South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-01

alcohol. He is king OF our industrial
world. We pay the enormous tribute
OF $4,000, 100000 a year 10 King Al
cohol. This is more than three times
the cost Of the federal government
and nearly seven times as much as we
spend to educate the future citizens
OF the nation. This Christian nation
spends ten million dollars TO save the
heather world TO Christ, while IL
spends 200 times that amount 10
damn its own people body, mind and
spirit.
Alcohol Is king in the journalistic
world. Many Of the great daily news
papers are either owned by, or sub
sidized to the liquor traffic. The
liquor advertisements lining the rail-
roads entering our large cities prosti-
tute every honest industry and every
manly sport while they insult the in
telligence OF the travelling public with
the internal lie "Budweiser is friend
OF mine"
Alcohol is king in politics. He has
dominated parties, dictated policies
and whipped politicians into line.
The greatest difficulties experienced
in dry territory have come from issu-
ing federal licenses and shipping
liquor into prohibition districts. But
a new day has dawned. We honor
the men who shouldered the musket
and offered their lives in sacrifice TO
preserve the union and break the
shackles from the Negro and set him
free. We have rewarded their hero
ism with pensions, offices and homes,
and memorialized their deeds in i'm
perishable monuments. But we are
in a greater war today, not alone to
save the black man, but all men; not
the emancipation of the body only,
but the mind and manhood, the life
and the soul. l owe my country my
voice. my vote and my influence to
make and keep il clean.
Responsibility to Men.
Second-I am responsible for my
fellow-men. AS mo man liveth to
himself and love worketh no i'll to
his neighbor." l am bound to help
make conditions such that il will be
easier for my brother man to 90 right
and harder for him to- do wrong.
Such is not the case today. In Chi
cagO a woman whose home had been
blasted with the whiskey blight, sent
her marriage ring-mOst precious
treasure-begging that it be sold and
the money used TO fight the saloon
for her children'S sake" / owe a
duty to those children. The day after
election l saw a drunken sot stagger-
ing to the saloon with a pair of baby
shoes in his polluted fingers to barter
for a drink Of whiskey. That shoe
less baby demands my help as does
also the poor fool who at the COM
mand of the king robbed his innocent
child in it's crib. One day on cross
ing Jefferson street bridge 1 saw a
young boy in Howard park so dead
drunk that he could scarcely walk
This in the fair city of South Bend.
Can we longer tolerate such conditions
without shifting with titanic blows
this damnable monster?
Third am a Christian. Ny Bible
is unalterably opposed TO the saloon.
The genius of Christianity is against
it. Christ came to save; the saloon
came 10 destroy. Many scriptures
might be quoted in defense of my po-
sition, but three will suffice. First,
for the voter and politician. Habak-
kuk 2:12, Woe to him that buildeth
town with blood and stablisheth a
city by iniquity" If by my vote or
influence this city is being built with
revenue derived from the drink traf-
fic. the blood of victims is upon my
soul and the judgment OF God upon
my head. Second, for the manufac-
turer and vendor of the liquid damna-
ton. Habakkuk 2:15, 16, Woe unto
him that giveth his neighbor drink,
that putteth thy bottle to him, and