The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-24
Ninety Eight Per Cent Support
Liquor Candidates, Says
Prohibition Leader
HERE WITH SECOND GROUP
OF FLYING SQUADRON
Scores President Wilson For
Local Option Stan4 On the
Rum Traffic

Eugene w. Chain. of Tuscon, Ariz.,
twice candidate for president on the
Prohibition ticket, drove home few
truths that may not have seemed
pleasant to the 1900 persons who
crowded the floor and balcony OF Cen
trail Methodist church, Monday night,
TO hear another bombardment of the
liquor traffic. this time by Flying
Squadron No. 2.
Two standards of morals can
never be accepted on this liquor prob.
lem said Chaffin "A man Is either
right about il or he is wrong | say
he Is wrong when he is In favor of
licensing liquor in any way, Perhaps
you don't believe that most of you
church people have set up double
standard OF morality. You know the
saloon and the traffic in strong drink
undermine the manhood, the woman.
hood and the childhood OF the nation,
yet"-and the speaker leaned for
ward and pointed an accusing finger
at the audience-"yet statistics show
that 9s per cent of the church people
reject the man who Is right on the
who Is on the wrong side"
The silence that reigns In the
kitchen when Johnnie is being scold-
ed and hangs his head because of the
absolute lack OF an alibi. came ever
the meeting. The tall, broad-shoul-
dered westerner, who had led the
Prohibitions lit two hard but futile
campaigns, waited until his remarks
had had plenty of time to sink in"
Then he followed up his advantage
You don't applaud, do you?" he
said. II tell you, my friends, + am
not bitter, but the time has come
when the good people OF the nation
can no longer admit that there are a
dozen different sides to this liquor
question. They cannot concede that
one standard OF morality Is on top one
day. on the bottom the next, and that
Two or three are jumbled together
They cannot continue to represent
that they are leading religious lives,
and then put their religion In cold
storage on election day by voting for
those men who are willing to continue
the partnership between the liquor
interests and the United States gov
ernment"
This time Chains kindly. yet force
ftl rebuke brought storm of cheers.
President Woodrow Wilson came
in for severe criticism because of mis-
attitude on prohibition. Mr.. Chain
prefaced his remarks about the pres
ident with stories of the days before
the rebellion when Lincoln and
Douglas were engaged in their ia
nous debates. He also spoke OF Gen.
Lewis Cass, of Michigan
"Cass and Douglas made the. same
that is being made today by
our president" said Chain. "They
believed and preached the doctrine
of popular sovereignty They said:
Let the people of the different states
decide for themselves II slavery is
wrong. Lincoln's reply was that no
man or set of men could legislate a
wrong into a right.
That Is the exact situation we
nave today. Let the different cities,
townships, counties, or states decide
for themselves II they want or do
not want liquor is the attitude of the
president of the nation. II liquor IS
wrong in one hamlet in America, 4
is wrong on every inch OF soil over
which our flag floats. IL It's right.
then it's right for the whole of the
union.
II never saw a saloonkeeper, a
woman OF the streets, or anyone else
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