The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-19
OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
REPORTS OF PROGRESS OF THE
BATTLE AGAINST RUM.

Banish the Beast! Let the glad years re-
late
What shall become of our children!
For more than an hour at Carnegie
Hall yesterday afternoon Ex-Governor
Robert B. Glenn, of North Carolina,
laid himself out to Danish the Beast,
the rum Beast. and the United Church
Choir of New York, banked 400
strong on the stage, and the Lotus
Glee Club helped him on, while a
crowded house encouraged him by
Joining In the choruses of songs as
uncompromising as this:
Born in the wedlock of passion and drink.
Sin set aud sick ere they learn how to
think,
Damned to defeat from the cradles white
brink
What shall become of our children?
Governor Glenn was the leading
attraction at a meeting in the inter-
'ests of local option for cities, II
have not always been an absolute tee
totaler," said he. "I am ashamed to
say that l used to lay 1t to st. Paul
and take a little for my stomach s
sake and mine oft infirmities, and
that those oft infirmities became very
oft indeed. But not for many years
has drop of the cursed stuff gone
into my stomach. nor ever will. I've
seen what the demon can do. OF
seven of my college friends two are
in the grave, three are in insane asy-
lums and two are a disgrace to the
name of North Carolina, all through
that demon.
I've heard the means and groans
and shrieks of agony going up to
Almighty God from the asylums and
learned that thirty-three and one
third per cent. of the victims are
there through drink; I've visited the
old soldiers homes and learned that
fifty per cent. of the inmates are there
from the same cause, and almshouses
and learned that seventy per cent. of
those there sheltered are there from
this same curse.
Because l have seen these things,
and oh! my God! because I have felt
these things, I have dedicated the
rest of my life to the cause of fighting
this terrible, damning evil. CAP
plause) IF 1t brings crime instead
of law, disease instead of health, rags
instead of clothes, how dare you, how
can You stand for this curse in the
State of New York? l come to appeal
to the manhood and womanhood of
the Empire State and of the greatest
city in the world to get into action
here tonight, so that in FIVE, ten or
twenty years God shall be glorifed
and the curse of this temptation be
abolished
New York, whose forefathers
stood with Washington at Valley
Forge for freedom. who stood at
Yorktown; New York, who furnished
the bravest that confronted the South
from '61 to '65-how long will its
freemen submit to being governed
and controlled by the whisky ringi
Why does this whisky ring through
the Legislature keep its hands about
your throats? Because they know
that If they give you the right to vote
for local option in five years there
won't be a saloon in New York State,
and | believe New York itself would
be found right in line. North Caro-
lima, which in 1881 went 100000 for
liquor, in 1907 went As 900 for God,
all through the progress of local op-
tion. That's all you want right here,
and you'll call me back once more
before die to celebrate with you the
victory and saloonless State.
IF whisky helps business, as they
tell you, why don't you get a drunken
barber to shave you on Wednesday or
Saturday night? Or you here hire
drunken chauffeur? Drink up a dol
lar? I'd better throw it into the fire,
for then it's gone; but If drink 1t
down I may go home and beat my
wife or get into the calaboose. I
drink up dollar and there goes a
good cotton hat, doesn't 1t? l drink
up seventyfve cents and there goes
my shirt. So and there goes my shoes,
and I drink up SO and away goes my
l amt going any fur
ther!
"Gaston County. N. c., in 1866
had thirty-eight Government distiller-
les and lot more that weren't sched-
uled, no sch ools, hardly a church, no
roads worth speaking Of, and only
two factories. But ten years ago the
people threw out rum, and now there
isn't distillery nor groggery. there
are schools for all the boys and girls,
churches are being reared to Gods
glory, macadam roads run every
where, and there are forty-three fac
tories employing 5000 citizens.
Which will you have?
I'm Maine / said AT last. thank
God, I've found place where 1t takes
guide to get drink! Why here in
New York 1t takes a guardian to keep
"a man from getting drink even
when he doesn't want one! In North
Carolina there is one criminal to
every 1900 population. In New
Jersey. the same size State, there is
one criminal to every $50 persons.
Why this difference? Strong drink.
II there could be such thing as
tear in heaven 1t would be shed by
me II at the last day / saw my son
come to the gate and be sent down
and heard his wall saying his blood
was upon my head because ! had
voted against the suppression of this
liquor iniquity Thank God that
can't happen. Sixty per cent of the
stranded women began their course
through the vice mill of strong drink,
and eighty per cent. of the stranded
men. Is 1t my son that's down there
in crime; is 1t your daughter kicked
from brothel, too low even for such
"a vile place as that? Do your duty
as God has prospered you. and don't
leave this house till the pure breath
and the sweetness of the benedlction
has fallen upon New York
Sun.