohibition is going to-
add a little bit to your tax. Some
poor man in Nebraska, on account
of all these licenses being done away
with. will have to pay twenty-five
cents year more; some of you fifty
cents; same of you a dollar; some
five dollars; some that God has pros
pered, hundred dollars; some that
God has made richer, five hundred
dollars; some that are millionaires,
possibly a thousand dollars. You
want to save that twenty-five cents,
don't you? You want to save that
fifty cents, that dollar, that hundred
dollars, that five hundred dollars,
that thousand dollars?
Now, oyer on this hand, | will put
the body, will put the mind, will
put the immortal soul of your pure
eyed child, your sweet little girl,
your manly, noble little boy, who
might be influenced by this curse of
strong drink, to drink, and drinking,
become drunkard. and the drunk
ard die, and in dying be damned. Is