The Detroit times., 1914-04-27

a menace. Conditions here now are
| similar 10 those in France just before
the French revolution, and there
should be no poverty here And 10
years after the Prohibitionists have
swept the liquor traffic into the pit,
there Will be no abject poverty.
Crime, too, is traced to the liquor
traffic Women are debauched and
men, women and children killed, by
liquor. Lombroso said that rs per
cent OF the crime OF the world could
be traced TO drink You know that
| You don { need statistics TO prove il.
Drink girds the arm, OF the criminal
TO do things that he would not other
wise do. II dethrones his treason.
Young Moore would not have shot
that Detroit policeman II he had not
bepn pSuRE,s,a~s @ysl-r4a. .se
Crime costs this 6ouhtEr, annually,
Twelve hundred millions or dollars.
Drink .sent-the Titanic TO the bot
tom with 800 souls Drink causes
deficient children. When we breed
our children as we breed our live
stock the liquor traffic Will be swept
! into the ditch
But the liquor interests have set
! up as their goddess. Personal Liberty.
and they say that in spite OF the
havoc that liquor makes we must
not interfere with personal liberty.
| And as to muzzling man. 10 prevent
him from making hog OF himself, /
want TO say that there are lot OF
| hogs in this country. Every Kelley
cure, where wrecked men are trying
| to free themselves from the clutch OF
/ liquor, is an insult To manhood, ac-
cording to the liquor peoples cry.
And no man ever became drunkard,
voluntarily 1t is insidious, this al
cohol poison.
In liquor paper, widely circulat-
ed among saloon men. ] found an ad
vertisement for a bartender II stated
none but total abstainers need ap'
ply. How personal liberty must have
shrieked when she received that
thrust
Liquor is responsible for graft, fol
Doodle, for much of crookedness IN
politics VIII a man sell his vote
for liquor? When he sells his health
his honor, his position, his manhood
his hope OF Heaven, VIII he sell his
ballot %
Replying. Mr.. Windle declared that
statistics showed that the average
annual expense OF the workingman
for liquors was $3.50. That won
cause poverty" he declared, nor say
ing that won't make riches. He point
ed out that in Turkey, where there Is
no liquor, banned by Mohammed
there is the most AFFECT poverty AS
TO crime, he declared that greed, jeal
ousy, lust and revenge were respon
sible for crime, and not drink, and he
declared that in dry Atlanta, there
were 80 homicides TO each 100000
population, while in Milwaukee, wet
as a river" there were only -four
homicides TO 100000 popcSation.
He declared that he did not defend
the abuse or liquor, but the use OF IT,
and he said, I'll defend the bad sa
lloonkeeper when you defend the bad
preacher. and not until then, and I'll
have the easier defense, at that
Mr.. Brubaker, in his last inning
declared that we should treat alco
holic drink as we treat opium, and
prohibit its use. Referring TO Mr.
| Windies sarcastic shot that boat rid
ing might be prohibited, as II caused
death, occasionally" Mr. Brubaker de
clared IF a man took a boat ride,
and then another, and another, and
another, until he became so dizzy
that he went home, smashed the win
dows. blackened his wife's eyes, and
kicked his children out Of doors, yes
would prohibit boat riding"