Evening journal., 1910-05-30
HOBSON OPENS
ANTI-SALOON WAR
Addresses Big Crowd Of Local
OptiOniStS at New Castle
Sunday Meeting
Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
NEW CASTLE. May SO--In the school
campus here yesterday afternoon the
first gun Of the Anti-Saloon campaign
was fired when Congressman Richard
Pearson Hobson addressed a mass meet
ing. George Pierce presided and on
the platform sat the Rev. F. Y. Moore
the Rev John Rigg. the Rev. S. b.
Wylie. the Rev. c. E. Lewis, the Rev
Leonard White. Ira Lunt, p. J. Ahern.
John Heidson and James NJ. Wise. The
people came in automobiles. carriages
and trolley cars. all anxious to see and
hear the Merrimac hero William F..
Rothwell had charge Of a choir of boys
that sang several selections appropriate
to the occasion. For an hour and a
half Congressman Hobson held the
audience, showing that deep interest
was monifest in his address. Congress
man Hobson reviewed his research for
information regarding the liquor trade
and after a rigid investigation on a
scientific plan he took up this branch
of ward. The scientists who met in
London made a report that was truly
alarming. II showed alcohol to be
equal to Illuminating gas as a deadly
poison It's use being destructive and
degenerating on human organism, it
should be limited and controlled by the
government.
zone glass of beer day lowers you
efficiency u per cent" said Hobson,
land when the man who does mathe-
matical work or memories, the eff
cheney is lowered by the use of three
beers "a day to As per cent The fallacy
of taking a drink to brace oneself has
been relegated. The railroads of the
country long ago recognized efficiency,
and stimulants were cut out Strong
drink is no longer remains as q help
TO consumptives and hotel men. Bar
tenders and walters furnish statistics
OF their deaths as to he effect of alco-
hol."
It used to be the remedy for snake
bite and the other day when a mad
dog hit a woman the total abstainer
lived and the drinking man died, the
! speaker said
Continuing Hobson said:
cak- Tho? gotbffi.ma yb"b1wwOCE St
1T is known that out of 6t.215 deaths
$50 were abstainers and 1872 men who
drank 100000 people are slain every
| year, 1000 every day and 100 Ameri-
cans will be murdered while this speech
is being delivered.
more Americans have been murder
ed in one year by strong drink thar
in all the wars in all the nations since
the dawn Of creation. Twenty
million of the American people are
wounded annually through the use OF
/ alcoholic drinks. That shows ten times
as many wounded as in all the wars
and more than affected by famine
pestilence. volcanoes. fires and Other
causes. Destruction and degeneration
are words of terrible meaning when We
consider them regarding alcoholic
| drink. It is a poison and should moi
be in the decanter on your sideboard
but among the poisons away back OF
the shelf of your medicine chest
Mr.. Pierce in opening the meeting re
ferred TO the lack of little frocks anC
shoes for the children of so many wh'
! spent the money for drink.
In the morning temperance sermons
were preached from the pulpits in some
of thee hurches. During the past thre
months three saloons in New Castl
hundred were closed through the ef
forts of the Anti-Saloon League.