The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-24
Honeywell Takes ''ShOts" At
Wet Leaders and Pleads
Cause of Prohibition at
Meeting.
AUDIENCE CHEERS
TALKER FOR DRYS
Evangelist Urges Men to Go
to Polls and Register Vote
Against the Licensed Sa-
loon in Richmond.

When Evangelist |. E. Honeywell
stepped upon the platform at the tab
ernacle last evening he was given an
ovation which lasted longer than any
during the six weeks revival cam
paign he conducted here. Cheer after
cheer from hundreds of the evange
lists followers was given and many
men and women jumped TO the bench
es and waved hats and handkerchiefs
when he entered the building.
During the course of his address the
Rev. Mr.. Honeywell took several
"shots'' at j. Bennett Gordon, describ-
ing him as whisky writer, an idiot,
an imbecile. an ass, all of which is
gross flattery." The evangelist then
launched into an attack upon Gordon's
writing, apparently much to the amuse-
ment of the audience.
Evangelist Honeywell waded into
the issues of the campaign, and was
frequently interrupted by prolonged
applause and cheering and shouts of
go after them. HONEYWELL
$500 Drinkers Here.
In part he said:
The best statistics prove that ev
cry saloon now has 20 men made
drunkards and 100 men regular drink
ers," declared the evangelist.
But you say that the saloon helps
20 pay our taxes. Where do we get our
.axes? Do not the property owners
pay the taxes? Take two men. one
1rinker and the other an abstainer.
The drinker takes his pay check and
spends most of it across the bar. He
pays no taxes, owns no property and
IS of no value to the community. !
The abstaner owns his home
hence pays taxes OF the $500 regu
lar drinkers made by the saloons of
your city. at least 80 per cent Of these
would fail to accumulate property. and
therefore remain non-taXpayers. Your
loss on taxes from these $500 non
property owners would he about So
900. A conservative estimate is that
Your city loses $4,000 annually on the
drunkards made by the saloons and at
least $4,000 on the regular drinkers
or an annual loss of S9S.O0O in taxes
caused directly by the saloon and this
must be made up by sober industrious
people of your town who are property
owners.
wherever the spirit of anarchy pre-
walls it is breeded in the saloon. Chi
cago policemen are infOrmants to the
effect that in every meeting they
were called to dispel, the meeting
place was a saloon.
When Saloons Are Closed.
"Another trouble with our country is
our strikes and mobs When they be-
come uncomfortable in any city, the
first thing the mayor does is to order
the saloons closed. He goes to the
fountain from whence the mob springs
Again look at the corruption of our
Il sI,o
Internal liquor traffic is back of it ALL
The significant fact of closing the sa
looms on election day shows how dan
gerOuS they are. 1t is folly to talk of
a free ballot and a fair count when
the brewers and distillers Of the Unit
ed States have thrOttled the country
and bought many of our political lead
ers
The drink bill for last year was
s220,O00,O0O If all the silver and gold
were accumulated we would have but
$50, 900. 900. The capital stock of all
the National banks is only s200000,-
600. SO YOU see that none of three
above mentioned questions are as ap-
palling as the liquor question.
Trace the effect Of alcohol in the
worlds history What is history aft
err all but the record Of a sad process
sion of world tragedies. Nations and
empires in turn have risen to great
ness only to fall. But before the death
blow was struck from without. the ev-
dence shows in every case the ravag-
cS of titanic destroyer from within,
under whose operations the vitality
and strength of nations was submerg
ed in a general degeneracy.
What Kaiser Says.
The British and German govern
ments both have decried against the
use of liquor. Emperor William says:
The next great battle of the world
will be won by the country using the
least amount of alcohol
The Army War College at Wash
ington recently completed survey to
find the total number of men killed
by the different wars of the world.
From the Japanese -RuSsiO conflict to
500 B. c. 1t was found that about 3
100000 We're killed and wounded but
that only about 700 900 We're killed
Something over 100000 We're wound
ed The alcohol is killing our people
at tn rate Of nearly 1000 a day, or
about $50, 900 which is almost as many
as were killed in $500 years of worlds
progress.
The insurance companies say that
take three men each 20 years of age
The heavy drinker will live until about
Il years of age the moderate drink
or A years of age and the abstainer
will live to An age of 6f.
But YOU say that money is money