Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-01

Of corn i6 not his henefaCtor, or the bene.
factor OF any man, from AZ economic
standpoint. Let US sec. a farmer bring
TO the brewer a bushel Of corn. lie finds
n market for IT, He gets 30 cents and
goes his way. with the statement or the
brewer ringing IN his ears that the brewer
is the benefactor.
You old rumsoaks OF Philadelphia,
you're up against the toughest propo-
sition you ever saw. / think when die
the brewers will run an excursion to my
funeral
But you haven't got all the factors
In the problem. Mr.. Brewer, and you
cannot get a correct solution OF a prob
lem without all the factors in the prob
LEM. You take the farmers bushel OF
corn, brewer or distiller. and you brew
and distil from IL four and one-half gal
Ions of spirits. I don't know how much
he dilutes them before he puts them on
the market, Only the brewer. the dis
tiller and God knows. The men who
drinks 1t doesn't, but IL he doesn't dilute
II at all, he puts on the market four and
a half gallons OF intoxicating liquor, 90
pints. I am not going to trace the 90. 1t
will take too long. But I want to trace
three OF them. and I will give you no
imaginary stories plucked from the brain
OF an excited orator. I Will take in
stances from the judicial pages OF the
supreme Court and the Circuit Court
Judges reports in Indiana and In Illinois
to make my case.
DRUNK on SUNDAY.
Two years ago in the city Of Chicago
q Young man Of good parents. good char
acter, one Sunday crossed the street and
entered a saloon, open against the law.
He found there boon companions. There
was laughter. song and Jest and much
drinking. After awhile, drunk, insanely
drunk, his money gone. he was kicked
into the street. He found his way across
to his mothers home. He importuued
her FOR money to buy more drink. She
refused MIN. lie seized from the side
board 4 revolver aud ran out into the
street and with the expressed determine
ton of entering the saloon and getting
more drink, money or no money. His
little mother followed him into the street.
She put her and upon him In a loving
restraint. He struck it from him In
anger and then his sister came and added
her entreaty i'm vain. And then a neigh
Dor, whom he knew. trusted and re-
speCted, came and put his hand on him
in gentleness and friendly kindness. but
in an insanity OF drunken rage he raised
the revolver and shot his friend dead in
his blood upon the street. There was a
trial; he was found guilty of murder.
He was sentenced TO life Imprisonment
and when the little mother heard the
verdict-a frail little bit of a woman
she threw up her hands and fell in a
swoon. In three hours she was dead.
I'm the streets Of Freeport, H.. a
young man of good family became in
VOWED in aN controversy with a lewd
woman of the town, lie went in a
drunken frenzy to his fathers home,
armed himself with n deadly weapon and
set forth TO the city in search Of the wom-
with whom he had quarrcled. The first
person he met upon the public square i'm
the city, IN the daylight, in a place
where she had a right to be. was one OF
the most cultured women of F%rceport.
She carried In her arms her babe, mother
hood and babyhood. upon the streets of
Frecport in the daytime, where they had
a right to he, but this young man in
his drunken insanity mistook her for the
woman he sought and shot her dead
the streets with her babe in her
arms. He was tried, and Judge Ferand,
in sentencing him to life Imprisonment,
said: You are the seventh man under 81
years of age in two years to be sem
fenced for murder while intoxicated
KILLED HIS MOTHER.
I'm the city of Anderson, you remem-
the tragedy in the Blake home. a
y Oulk man talllt Hplht lHlOAlNdAtN' ut-
handing money of his mother. She re-
fused it. He seized from the woodbox
a Ratchet and killed his mother, and
then robbed her. You remember he fled.
The officers of the law pursued him,
him back. An indictment was
read to him.. charging him with the MUIR
der of the mother who had given him
his birth, of her who had gone down into
the valley of the shadow of death to
give him life, Of her who had looked
into his blue eyes and thanked
God for his life. And he said. 4 am
guilty, | did it all And Judge Mcclure
him to life Imprisonment
Now | have followed probably three
Of the IS pints of the farmers product
Of a bushel OF corn and the three of
them have struck down seven lives, the
.hree boys who committed the murders.
three persons who were killed and
he little mother who dies Of a broken
heart. And now, I want to know, my
friend, IL this has been a good
commercial transaction for YOU? You
sold a bushel OF corn; you found a mar
tet; you got 30 cents; but a fraction of
This product struck down seven lives,
Ill OF whom would rave been consumers
IF you products for their life expectancy.
do you mean TO say that is a good
transaction to you? That dis
poses Of the market question until 1t is
answered, let no man argue further.
"And say, my friends, New York city's
drink bill is 1856, cocoon a year,
4, 900, 900 a day. Listen a minute! That is
our times the annual output of gold, and
I is at least one-third the value of all
he coal mined in the United States And
N some sections of New York there is
saloon for every 80 families. The
money spent in New York by the working
people for drink in 10 years would buy
every workingman In New York a beau
.iful home and allow $1,000 for house and
OF, New Yorks annual drink bill would
100000 barrels of flour, nearly a
for every man and woman in the
United States. 1t would take 80 people
year 10 count the money in 81 bills,
they would cover 1000 acres of
ground. That is what the people I'm New
York dump into the whisky hole in one
'ear- And then you wonder why there
5 poverty and crime. and that the coun-
ny Is not more prosperous.
SAYS CIRCULAR IS FALSE.
This gang is circulating a circular
lbout Kansas City, Kan. l defy you to
a statement in it. Listen' Kansas
1ity is a town OF 100, 600 population, ana
emperance went into effect July /, 1905.
They then had go saloons, 200 gambling
tells and go disorderly houses. The popu-
alton was largely foreign, and Inquiries
rave come from Germany. Sweden and
Norway, asking the influence OF the en-