Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-11-07
Mr., BARI Corn
IHESLAltH0LDER
PROHIBITION SPEA KERS
SAY LIQUOR TRAFFIC
rs DOOMED.
Rel FINE ADDRESSES Al
j. Frank Hanly Tells How the
Flying Squadron Was
Brought About.

AN SSSSh ~ N'>
dist church was taxed last night by
the hundreds who attended the meet
ing in charge OF the third group Of
the Flying Squadron of America, that
remarkable organization which has
summoned to its standards some OF
the most eloquent men in public
life today in its fight TO secure nation
wide prohibition Tor the United
States. ..
The hundreds who were there last
night, heard three wonderful address
es which certainly brought many citi-
zens OF Bismarch into the ranks OF
the men and women who are already
assisting the Squadron in its fight to
make the United States IA %sal0nnless
nation, Behind the addresses on the
question of national prohibition, stood
the powerful personality Of three big
men,-big in ideals, big in purpse,
and big in ability. The liquor traffic
was attacked from three different
angles, and held up 10 view as the one
e~nslaving power which holds in bond
age the people OF this nation.
Hanly's Address.
j.. Frank Hanly who conceived The
idea OF this organization and through
whose sacrifices and work the organ.
iZatin received its first impetus and
actual launching, was the first speak
er. He told, first of all, how it hap
pened that he gave up bright pros
poets Of political preferment, gav' up
a great law practice. and an enviable
position in public life in the state of
Indiana to work for national prohibit
ton, the goal which he has sent for
his life's work.
He told the story of Will WOOSTER,
"a story we'll known in J~ndiana,-as
the one definite incident that led to
his beginning the work of this Or
ganizatiOn. The story was n deal
ing. with a family, happy in the hopes
of the future and. happy in the actual
ity Of home where love was supreme,
until, for the first time, for the faith.
er partook 0 intoXicants at a Labor
Day celebration and, while a maud1in
drunk, assisted in the robbery of a
man IN a country road. Mr.. Hanly
TOLD Of the mans giving himself up, OF
his trial and conviction, Of the et-
forts of the%girl-wife to support her
self and baby, and finally Of the ap-
peal made by this wife when another
baby was expected. ,He then told OF
the mans parole, Of his fight during
the IS months of his parole, and of his
final regeneration and official pardon
from the governor.
This tragedy of a home broken
up, of a family altar desecrated,
was the one thing, perhaps, that led
to the organization Of the flying
squadron, and as Mr.. Hanly told the
story there many eyes that filled with
tears. When he had finished the
story and had told of his plans and
hopes, the applause showed how great
an interest has been aroused here in
the work Of the Squadron.
DR.. Ira Landrnth, president of the
Observation-Disclosures school for young
women at Nashville, Tenn, and per-
haps the most prominent school Of its
kind in the south, was the next speak
er. DR.. Landreth proved to be one
Of the most pleasing speakers ever
heard here, with Il fund Of humor at
his disposal and a pleasing personal
ity that won his audience from the
start. He told Of the fight that vas
being made, and Of the confidence
which they felt in the speedy accom-
plishment OF their plans. "
Con July Fourth, 1920, we're going
to celebrate a new declaration Of in
dependence" he& said. well cele-
brate an emancipation from a slavery
more complete than the African slaV-
cry of the South yer was. The slav-
cry Of John Barleycorn holds the
souls of men in bondage. But the
liquor traffic and the American peo-
pie tare"going to part. And it will be
the liquor traffic that will be driven
from this country, back to it's rightful
home in hell
Oliver w. Stewart.
oliver w" Stewart of Chicago, for
merly a member of the Illinois legis-
latl;re and a powerful speaker, vas
the last Speaker. It the two first
speakers missed anything in their at:
tack of the liquor traffic, Mr.. Stew.
art made up for their omissions, and
the countless points he made were
driven home to his audience with
blows.
The campaign conducted in Bis
narck was certainly a success, and
the people here have helped substan-
tally in the work OF the organiza-
ton by the contributions made.