The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-02
BOOZE" At THE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH

last evening to hear Evangelist Brown
on the question of Booze The meet
ings are growing in interest and the
members of the church are confidently
expecting great meeting. The
speaker held the audience for one
hour but said that he would not do so
any more. The importance Of the
question demanded more time than an
ordinary sermon.
Since coming to ArdmOre I have
been told that there is more whiskey
sold than there Is in Gainesville,
where they have open saloons. That
is an infamous lie. If it was TRUE the
whiskey people would never try to get
open saloons. They are out to sell
their damnable stuff and if they sell
more in local option territory they
would at once begin campaign to
have the whole country adopt local
option.
If there is whiskey being sold all
over Ardmore as some Of your citizens
would have us believe then either. the
mayor and officers are not doing their
duty or Tie citizens are not doing
theirs. You owe it to your officers to
stand by them, if not get men who will
if, but there are a lot of fellows who
will tell you that you can buy whiskey
anywhere almost but they won't swear
to it when called before court. If
your officers are doing their duty
stand by them, if not get men who will
do their duty. If you know whishey
is being sold and do not try TO stop
it you are as bad, guilty as the fellow
who sells it.
i am told that the prohibition law
does not prohibit. Do you know of
any law on your books that does? |
don't, if they did we would have no
use for law. The argument made by
the advocates of the saloon is that, |
since the law does not prohibit that
we should license the saloon. Let us
follow that course of argument for n |
moment and see where it leads. The |
law against murder does not prohibit |
so let us license men to murder; the |
law against stealing chickens does not
prohibit, then let us license men to |
steal chickens; some weathers on this |
argument, but it is all right, the law
against one man running off with an
other mans wife does not prohibit |
therefore lets license them to run off
with all the wives they can find You
see such arguments are nonSensical.
The prohibition law prohibits in about
ninety-five per cent of the cases and
that is as good as any other law.
We spend a billion dollars annual
ly for strong drink. If that money |
was turned into legitimate channels |
our merchants, grocerymen and butch
ers would be forced TO get new clerks !
on account of rush of business. |
There would be marvellous increase
in all lines of business because the |
poor drinking people would have mon
ey with which to clothe their children.
About forty million people in this |
country are living under some form
of local option, and the reason more |
whiskey is sold today then was sou
few years ago is because a mil
lion foreigners, nearly all of whom |,
drink, are being dumped upon us ev-
cry year. The cd whiskey soaks are
drinking more than ever. The longer
you keep it up the more it will take
to satisfy your thirst for it. | heard
a lawyer say few days ago that this
city is much better off without the
saloon. No sane man would desire 10
have the open saloon.
| am optimistic. | believe that the
churches will some day unite and
when they do the saloon will have to
go. When we unite and get rid of
some of the old soaks that we are car.
rying on our books you will see the
uooLl oI ule Whlske! business. KNOW
we can do it. Forty thousand Chris
tian people in a nation like this can
get what they want if they go after it,
Subject tonight, Thousands Tuned
to the Lord Friday night. Bicycles
and Baptism. Saturday evening,
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