East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-03-13

| AOSS oO0HO lhC ndtueS,
put watch me prove them. have two
little boys, one fourteen and the other
nine. I'd rather you'd step up in the
darkest hour of the night, pull up a
revolver. and face Arthur and Willie
Buigin and demand them to give up
their money. and they hand you up a
dollar. and by the regular Jesse James
plan. take their money as a highway
robber and go off with it, than to sell
them dollars worth of whisky, beer
or wine. Why? I'll make no state
ments tonight that are not reasonable.
III you throw revolver under the
boy's face and take his money, you ve
simply taken his money, you've left
INV boy free to go and earn another
dollar. You haven't destroyed his
capacity to earn. neither have you
made him "particeps criminus" to
your crime. neither have you broken
h:s )ther's hea-,. B.t wien Gu sell
him dollars worth of liquor, you've
i.carc citated him to go or, and earn
another dollar, you have made a
moral wreck of the boy, and broken
a f.rd and doting motner's heart. l
sail the saloon business 10 worse than
a Highway robber. have proven It.
(Ereat applause). l said that it was
a bed bug, can 1 prove that? Yes.
verify. Did YOU ever know the bed
bug to visit you at night and come
from brother Smith over to your
house and innoculate some good
blood in you and make you a stronger
man the next day by his visit? You
never heard of it. He comes and bites
you and takes away what you have
produced and leaves you nothing in
stead but an hours scratching. The
saloon is a wealth consumer and
never was and never can be wealth
producer. Doesn't il belong to the
bed bug family? (Great applause)
Beloved, am glad l am an American
citizen. l love my country. l love my
flag. What is this thing We call, my
country, this thing so dear that I'll
go to war and be shot down like a
try. Is it my flag? No. The laws of
America? No. The rocks and the
hills of our native land? No. The
meadows and rivers? Never. 1t is not
that. What is it? 1t is an artificial
personality. Artificial l say? Yes.
And yet so real that we'll die for it.
u Let me get that before you tonight.
Here's an old man by the name of
Jones. He's in business in the city
and he has five sons. The Jones fam
lily owe you five hundred dollars in
money, but just which one You don't
know. It's the Jones family. But
you cannot sue family by law. But
suppose old man Jones goes to the
court house and takes out a writing
of corporation. he and his five boys
become an incorporate company. They
have put no more men into II and
; taken none out. but they have created
an artificial personality called corpor-
alton so real that he can sue and be
sued at common law. and tn Jones
corporation artificial and fictitious
seemingly is mighty real. What is my
country? Now, it's the incorporated
rights of every man and every woman
to live and enjoy equal protection of
peace and prosperity and happiness in
the community So when I die for
my country it's little Bulgin dying for
his big Bulgin. / lay aside the ego.
tism of self and set up the altruistit
standard for all others. My country
is me, the big me. the great /, and col.
{ lected rs of all the country. Can
T as an individual run a saloon or sell
/, liquor and damn my fellow men? No
and 1 don't want to do it, and you a.
an individual don't want to do it
Well then in Gods name don't yor
ever vote to make your country and
! your government, Gods government
go into a dirty damnable bushes!
. that you won't go into yourself
UOng and continuous applause.) Il
the big I wouldn't do 1t. the little
must not do it, II cannot run sa'
loon l have no right to vote to make
, my country "partlceps criminis'' to ;
crime that will not take part in my.
self Oh. whisky voter, 1 have go
. you tonight.
. want to look at this nefariou
, business from another angle just &
moment. have told 1t from the lega
aspect and the Blackstone standpoint
Let US look at ii from the standpoint
y Of five of the best and dearest Am
: erican institutions. the business men
I the laboring man. the tax payer. thu
! farmer, the public school, the Ameri
can home and the Christian church
, Do any OF these institutions need &
! saloon. would they run better with oil
without the liquor crime? ! can heal
your deep breathing after all this ap
plause say, why. Bulgin, the whisk,
. interests are diametrically opposed t.
all these institutional" Take first tn,
. business man. every dollars which
goes over the whisky counter does not
and cannot, go over the business man!
counter, dry goods, grocery, hardware
clothing house. shoes and soap mus
suffer wherever there is a saloon. It..
the enemy Of all American industry
). In a western town / was holdini
7, meetings where there were saloons. tn
: business men were tired Of them, the!
I wanted me TO help them run them ou
Of town. The initiative referendum
: was invoked, and that's one of tn,
y best laws ever put on the statut,
!. books. and ! began the work. A Ger
tain banker came to me who wa
president of the commercial club o
I that city and he said. "Mr. Bulgin. d.
you want some real good dope aeains
the saloons?" said, "Yes, always
l. And he said. Don't give my nam,
: away and I'll tell you a good one. I
has been a custom in our town fol
Q years to give roast goose or turke!
I for New Years present to the mos