The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-14
nerve and the hard muscles Is the man
who Is In demand today.

nerve and the hard muscles Is the man
who Is In demand today.
At this point Prof. Scanlon created
q ripple Of laughter by a thrust at the
Pittsburg council. He said: "A man
cannot have money unless he works
for it, or is a member of the Pitts.
burg council. However, think it is
different in Pensacola"
"Who pays the rent OF the saloon
keeper? Who pays his taxes, his in
surance? Who buys food and clothes
for his family? Largely it is the
wives and children who pay through
their suffering and the merchants and
business men who sell to drunkards
and can never collect their bills" said
Mr.. Scanlon. Here he quoted Col. Geo.
Bayne, saying, Il never see saloon
keepers wife with a rose in her hat,
but what know 1t Is the rose out of
some other woman's cheek"
The speaker then left the business
side of the question and said that he
did not want 1t understood that he
considered the business part OF the
question the most vital. as such is not
the case. He said 1t was a great
moral question, and that people were
Of more value than money, and used
threw overheard many valuable goods
in order to save some lives. He said
there were now two vessels at sea,
one Of them crying Save the brew
cries" and the other Save the boys
Prof. Scanlon brought up the sub
ject Of personal liberty, and said that
there we're laws which allowed the
railroad companies to condemn prop.
erty, and the country could even take
a man and drive him to war and place
him in the muzzle of a cannon, and
nothing was said about infringing on
his personal liberty, but as soon as
you go to knock in the head Of Abeer
keg, great hue and cry is raised
about personal liberty.
He said that he had no fight to
wage on the fquor dealer and the
drunkard, as he realized that if all the
liquor dealers and all the drunkards In
the country were locked up there
would be another crop to take their
places. He said the only way to rid
the country of the evil Is to stop the
manufacture Of liquor. He said that
there Is no sense in the statement
that prohibition does not prohibit. He
said you might as well expect the
devil to preach the gospel OF salvation
as 10 expect nQUor men to enforce pro-
hibitiop laws. He said when the
liquor men say that prohibition does
not prohibit, they are making out a
case against themselves. IF people
drink whiskey and buy whiskey, and
II whiskey Is shipped by car loads into
prohibition districts, who is doing all
this but the liquor people?" He says
If this is true that the liquor business
Is an unmitigated, unprincipled an
archist, and is an enemy to all that is
good.
Prof. Scanlon said the liquor in.
terests have stormier days ahead OF
them than they have ever experienced
IN the past, and that after the Sth Of
November there will be twelve dry
states in the Union.
The address, which lasted for more
than an hour, ended with an impas-
stoned appeal TO the voters to 20 to
the polls and cast their ballots in
favor OF the proposed amendment to
the constitution.
There were good many ladies
present. The speaker received consid.
cradle applause, as he is a good ora.
tor. and possesses keen sense of wit