The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-03-16
lNTI-SALOOM FORCES NOW
IN THICK OF BATTLE
WITH LIQUOR INTERESTS
tight Is Being Vigorously Waged
by Temperance Advocates in
Number of Counties
'DRYS" EXPECT VICTORY
battle-ground Being Flooded
With Literature by Oppo-
nents of Rum Shops
'DRYs" EXPECT VICTORY

Michigan is once more in tho
throes OF vigorous dry campaign.
Local option elections are on in sev.
eral counties, and the artillery OF the
antisaloon fighters is now trained on
the forces OF the enemy II IS 10 De
battle royal, the rum fighters de.
clare. with no let-up until The clock
ticks of the last second for voting,
The first Monday in April. Superin-
tenGent George ". NOTION, OF the
Michigan Anti-Saloon league, is AZ the
head oil the dry" battalIons and ne.
hind him are some OF he best tenn
peranee warriors in the country, in
cluding John G.. Woolley, famous pro-
hiDition advocate There are to he
battles in about % counties and the
anti-saloon men expect 10 clean up
IN all OF them.
In addition 10 the volleys OF verbal
attacks on the liquor interests, the
battle-ground is being flooded with
temperance literature, featured with
utterances OF famous personages.
Emperor William Of Germany
quoted as saying
Il will give YOU in addition some
advice upon a question which, in the
interest of my nation, have very
much at heart-that of the alcohol
evil and the drink habit.
Il know very well that the pleasure
OF drinking Is an old heritage of the
Germans, but we must, by self-discip,
I line. deliver ourselves from the evil.
Il can assure you that in the course
OF my reign of twenty-five years,
have observed from experience that
the greater part Of the crimes which
have been appealed to me for decision
ought to be reported as the results OF
the alcohol evil"
And from Gov. Stubs, of Kansas,
comes the following:
"Half a century ago slaves were
} worth 81 ZOO In this country. From a
purely economic point of view, and
as a national resource, good, clean.
healthy. well-educated American boys
ought to be worth much more. II you
will stop for woment and think how
many OF them are annually ruined,
and utterly destroyed by the saloon
and its influences you will be so APP
palled that you must at least begin
TO appreciate the value Of prohibition
as an economic policy.
II you think IL is not a business
question. figure carefully on the an
nuai revenue derived from your sa.
looms and see how far IL will go 10
meet your losses of boys alone.
through the criminal institutions
which are fostered under the wing OF
the grog shop; for | assert that the
brewery Is originally, and the saloon
Is ultimately, the spawning place for
the gambler the woman of the street,
the robber. the wife-beater, and. final
~, the murderer. The gambling house
and the house OF ill-fame are SO
closely allied with the saloon that
when the latter is compelled to move
out OF q community the others must
20 with 1t as they have done in our
state"
r. b, Glenn, former governor OF
North Carolina, who is one OF the
speakers in the Michigan campaign,
says:
Il here assert that all the wrongs
and iniquities OF the tariff and all the
robberies, oppression, and greed OF
monopolies do not compare with the
sorrow, the ruin, the misery, the
crime, the poverty, the madness, the
damnation produced by strong drink.
II destroys home life: breaks the
hearts OF mothers and wives takes
the clothes OF the backs OF little chill
dren and substitutes rags; degrades
manhood; makes lewd women out of
virtuous maidens: stiles ambition,
destroys hope, weakens the body,
blights the mind and blackens the
IL ks.,s a,
for mans happiness and use, into q
hell for his ruin and misery.
I'm the interest, therefore, OF bust
ness; for the protection OF helpless
woman and children; for the suppress
sion Of crime; the amelioration Of
want and poverty; the prevention OF
disease; the preservation Of life; the
salvation or human souls, and for re
sake OF more than eighty-six milli~,
OF true, brave and noble American
men, women and children would be.
stow this gift of national temperance,
thus destroying a fearful curse, and
restoring man TO the God.llke image
In which he was created.
II would offer this gift to the Amer.
lean people"
Theodore Roosevelt says: "
The worst possible lesson to teach
any citizen Is contempt for law. No
man should take a public office un.
less he Is willing to obey his oath and
to enforce the law.
IF the poor man has right TO
break the Jaw on Sunday to get beer.
he has right to break the law on
every day 10 get bread. IL is a good
deal more important to the poor man
a .s.a 4. - n
than that he get drunk on Sundays
The people who try to teach him that
he has right to break the law on one
day to get beer are doing their best
10 prepare him for breaking the law
some other, day TO ia, Q bread"
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