Evening journal., 1915-04-07
PASTOR VOH Bosses
Speech MAKES STIR

God for fifteen minutes. because l
would fill your papers with obitu-
airy columns and your vehicles
would be h9arses, and at another
time to hell with the Turk; the
man who assigned all his oppo-
nents to the underworld merely
because they dared oppose him;
the man who knows no other will
than his own. who denounces every
other opinion in a most unc0mpro-
missing and hateful manner, raging
in his blasphemous and white
heat anger. carries all Of this
venom and hate into the lists
against the saloon
1hings Sunday Never Saw.
"A man that claims every
method iustifiable one in fight
ing liquor and still walls and
ouakes when he is defeated in
fair and open augmentation; a
man who describes things he
never has seen and passes iudg-
ment on people he is unacquaint-
ed with, and whose business he
is about TO ruin without know
ing anything about il: a man
who wishes tc throw thousands
out of their livelihood and home
without so much as recompense
for their property and the bust
ness. which the State guaranteed.
is arousing hate in the breasts of
thousands of otherwise good
people, this. gentlemen, is not
the doctrine which Christ preach
ed. but the self-made doctrine of
Billy Sunday, the sum total of his
message. the gist and marrow of
his fragrant and ofttimes vulgar
remarks. as J had sufficient op-
portunity TO observe and expert
ence.
This man then. so unlike the
@ Christ he claims to preach, is the
greatest champion of local Op-
ton law. This man, who pre-
tends TO bind all closer together
with the ties of love and friend
ship, is he who tears asunder
and carries strife and discord
into our State, while his own is
more in need of his efforts than
ours by all means?'
Cries of Local Option, Local or
ion," here drowned out his vOic
or a full minute. When he wa
able TO continue. he said
"a study Of those who are the
prime movers in this campaign
and their methods is a revela-
ton. An artificial condition of
life is produced. which is incon-
sistent with the physical as we'll
as spiritual nature of man and
under the guise of religious con-
version. the chief aim in life is
pictured in a fight against liquor.
In my humble opinion, this is
Misrepresentation of Christian du-
ties in a most fragrant form, be
cause the liquor question is one OF
education, rather than compul-
sion. one of morality, rather than
religion. The story of our dry
States and the statistics of our
manufacture of liquors, the fact
that the most murders last year
were committed in a dry town,
Memphis, and the least in the wet
city of Milwaukee, might prove
the fallacy Al a prohibitory law.
The wonderful attainments or
Germany in music, in science and
all progressive scholarship viii
tell. without fear of contradiction,
what an intelligent education con-
cerning the liquor question VIII
do. Therefore, gentlemen, 1
maintain that the liquor question
does not rightly belong before the
forum of the State as political
issue.
Gentlemen, / studied at the
University of Leipzig, Erlanger
and Berlin. and had the best con-
ceivable opportunities to study
the German race. Beer is used
by those people as a food. Our
own commissions on Investigation
have reported time and again that
there is no drunkenness in Ger
many. Observe the German cir
Gle OF our country. There are
very few total abstainers among
them, but where are the drunk
ards? Is the Governor of this
State a degenerate because he
comes from German stock2 Were
Steuben, Herkimer, Schultz de-
generates because they enjoyed q
glass of lager? Are the sturdy
men of Lancaster, Bucks, Berks
Philadelphia. Allegheny. Mont
gomery and other German couR
ties degenerates because they are
beer drinkers?
Not all the pastors of this
State are hangers-on of Billy
Sunday: not all Christian con
gregations are prohibition TEN
pies; the reason the Anti-salooI
League is so we'll known is be
cause we non-members work to'
hard to find time to protest.
"If there are any here that cal
prove satisfactorily to me that thu
State is rum-soaked, God-for
saken. drunken. criminal comb
nation, I am willing 10 be con
vinced.
"Nhy should we wish to do this
The State OF delaware offers PIT
able spectacle in this respect. IN
counties of Kent and Sussex are dr.
while New Castle is wet. ] haV
been told by a number OF men trol
the dry counties that they ha
voted dry. but would vote wet ne'
time ON account OF the terrible ol
gics which are possible now throua
,the increased consumption OF Win
key. There is no trouble in Ne
Castle county. One OF the reason
for this lies in the fact thst the Law
which are in existence are CARRIE
ont. a prohibition which does ne
prohibit is a farce Having certai
cnnnfins dry ,,.IltIo ntl,nrs M. we