The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-30
Roy. Miles, Addl..ss


Rev j. w. Miles spoke at Fairyiew
"Wednesday evening making an able
address. He discussed nearly all
phases of the problem to ,5e de-
cided next Wednesday and ,rtore the
hushs Of deceit, misrepresentation and
deluslon from the giant iniquity Of
converting boys and girls into drunk
arus and castaways by tho process Of
the open saloon, when they should be
protected and saved for the homes.
the schools. the churches and the
state. Early in his speech he refer
red to the fact that he had discovered
that certain men were posting up
placards from LaRue to Marion and
all along the highways of this county
with this heading:
chow TO VOTE WET"
When he passed the parties who
We're posting up these pllcards he
discovered that one Of the mon. the
man in charge of the squad, was the
convicted and self-confessed law
breaker, Carl Burke. This Burke and
his brother had just been convicted
of bootlcgging In Mayor Saiter's court
and fined Sl700 and TO get the fine
reduced confessed and agreed To stop
waglng their crime against society.
Now said Roy. Miles. what do you
good people of Marion county think
of that? How do you honest, patri-
otic, Christian men ana women like
To be advised, educated and cNhorted
to vote wet that Carl Burke ana his
kind Of law-breakers may ply their
Infamous business To debauch your
boys and girls, to drag them down
from their purity and health and
manhood and womanhood To land
them outcasts of the saloon and pos
sibly to drunkards graves
The point fell on the audience with
the power of trip hammer ana no
man in that audience win ever vote
wet
That Wet Petition.
The rotten places in the petition
whereby the bootleggers brought on
this vote were shown up in red
light. Along with the bootleggers and
the law-breakers and the outcasts are
some good citizens who have signed.
But many Of these high-clas. citizens
say they never signed the wet petit
tion, that their names have been
forged that they never saw that Pc
ttion and that they are opposed To
saloons. These men feel outraged
and are becoming our best workers.
Another class of men were deceived
and beguied into signing the petit
ton They We're told 1t was a dry
petition or that the time had expired
and there had To be an election. Still
another class of signera are boys not
of age and thirteen paupers at the
mhrmary whose names are all in one
mans handwriting and that none oi
said paupers signed the petition. These
are the works OF fraud and crime
this deception, falsehood and forgery
which the good, reputable people Of
Marion county are expected to in
lorse at the ballot-boN nest Wednes-
day. win YOU voters stand for this
talsehood and crime2
Local Option Bclng Enforced,
Another strong point pushed home
with dramatic aud telling force was
the fact that the claimtor the vets
that the local option law Is not Well
enforced is not as true as they would
like ii to be. or course IL Is admit
ted it is not perfectly enforced The
liquor business has Been inucuchlng
itself for one hundred years ana II
! cannot be driven out in few months.
But men cannot sell out of their
pockets and In secret retreats, akns
one person at time, the tenth part