The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-01-31

Blalr OF Adams county was Dflel ana |
was directed mainly TO disprove the
statement that Sunday comes only on
financial guarantees. The introduce
ton was made the preface to an APP
peal for collection, which was taken
while music was being played. Bishop
David II. Moore led the invocation,
which concluded with the Lords
Prayer. This welled like the roar of
many waters, upward and upward.
Asks No Quarter; Gives None.
Then came Sunday. There was no
preliminary sklrmish.
Like the salvo that announced the
opening of the corn show, which
shook all downtown windows yester-
day, his first gun grove home.
81 am the sworn, eternal, uncom-
promising everlasting and unalter-
able foe of the liquor traffic; l ask no
quarter and l give none"
The issues were Joined the case
made up and for the next 90 minutes
something like 1900, words flowed, |
seethed. gurglcd tossed, echoed and |
re.echoed through the hall, damning |
to hell and calling upon eternal God |
to aid in the nght-the battle against |
demon rum.
The audience was entirely male.
There was no mincing of words with
almost sicltening realism Sunday pic
tured the reeling drunNard, the drink
| rnaddencd, maniac. the debauche1
criminal. Z With no mock moesty or
other sort, he pictured the fostering
sores of society, the degradation OF
womanhood. the ruination of home
and happiness. all attributed to rum.
Every fact was hammered home with
an array of figures. 1ntermittently,
the audience roared its approval
Fight Goes on After Death.
| 81 am going to fight 'em all my life,
and before the undertaken comes
around to MI my carcass full OF em-
balming fluid and screw down the
casket lid. think / shall call my wife
and say. Nell, when I'm gone, / want
YOU to call in the butcher and the tan.
ner and have them strip the skin from
my body and tan 1t into leather and
make drum heads out of It and | want
men to go up and down the land.
beating these drums. saying Billy
| Sunday stlr lives and gives the demon
rum the greatest run OF its lifc'
"Whisky is all right in its place, but
its place is in hell. and want to see
every one line up and put 1t in Its
place as soon as possible. Seventy-iiv@
per cent. of the idiots come from IN
temperate parents, so per cent OF all
our crime is due to booav, 80 per cent
of all the murders are committed un'
der the influence of liquor.
THE Democrats drove 1t out in the
South, the Republicans are driving IL
ont I'm the North. If you've got scin-
ltilla of decency about you, you've got
10 line m against II. The liquor traffic
is worse than war. 1t is worse than
nnstilence, II Is the mother OF all
crime.
saloon Ratholc for Money.
| 81 don't give three whoops in he'll
for the man who champions it. He
ought to be arrested for going around
disguised as a man. lie is so low
down that he has to reach up to touch
bottom. Who foots the bill for the
cos, Of this damnable. hell-born bust
ness? The common people, the work.
ing men. Who gets the profits? The
brewers the distillers, who feed. fat
ten and gormandize on the misery oil
man, The saloon comes as near being
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money and their manhood, as any
thing in the world.
"The federal revenue from the
liquor business is 27 cents per capita
I say we are a cheapskate gang III
we'll let them buy us and damn US
body and soul for a hair cut and a
postage stamp. If YOU close every
saloon, brewery. booze shop and gro9
Joint on Gods green earth, II wouldn'i
affect the price of corn cents on
the bushcl. II the saloon business
isn't wrong, there Is nothing on earth
or in hell that is wrong.
Booze Question Greatest.
"rhere are 1900 saloonkeepers In
New York City'and 5000 of these
have criminal records. Mr.. Leglsla-
tor. don't you feel proud when you
vote for dirty. rotten business ike
that.
"Phe legislators won't do 1t. II
they do. their name Is Dennis.
"You've seen these boom editions
that the magazines and newspapers
rrint They tell all about the cont
mcrciaI resources and advantages oi
u city, but they never call attention
to the fact that II Is whisky town.
"All this talk about the tariff ana
reciprocity Is all right, but the booze
question is the greatest DO you kno"
that there is dumped into the whisky
hole in seven months. as much money
as Il takes to run the whole united
states government for an entire year!
The man who sells whisky is worse
citizen than the murderer or the
thief,
"Tho thief takes your money the
saloon takes your character; the MUIR
derer kills your body, the saloon
damns your soul and blights your pos
terity. II we could vote the saloon
out tomorrow. it would take so years
to get rid Of the cripples, degenerates'
perverts and physical wrecks 1t has
strcwn over the country.
Liberty n False Cry.
"They say ali they want Is personal
llibeTty. Personal liberty Is all the
tiger in the jungle wants. 1t Is all the
anarchist wants, II " all the thiel
wants Has liberty fallen so low thai
rye got to so noslng around amonl
breweries and booze joints to find II
Personal liberty shot down Lincoln