The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-20

said NJ. Lilly is one Of the most elo-
qucnt speakers and ardent workers
In this cause and that his investiga-
tions and work in Columbus has
caused great terror to the brewers
and saloon people in that city.
Delaware Day.
Sunday, Delaware county will be
represented at the big tent. W. A..
Morrison, who Is at the head Of the
large underwear factory there, win
speak during the afternoon i'm con-
junction with II. b. Miller. a profess
sor in Ohio Wesleyan university at
Delaware, and Judge N. f. Overturf,
a lawyer OF state wide reputation.
on Sunday evening the committee
has procured Ralph Parlett, humorist
lecturer and Marion's own SON
Sunday evening j. II. Miller. the
president of the Law and order
league OF Newark, who recently al
most met death at the hands of the
bootleggers, because he interfered
with them i'm his endeavor to clean
up the city, will occupy the platform
and tell the story of his work there.
MIR. Clark introduced the speaker
Of the evening. He spoke of him as
the Swedish cyclone. and paid him
a ilattering tribute on the work that
he has been accomplishing through
out, not only his own state, but many
others.
The speaker is the president of the
Antl-Saloon league of Minneapolis,
but, as he says, trains with the law
yers" when not doing any thing else
lie referred laughingly to the epithet
given him by the Ohio people, and
stated that he knew of only one way
that he could have acquired it, and
that was the time he was in street
car when "A cyclone struck It,
lie Looks Like Swcdc.
The speaker in appearance resem-
bles the people from whom he is
descended, he is "A young manly look
ing man, friendly and winning in
manner. He talked conversationally
TO his audience, reasoning out his ad-
dress in an informal manner.
In speaking of his ancestry, he
said:
81 can trace my ancestry back to
one of the proudest races that ever
pie who rushed down on old, de-
bauched Rome and wrested from her
grasp the torch of decency and re-
spectability which she was tramping
| under her feet. My ancestors were
among those people who overran
England, Their fighting and stubborn
qualities were represented among the
people that came to this country to
| lay the foundation for the country
we have today. one OF those men
has his name upon the declaration of
| independence-John Morton. | an
| glad To represent the Scandinavian
people, tonight, for they have been
the backbone of much of the tenn
| perance reform of this country.
This Is the Golden Age.
Il have come to you tonight to dis
cuss the point of view which yor
may be taking of this issue. | hav,
no patience with the men who ar,
always talking of the golden age
Those persons are pessmists. Thii
is the golden age Never I'm the his
tory of the world has civilization at
tained such heights, never have sucl
reforms been worked, never has tn,
public conscience been so awakened
Verify Is this the golden age. / hav,
no use for the pessimist The worl
of the church has been going on an,
advancing for two thousand years
> and ] should not like to think that /
has been for naught or that it hat
> reached its pinnacle and was descend
ing. My sympathy is with the maj
L. 1,
> his own town and his own people.
1--WE are living in the golden ag
and we are living also in the age o
gold. Never was there a time whel
men schemed and plotted and plan
ned as they do today to amass AM
lay up a fortune. The most prom
inent question in our civilization to
day is, does 1t pay?
Does IL Pay?
'That is question on which
want to talk this evening. | dom
want TO imply that you are so sordid
4 so immersed in the money lust tha
this question is the only one that yol
consider in the question of openinl
the saloon.
every one, even the saloon maI
/ himself, admits that from mora
standpoint. the saloon is wrong. Ther
I'm the name Of all consistency wan
10 ask you, how an institution that Il
morally wrong can ever be econom
ically right? Such arguments, to me
are impossible.
"Berore we open up the saloon. and
surrender to that traffic that has don,
everything In Its power and does dc