The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-11
Mr.. DRUMS Address at the Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church
Largely Attended at the
cIosins Meeting.
EVERY SEAT OCCUPIED
Advocated the Passing Of Prohibit
tlon Law by the General Gov
eminent Of tho United
States.

The Drum meetings came to a close
with great gathering in Trinity NJ.
e. church last evening Every seat
was occupied and many stood during
the whole Of the address. Taking as
his subject THAT Boy and Booze"
Mr.. Drum said that it had been eff
fectually proved that there was not
a particle OF nourishment IN alcohol
)or alcoholic drinks. People who
thought SO were mistaken. More than
that alcohol is a poison. Put tad
pole in alcohol and he dies almost
Immediately. Put some in your eye
and you lose your sight It is a It's
sue destroyer instead OF q tissue
builder. i Where the saloon fiourishes,
men who drink are not normal men,
and the whole community has to suf-
fer. But what do people care? What
do the people Of Keokuk care about
the speak easies and the vile drinking
places of the city? Places that exist
with the knowledge of the city gov
eminent, and remain open. Some day
the people will wake up to find that
there is no agency so ruinous and so
vile as the saloon.
1t ministers to disease. AS soon as
alcohol is taken into the system is
begins its deadly work. English in
surance companies know that, and
they have found that the probabilities
of life are heightened with the alb
stfnence from liquor. A man at TWEEN
| ty who is an abstainer has a POSSIBLE
| ity OF living to be sixty-five. A moder-
ate drinker has chance Of living till
he is ffty-one. But a drunkard at
twenty has only probable fifteen
years to live Diseases of all kinds
are more fatal to those who drink
than to those who do not. A man falls
sick with any disease, and if he is a
4 drinker he has one chance of recov.
lery against hundred II he were an
labstainer.
It causes degeneracy Who are
they who fill your jails, the drinker
and few others. Who are the muir
Iderers? The drunkards. Who makes
the criminal? The saloon keeper
Who makes the saloon keeper? You
dc. You respectable christian people
who are sitting here in these seats
9ou make them, and unless you want
Ied them to remain they would 60.
The saloon causes death. More
deaths than we know OF. Railroad
companies have found that out. Great
industrial corporations have found that
out, and 1t is a fact that the drinking
man cannot find employment He is
the cause OF accidents, and upon his
head the crimes of murder and self
obstruction fall heaviest But it's all
right. They pay little money into
4 Tie city exchequer and we cannot af
ford to get alcng without them. That
IS to say fourteen saloons in Keokuk
pay fourteen thousand a year In Ii.
censes, and every penny that is spent
III them robs the grocer, the clothing
manufactures. and makes men poor so
that few people may grow rich while
others starve, and children go naked
and the community has to feed and
clothe them. We could not get on
without the revene? That is one OF
the falsest statements ever made
Revenue? Why all that you do is to
lay big commission to the man who
sells liquor to collect little revenue
for you. He takes in a hundred dol.
lars for drink, and makes the com.