The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-11-16
SEES NEED or GREATER NAVY
Finds in the Use Of Alcoholic Liquors
One Of the Greatest Dangers to the
Perpetuity of the Nation Greeted
by Crowd

mond Pearson Hobson retired naval
hero and member of congress, arraign-
ed the people of this country for their
disregard of two evils which he believes
may, unless overthrow, cause our Ill
innate downfall as a nation. The first
of these is the lack of navy, which
could enforce the Monroe doctrine and
the open door policy, as well as provide
Ireal protection to our shores. The sec
ond is the consumption of alcoholic
beverages and their commercial distri-
button.
This address was the second in the
star course ching conducted by the
church. 1t was delivered to well
filed house, which applauded frequent
| ly as the speaker brought home his
telling points.
Captain Hobson, in beginning his adj
dress, "Our Country's Destiny" said:
Chance never brought forth this
union. believe that destiny allots to
each nation in turn some important
part in the world s development, and
believe the greatest part ever allotted
to any nation is allotted to America
Furthermore, I am convinced that it is
your generation and mine that must
give the stamp to our country s world
policy which is ultimately to work out
our great destiny. It is high time for
us as citizens to stop and think of our
country part in the progress of hu-
manity.'
The speaker then defined the two
sorts Of progress, that which consists
of removing the obstacles in the path
way of humanity, and that which
furnishes the actual uplift.
The greatest obstacle i'll the onward
march of civilization, he said, is I'M
doubtedly war. He believes it is
America s destiny to put an end to
war forever, but he says it rests with
her citizens whether she shall accom-
plish this by increasing her naval
strength to point where she can eff
fectually police her shores and her
foreign commerce against the warlike
moves of the great military nations
when they find that America is making
inroads in the great commercial cen
tiers throughout the world, or whether
we should only succeed in doing it af-
ter being forced to fight long and
bitter war of endurance.
| However, the speaker continued,
war is not the only great obstacle to
human progress. War is not the great
est destroyer History shows that the
downfall of each Of the great nations
has been preceded and caused by the
degeneracy Of its citizens, through the
consumption of alcoholic beverages.
The great nations Of the present time
are on the broad road to destruction
through the degeneracy Of their people
from this cause.
There is no such thing as purity in
alcoholic liquor There is no food
value in alcohol Of any kind. A drink
| Of beer causes a lowering Of the body s
efficiency of about eight per cent,
while one of whiskey causes loss Of
from twenty-five to forty per cent Of
efficiency
In making these statements, Captain
Hobson said he was not here to make
a prohibition speech, but was merely
| giving his audience the result of abso-
llutely indisputable scientific expert
ments
| He added that there was no medi-
cinal value in alcohol, taken internally,
and that it was not stimulant, as had
/ long been supposed, even by the medi-
cal profession, but a narcotic poison.
THE use of alcoholic liquors. Z said
Capt. Hobson, in this country caused
an actual economic loss of nearly
fifteen billions of dollars in this
country last year, a greater loss than
if all the products OF farming, fishery
and forestry had been wiped out. The
removal of this impediment to indus
trial progress would, according to the
speaker, entirely wipe out such things
as hard times and Industrial de-
! preston.
In concluding On this topic, the
Captain said that attacks by church
on the liquor business were useless.
that the process Of voting a county
dry two years, then wet two years, or
Of voting one county dry and those
around it wet, was absolutely futile.
The disease is organic, and the rene
tidy must be organic. A prohibition
Clause must be written into the con
stitutlon Of this state and Of the other
states, and finally into flo constitution
Of the United States Of America.
/ III believe he said in closing,
s that the child aoW breathe. 60
live to see prohibition N the eonSt.ta,
ton Of the United States, and who viii
see the time when there will be- prohi.
bition IN the constitution of the
world. ! believe that u the great