The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-25

fellow. but do blame the govern
ment that licenses the traflc."
He said that the next dark cloud
over the country was the criminal
among the citizens and no said that
the liquor trafac was the cause Of
all Of this.
The next black cloud was gambling.
He said that gambling could not ex-
list without the liquor business and
that the time when men gamble was
when they were three sheets in the
wind.
Another man at this junoture be-
gan to talk In the audience but his
that surrounded him.
whenever you put . mouth in
front Of almost nothing" said Mr..
Stuart. "the mouth is bound to 20 of.
Now know that II that man was
sober. he would not interrupt q
preacher when he Is talking"
The speaker said that lots Of men
would not take sides because they
were afraid 1t might hurt their bust
Ness. They were like the old negro
preacher. 'Jrst q nuisance on the
question"
After the Police.
Again speaking on the question
that prohibition will not prohibit, he
said: You put a policeman with the
liquor interests behind his admins
tration. after a blind tiger and had
Just as soon set hound with wax
legs after an asbestos cat In hell"
"But. I don't blame the policeman
much, he has had his orders"
In speaking Of the matter of liquor
traffic helping business, Mr.. Stuart
said that II you place on the counter
Of the grocer. the dry goods man
or the shoe man, all the money that
Is placed on the counters Of the sa-
looms. It would enable the merchants
to easily pay all the taxes and then
have money to send their families
to Europe.
The speaker said that some Of the
pictures he had drawn Of the squalor
and and poverty Of a drunkard's home
had been taken from his own boy
hood Through sobriety and earliest
ness" he said, 'I have built up a
home where there are no liquor shad-
ows unless they are distant shadows"
Mr. Stuart said chat he was not
after greed or money and that he had
given up platform offers Of $3.50
night to come into the south where
prohibition campaigns we're on and
work for the cause.
He said In conclusion that liquor
was going out Of the southland; that
It was gone from North Carolina,
gone from Georgia. put out Of bust
ness in Tennessee and that there
was no trafic In Alabama. He told
Of the Tennessee campaign, how the
legislature has enacted the state wide
law. how the governor vetoed 1t and
how it was passed over his veto. He
said then that governor was put out
Of business by majority of 10000.
At the Baptist Church.
At the First Baptist church. Mr..
Stuart said that the time was coming
when only the negro and the ignorant
foreigner would vote for the liquor
traffic. This may make some of you
old deasons mad" he said, "but
make this statement in the name Of
my God and country"
The speaker said that the saloons
would knock a man out Of holding any
job in the country except running for
Office and that the day Of the blear
eyed politician was passing.
why the time is even coming"
he said. when drunkard cannot
even get on the police force. He
cannot even keep bar. The whis11ey
seller will not even make use of his
own product"
The speaker said that the saloon
keeper was better man and bet
ter citizen than the man who would
vote for the liquor business
you VOTE" he said, "for some one
else to do the dirty work that YOU
would not do yourself: you member
Of the church, you hyprocitical COW
ard"
He said the time had come when
the country no longer runs from the
great diseases OF small pox yellow