The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-17
BOSTON man SAYS
PEOPLE CAN WIN
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people-know that they are not want
ed here.
81 believe you people and your com.
mittee are able to look after the local
situation, and l will not say anything
locally except that l saw some en-
tightening advertisements in the after
noon papers: But l will endeavor to
put in the minds and hearts of you
people some phases of the liquor traf-
fc which has a bearing on this COM
nunity.
The liquor traffic is a non-lithigated
business and must be destroyed. 1t Is
in opposition to law, religion. ethics,
business and professional life. EN-
,peror William, of Germany, recently
declared, The next naval battle will
be won by thesnation using the small
est amount of alcohol The ADVICE
was given to the naval cadets, ana
the ruler urged them to form total 40
stainance societies..
congressman Hobson, of Alabama,
recently declared in speech before
the house of representatives that the
liquor traffic is one which will be set
tied within a few years. Parties will
rise and fall, split and rejoin before
the contest is over; men and sons
will split relationships, but now is the
time for the man with life to sacri-
fee in the words of service
Gar Against Liquor.
The French people in the districts
where the consumption of light wines
is the greatest, has the highest death
rate and lowest birth rate. During the
'Russian-Japanese war the military
heads of the Kingdom of the Great
Bear realized that drink was causing
more damage in the rank and file OF
Isoidiery than the gaping guns of the
Tiny Japs Hence the car decreed
that drinking must be stopped.
The liquor question is question
tworld wide Canada, continental Eu-
irope, England are all Interested in the
ldethronemetn of John Barleycorn. DR..
y. H. Kellogg. head of the Battle Creek
sanitarium, tells me that not drop
.of alcohol is used by the patients
while they are in the course of treat
ment. If you get a snake bite while
at the sanitarium you'll die sure, for
ithey will give you no whisky. The
Battle Creek institution has the high
lest per cent of recoveres Of any SINH
liar institution in the world
The Prudential Life Insurance COM
lpanv recently compiled statistics show
Ting that the moderate drinker had one
chance out of two, living as long or
recovering from disease or accident,
while the habitual drinker has one
chance out OF three, as total aD-
stainer.
Jane Adams, the Chicago reform
or. saws that the white slave ira ft1c
depends wholly upon the liquor tral-
fic They work hand in hand. In
many cases the liquor traffic gives as
high as $50 per cent profit for the
abduction of girls.
Would Get Employment.
"In the breweries and distiileries OF
the country there are 81 ,O09 people
employed If the nations drink bill
could be eliminated the money spent
would give employment to seven ant
one-half times as many people will
FIVE and one-half times as large {
salary as the average emplOye receive
at this time
at has been charged that if tn,
saloon business were eliminated thei
the allied trades, bottle workers, casl
makers, etc, would suffer. Mr.. An
dreas, of Franklin, Ind, investigated
and found that the money earned b.
the trades allied with the liquor inter
ests was only l per cent of the tOta
amount earned DN cOnDlneu traces.
Senator Borah declared a few day:
ago that you could never solve tbs
high cost of living problem until the
drink question has been settled, anc
I think that is the proper way to pu
the question.
Liquor money is generally brea'
money, meat money. shoes and clothe
money. If the drink could be elmin
ated then the business of the natio,
would boom. You don't base the liquo
business on the same basis as tn
meat. grocery and clothing business
or your wouldn't make it necessary 70
the saloonkeeper to pay tax. If yo'
regarded the business in that ligh,
there would be no tax for license.
License is Failure.
The Saturday Evening Post, in a
article declared that prohibition |
Kansas was a failure. | say that yo
can find drunkards in Kansas, but tn
idea is to save the coming generation
the unspoiled children. In turn sa
that license is a failure Then
makes the burden of proof fall on tn