Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-24
Sundays Famous Booze Sermon
Ben Q Men Sunday Afternoon

The text Of Mr.. Sundays sermon on
sBooze" is as follows:
I'm the eighth chapter of Matthew
we have one of the strongest scenes
In all the scriptures. There are two
possessed Of devils, and while the dew
lis in the men are crying for Jesus
to leave them Jesus commands the
devils in the men to come out, and
the devil obeys the command Of Jesus
to enter into herd of swine that are
herding on the hillside. This is the only
record we have that Jesus ever granted
the request or prayer of devils. He did
It to the destruction Of the hogs, but
the everlasting salvation Of men.
Hurt Business.
"Then the fellows that kept the hogs
went back to town and told the pus-
sey old fellows that owned the hogs,
and those old fellows came out to
Jesus and told him to take his dis
ciples and to leave the city, because
he was hurting their business. A man
said to me: I don't think that was a
very nice thing for Jesus to do, to
come along and interfere with legit-
innate business. God has told the Jews
not to buy or to traffic in pork, or eat
1t, and Jesus came down and was in
keeping with the Mosaic law
Gods Revenue Officers.
when / was DOWN south was
standing on the street corner in Nash
vile, Tenn, and saw four wagons
loaded with stills and worms and ket-
tiles and pipes and ON those wagons
were men in blue uniforms.
81 said: What is that?'
".They are United States revenue
officers and they have been in the
moonshine district, and confscated a
lot of the dirty business. They are talk
ing 1t down to the government junk
heap, for all the copper and scrap
Jesus was Gods revenue officer.
Those Jews were in business that
God told them to have nothing to do
with. So when the devils were cast
out of the men into the hogs, the hogs
were drowned. So what man had en-
joyed, after a fashion, made the hogs
commit suicide. They could not stand
1t and leaped into the sea.
Reasonable Perhaps.
"A man says that he thinks that
was a queer request for the devils to
make.
If was devil would rather live
In a good decenl hog, than some men
that have been unfortunate enough
to meet.
So those fat, pussey. old fellows
came out to where Jesus was, and
walked up to the brow of the hill and
saw the hogs, bottom side up. They
told Jesus to leave the country.
They said:
"You are hurting our business"
Eyes, but the men are all right, said
Jesus.
I'VE have no interest in that" was
the reply.
Attitude Of Saloon.
That is the attitude of the liquor
traffic toward the church and state,
and government, and the temperance
backbone to fight the most damnable
tell-soaked, corrupt, institution that
ever wriggled out of hell and fastened
itself on the public.
am not third party prohibition
ast! I am temperance republican
from the farthest hair down to my
toes.
: Who are the men that fight the
whisky business in the south? They
are the democrats! They have driven
the business from Alabama. They
have driven 1t from Georgia, and
from Mississippi and Tennessee and
out of 119 counties in Kentucky they
have driven it from every county but
-four. They have driven it out Of 1877
counties in Texas.
: 1t is the rock-ribbed democratic
south that is fighting the saloon. They
started this fight that is sweeping like
fire over the state of Iowa today. y
The democratic party of Florida
has put temperance plank in its
platform, and the republican party
of Iowa would nail that plank in
the,- platform if they thought that
1t u ould carry the election.
Prosperity VS.. Poverty.
The democrats hate the business
with all their power, and it is simply
a matter of decency and manhood, ir-
respective Of politics. 1t is simply
prosperity against poverty, sobriety
against drunkenness, honesty against
thievipg, heaven against hell and in
dquity.
Don't you want to see men sober?
British, vomiting, staggering men
transformed into respectful citizens?
mo-" said a saloonkeeper, ito hell
with men. We are interested in our
business-we have no interest in hui
manity."
No Argument for II.
After all is said that can be said
upon the liquor traffic, it must be adj
united that it has a degrading influ-
ence upon the individual, the family,
nOliticS husinass and 1,pop oyor,,tb Il, q
that 1t touches in the old world The
time has long gone by when there are
any grounds for arguments against it.
There Is just one prime reason why
the saloon has not been knocked into
hell, and that is the false statement,
that the saloons are needed to help
Tighten the taxes. The saloon business
has never paid! It has cost fifty times
: more for the saloon than the revenue
derived from 1t.
You listen today, and If / can not
peel the bark off that damnable, stink
ing, rotten fallacy, 1 will pack nv
trunk and leave.
How II Pays.
The wholesale and retail LIQUOR
trade OF Iowa pays every year $500. 600
On licenses Then If that is no draw
back it ought to reduce the taxation
% cents a head. If sthe saloon is neces-
sary to pay the taxes and they paw
100000 On taxes, 1t ought to reduce
them Is cents head,
A Defiance.
But no. The whisky business has
increased taxes $i.700000 instead OF
reducing them, and defy any whis-
ky man on Gods dirt to show one town