The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-30

Nor do the Catholics or Luthcr7n
churches preach politics and prohibit
ton on sunday. The preachers of this
country, by this kind of preaching
turn more young men from the church
than all Of the saloons or rreweries
ever dragged away.
"1f you were tried for Your life,
how would you like to be tried be-
fore a jury composed of six Metho-
uist and six Presbyterian ministers?
They have squeezed all of the milk of
human Kindness from their hearts.
they won't believe anything but their
cwn opinions. They are too good.
should want jury with little mercy
not one that would stick right to the
law. The ministers would have their
minds made up before the trial be-
gan. and if the accused happened to
have a little red on the end of his
nose, they would declare him guilty
lecause he drank whiskey.
BILLY Sunday says that booze is the
direct cause of all the murders. the
vice. and crime of this country. If
that were true. YOU would lynch me
for standing here and talking to you
as | ann. When he says that he says
a thing he can't prove. Billy Sunday
is cross between a clown and a
windmill. After trying to find some
thing age inst my character and fan
ing, he called me a skunk, a iack-ass
and a rattle snake.
when YOU have dry town YOU
still have the evil of the saloon and
none of its benefits. OF course there
is always a certain class of old soaks
who get drunk, not because of drink
but because they haven't had the ad-
vantages of education we nave all had
In this world the battle of the sur
Nival of the nttest is always beine
Waged and the weak ones have to g,
down. Only the favored ones survive
any how.
Let us go into the economic par
of this question. There are two mil
lion. three hundred thousand peopl,
engaged in this work, estimating from
| the man who blows the bottle to tn
architect that plans the building
| Suppose you Put them out of business
| r. there are three members to tn
family, YOU have nearly seven millioi
| people to feed and clothe The pro
Ihihitionst says, they can, go to worl
at something else. Why don't the
put to work the seven million peopl
who are constantly out of his job, tr
putting the man who is out into on
before you expect to lie believed OF
this economic subject.
"Billy Sunday says that two hun
| dred thousand saloons in TINS Unite
states ruin more people than tn
money they take in. Suppose he
fright. The average rar tender ge;
Sl4 per week, no saloon can get alon
without two bar tenders Two hun
dred thousand saloons must have fol
hundred thousand bartenders. Onl
getting two dollars a day they woul
earn eight hundred thousand dollai
a day and to be considered. they ru
more than they help. Gentlemen, Il
fault with that kind o. argument
IL leads one to thtnk that crime or
ginates in the stomach. More me
commit crime because of greed M
lust and jealousy. than ever comml
ted crime because they were tempora
ily out df their senses.
1.-The trouble with the piOhibiti,
law IL that It attempts TO enforce
rule ofqconduct on the people wi
never w3lntbd It. If a man has be
Gidnking for twenty years, you cai
tell him that whskey is going
shorten life. He will probably sa
L don't care whether II does or II,
the average man doesn't care wheth
it does 1t is n luxury and the be
, | YOU can say FOR it is, that il tast
, good going down. And when you ha
stid that you have explained w
: men like 1t. They want IL becau
, they like it.
? 1T is a peculiar thing, but II Is
I fact that all things that taste goo
- lock good, and feel good shorten II
t So do high heels and tight corse
S foI that matter.
t why Methodists are dry. | nel
e can tell. | think the majority
II them don't know who John Wes
u was. He was converted to Christli
IS ity by the Morabian brethren, and
e convention took place m the cellars
i the Morabian Brethren, and yet
'e Methodists say they are dry.
'You nave been buncoed for tn
1t yea;s, you know just exactly whe
lie or Marion county is better off wi
t out the saloon or with IT,"