The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-15

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ON the statute books that no innkeeper
should permit a man 10 drink In his
/ place late on Saturday or on Sunday.
/ In case of conviction. the man who
violated the law would have 10 pay
/ the fine In 1857 Georgia enacted a
\ law that no tradesman should be
granted n license II he were able TO
make a LIVING by common means OF
labor. South Carolina and Virginia
! also passed a law providing that no
minister of thr gospel should give him
self up to drinking.
The movement against the liquor
traffic grew steadily until, I'm the past
% years. 40 different and important
t"pp "7uCe societies have been form
ed The time has come 20 utilize pub
lie sentiment Temperance reform
can De brought about by united eff.
fort I'm Kentucky 9S out OF ll9 coun-
ties have excluded the saloon. The
spread OF the temperance wave In
other southern states is we'll known.
Out OF IS counties in Ohio, 62 have
stamped out the saloon; Indiana has
20 ldry' counties cut of a total of 81;
in Illinois, quarters of the terri.
tory il dry. There are Al 500, 900 peo-
pie I'm The United States living on soil
where tho saloon has been abolished.
One-fourth of the wet territory i'm this
country is in the large centers Of pop
ulation. There are 1855 counties in
the United States OF this number
$50 are under the nolicense system.
There are no saloons I'm 30 counties
In Michigan. q counties are To vote
on the liquor question this spring. and
nine other counties that are already
dry will vote, too
THE people in the large cities.
where the liquor traffic is the strong
est. must be reached. The truth will
help create a great conscience OH this
question. Then the people as whole
will decide n the salOon-the enemy
Of the church and every moral insti-
tuition Of the land-shall be allowed 10
continue In business"
The Rev Purley A. Baker, superin-
tendeut OF the American Anti Saloon
league, commented on the fact that
Amos Musselman. one Of the Candi-
dates for the gubernatorial nomlna-
ton. has declared himself IN favor Of
prohibition, I'm an address in the North
Woodward NJ Z. church
1T speaks well for a community"
he said. when public sentiment is
educated to such a high pitch that a
candidate for governor makes the
question an issue in his campaign"
The speaker declared that the sa-
loon Is the cause OF child labor, and
attacked the United States internal
revenue system as one OF the chief
factors in the spread OF the liquor
business.
During the civil war" he contin.
ucd. delegates from the saloon inter
ests urged congress TO let them ship
products from state to state in return
for being taxed President Lincoln
opposed IT, Congress said II was only
war measure and would be cancell-
ed later. but after the wpr Lincoln
was shot and congress forgot its
promise
Rep. J.. G.. Cramton. of Lapeer, one
OF the authors OF the Warner-Cramton
Jaw was the speaker in the Norm
Woodward Baptist church. He adVo.
Gated the abolition OF the saloon. alto.
Cether. as the only means of solving
the liquor problem.
The WarnerCramton law is not ali
ideal one" he admitted. but it is the
lest 10 date 1t enables the regulation
Of the sale of liquor in a measure, but
prohibition is better"
Rep Cramton declared that 10000
people are killed yearly by drink In
the United States Figuring each
mans earning capacity at $500 per
year. the loss to the producing ca
pacity OF the country is $S6.000, 600 per
wear he pOinted out
Perry T. Powers of Cadillac. spoke
IN the First Baptist church. He
dwelt on the business aspect Of the
saloon evil.
The Rev George w Young, Of Loui%-
Vile. Ky, assistant national super'n.
tendent Of the American Anti-Saloon
league. speaking in ne Woodward-ave.
Baptist church, declared that churches
as competitors with saloons had
proven a failure The church. he said,
might better direct its efforts toward
converting the heather OF India than
10 attempt TO carry he gospel into the
slum districts OF DIR American cities.
He spoke encouragingly. however %
the fight against the saloon in Michi-
gan and predicted that the time is
close at hand when Michigan will go
dry"
Tonight the speakers will be enter
tanned at a banquet in the y NJ. c. y,