The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-21
Hope of all Future Rests
With the Morals of
Community.
Rev. Douglas of Wooster Makes short
Addresses Denying That Any Minis
ter Had Anything 90 do With In-
stigation of the Wooster Riot.


ney avenue.
Again the big tent was filed. Rev.
| G.. NJ. Rourke presided over the meet
ing of the evening. In his opening
remarks he spoke of the necessity for
immediate action on the part Of all
drys. The time is at hand, said he.
and we must not sit around until IT is
too late.
He introduced Rev. Douglas of
; Wooster, who made a brief talk i'm
refutation of the report that min
lister of Wooster was implicated in
the instigation OF n riot. He explain
ed the situation thoroughly, showing
1t to be a falsehood.
Mr.. Lilly, the speaker o fthe even
| ing, said in part:
There is just one question before
the people Of Marion county in this
campaign, shall we take back the
open saloon?' All other discussion
is irrelevant at this time and in con
nection with this question. Whether
your streets are dirty and go unclean-
ed Is an entirely different issue. II
we bring back the saloons will they
have tendency to clean the streets,
to improve the city. to make IL bet
ter. will they improve the morality
and welfare OF the city and couse its
citizens to live with greater devotion
and patriotism?
what is the fundamental purpose
in making laws and running a gov
ernment? This question Is answered
i'm the first clause of the preamble Of
the constitution--to form a more per-
TAts h..
mon defense, to promote the general
welfare, to secure the blessings OF
liberty to ourselves and our poster
ity. Now, remember. this says the
blessings. not the curses of liberty.
The saloon is n curse of liberty
"In order to form a more perfect
union, establish justice. insure do
mestic tranquility, provide for the
common defense, we have done all OF
that and now we are here tonight to
work on the rest of that job-to pro-
mote the general welfare.
you can't devise any better way
TO do this than by protecting the
morality and Intelligence of your cit
lzenship, for those things form the
cornerstone OF civilization and liberty.
No patriot ever realized this To
greater degree than did Washington.
"The hope for all future times rests
with the morals of a country. In this
country. the immoral man does not
manage the government, but the gov
ernment manages him. Any institu-
ton that produces immoral man.
works against the best interest OF the
state
Intelligence is one Of the essential
elements of citizenship. What man
ever gave q year OF life to the saloon
and came out with as much intelll-
gence as he took in? The saloon
does not run a night school to eau
cate the heads of the young men that
freauent IT, He doesn't walk out OF
that saloo nand go home with the de-
cision to study and drink deep OF the
fountain of learning. What pralhs
YOU have tonight. men, If YOU USED
to FREQUENT those saloons, you nave
I'm spite of the saloon, not because oi
H.
"rhere Is no sensation in the as
sertion that ! have just made, nut
there is more truth in 1t than there
is I'm all of the wet arguments you
will hear between now and election
day. 49,.
"Besides the intelligence, morality
is another essential element In cit
izenshlp. What man ever gave
wear of his life to the saloon ana
came out with as high moral prih-
ciples and aspirations as he TOOK lhF
The saloon does not run Bible class
IN there TO improve morals. | imag-
inc these new tangled saloons, that
he vets are talking of, would agree
IN run Bible class il you would JUST
LET them come back. why they would
agree to anything just to get back
"Does the father who comes out
of that saloon come with warmer
love and broader affection Tor ms
daar ones. are the wife and children
aIoa 10 see him? No More often
the children seek hiding places Wuleh
they hear the footsteps of their iath-
or and the wife awaits his coming
with fear and trembling
.cWhat Is the relation OF the sa-
loon. then. to society? 1t is an insti-
tution that is bound TO bring disaster
10 everything and every one with
Tho mit comes In contact. You say
that SOUNDS IKE Nolll'H "A'N
ers. we'll, I'll give you something
little different. ,.oa
..The supreme court of the United
states is not a temperance society
,s not a religious body, a church Or
ganization or reforming institution
lit is a judicial tribunal There 70
not n woman on the bench, nor IL
there a minister Therefore, II must
he a conservative order, for they are
All LAWYERS. If you were going OUT
TO fnd cranks and fanatics you
wouldn't go to the bar II ! can
plant my feet on the planks OF uhe
doctrine of these men, ! shall De OH
firm ground
AT this time the speaker read
number of decisions Of the supreme
court on this question. He told now
he had hurled these truths into tne
faces of the brewers in the senate IN
Columbus. "T'hey didn't have one
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