The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-14
MUST WAGE WAR ON THP
POLITICIANS FOR REVENUE
Up TO Temperance People ta p.t.
the Corrupt Bosses in All Fam
Thinks Mr.. Anderson.

lIC &oITupt INS~>(S III All lavF-
Thinks Mr.. Anderson.
Extract from address deliver
William H Anderson. State Sane.
tenGent Of the Anti-Saloon L.a.
New York at the ln~ternatl,r.I
worth League Conference. F.~
Saturday morning. July I. on .th.
ject, WRITING the Temperate. t
yictions of the People Upon IL, So.
ute Books Of State and Nation
Since the liquor traffic NOR. tt.-
any other single influence is re>I..rt
bic for h corruption Of Amtt..
politics the fight to destroy the :.
will fail Of its POSSIBILITIES anu -
Church Will miss a priceless crt.s-
unity unless the Temperance r-..
ment is utilized to purify polIu,~ t-
e~radicatinS the conditions response.
for the present type Of liquor rtE--
cal bosses and liquor political m.
chimes. 1t is not our business Ia ,4.
pose any political party. as such.
we must declare war. in which e...-.
ter will neither be given nor ASKED.
upon the politicians for rever-t wiz.
AVE gotten control Of the machine
Of various parties to serve The k-a.
j Demon with
The time has come when tia
Church. and this is particularly t,.e
of must serve notice that
while official members with 'stanC-
pat tendencies in politics and m.r.ls
may be permitted to remain IN th-
| Church for their own good. vet for ~.
good Of the Church they VII 10
longer be permitted to dominate lt.
activities and hamper its spiritual
growth by holding il back from bread
social service n i~nfiexibie. courac,-
u aggression against evil. For *
ample, the Church m its warfare
against liquor cannot afford to be COM
promised before the nation for the
sake of fattened tithes from fortunes
made out of alcoholic or other haiti
forming patent medicines or quack
noStrums.
The big politicians Of the pract,al
variety realize that times have hang
ed. Mr.. Murphy OF the Democratic
Tammany is now IAN apostle Of tie
"up-lift." We suspect, however, that
~"hOld-up" is more accurate than "uI-
lift Even our Mr.. William Barnes
Of the Republican Tammany threat
ened to have me arrested three ditter-
ent ways and finally brought a civil
suit for libel for being called the BOSS
Of the Liquor End Of the Republican
Party although his political poWe~
has for years rested on a liquor and
vice coalition. The temperance prol-
lem cannot be solved until men like
Mr.. Barnes and Mr. Murphy are either
driven out Of politics or else ON
PEELED to quit protecting or consentinG
to the protection CT a liquor traffic
which is generous with its campaign
fundS 1t has been said that yoll
"can catch more flies with moiass.>
than Ia you al with vinegar" The
Church militant in this matter is no,
catching flies; il is killing snake.
A graphic illustration Of the growth
OF temperance sentiment Is the fact
that it took ten years to get the WtIt
Interstate Liquor Shipment Law Il
permit the States to enforce Their oNt
police regulations, out Of the ludiciarN
committee of the national House e"
Representatives. Two chairnen =
this committee were defeated art
: finally IA Speaker who appointe,
them went down. Now the Amend
ment for national prohibition, IN
most drastic proposition possible
came out of the same committee IN
: five months. and even the liquor neI
admit 1t will pass soon, ever If ten,
r porarily delayed.
Money is the liquor tratfc's motive
its god and its sole excuse for being
FaclnS Reputation OF its reVenu
argument it roars 'confiscation" #u'
whines for compensation" We az
cept the proposition. We viii com
pensate it when it first compensate
; the families of drinkers for loss a.
v support, and then the public for tn
crime, insanity, poverty. misery al
l degeneracy 1t causes and its rcttef
$ OF honest commerce. 1t Is not con
L nScatlOn to say to organized greco
You shall not SC use your propcrf
n as to injure mJ brother"
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