The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-23
Says Liberal Element ''Will
Not Leave One Dollar Un-
spent to Win Option Elec-
ton.
EXPLAINS WHY HE
WILL VOTE DRY
Governors Secretary Says
Terre Haute Is Disgrace to
Indiana and Causes Demo-
cratic Worry.

Il did not come home to make a
speech; 1 came home to stand up and
be counted with the drys and to vote
DRY Tuesday. When l found ] was
wrong on my stand. there was moth
ing for me to do but to change TO the
right side. / thought 1 was right,
theoretically, but / have come TO re-
alize that we are facing a condition
and not a theory"
With these words B. r. johnson.
secretary to Governor Ralston, de-
clared that any good feeling tina.
might have existed between him and
the saloon faction had ceased to ea-
list. The occasion of his statement
was the introduction Of Seaborn
Wright. former governor Of Georgia,
at a prohibition rally at the taberna-
Gle yesterday
You all must understand what a
constant stream OF misery goes
through the place where I am work
ing. Only yesterday l left a Door.
struggling. heart-broken young wo-
man. pleading for her husband.
even shrink from opening my mail.
know those letters can tell the
ones that are full of tne heartaches
and the stories of power p. cruelty and
the mockery Of drink. Its the same
old story. It's getting to be hor-
ror to me.
Advises Watehfuiness.
With the campaign so near to a
close. ii is up to US now to reap the
fruits of our labor. Never relax ir
your efforts for minute. Many
hoc l,sv
before An election. Then IL IS notS
common for another party I, step in
at the opening of the polls xad ~Sin
out / understand that the other side
in this fight will leave not one dollar
unspent that 1t can spend and keep
out of Jail. Therefore our organiza-
ton must increase its vigilance.
Commercially, saloons are loss to
community. 1t has been proved that
they are an economic waste. They
are robbers, both intellectually and
morally. And taken from the civic
angle, they mean only a deterioration
"Terre Haute has been deteriorat-
ing for twenty years. Now it is a dis
grace to the state of Indiana and we
are ashamed to claim that it lies with
in our borders. | will tell you people
that there is nothing worrying this ad-
AiihiSeA daoh at lhtidhopoIiS ithc tudI
thing. 1t is the way il is. because no
one there has had the moral courage
and decency to stand up and demand
a better type of citizenship.
Assails Personal Liberty.
This liquor business is just one OF
the many so-called natural rights that
should be prohibited because public
policy demands it. Personal liberty Is
sophistry. It's against public policy
to sanction the selling of lottery tick
cts: the playing of games Of chance:
the use of poisonous drugs; to bring
home foreign made goods without the
payment of duty.
"All of these things are under ban
of the law. 1t means the legal exer-
else of the right of self-defense by the
community: the legal defense OF civ
iliZation against barbarism. What Is
more barbarian or uncivilized than the
saloon and liquor traffic?
Remember. people. the saloons
only have the natural right to exist. il
the people decide to give il to them
by majority vote. It's your privi-
lege to say Tuesday whether the sa-
looms shall exist or not in Richmond
It's secret vote and you can go in
and vote the way you want to vote.
What would you men say IL fifty.
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