The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-21

tional prohibition and that the presen,.
generation will surely live TO see that.
After SAYING that the wave Of pro
hibition had swept the South and that
| it looked as if Vermont was to be the
eastern state in the North to set the
| pace for the other northern states, he
/ declared that be was glad to speak
| here in the home town of the repre-
sentative. Francis e. Perry, who had
introduced the state prohibition bill in
i the legislature . He is an honor to
| his home town and a credit to the
state and when the law is passed he
will be honored among the men whose
names are written large in the history
Of the temperance movement.
On Eve Of Dry United States.
There are 10 prohibition states now,
and II others are to submit the ques
/ ton. The national house east ma
iority Of eight for national prohibition
and this was done with the entire
might Of the administration against
{ the movement on the infamous basis
of states rights 1t is remarkable, he
, declared, that this could be done I'M
: der the circumstances. He touched
, upon the prohibition movements in
other countries and declared that we
) and d dry world This is not side
: issue with the church but the very cen
ter of its task.
He referred to the world s champion
ship battle saying that a Kansan who
: was brought up in q state where they
t do not feed booze to boys had
{ knocked out the booZefghting Jael
f Johnson He then launched into factf
5 and figures concerning that dry state
), There are more children per capita il
e that state in the high schools of tht
t state than in any other state in thu
4 union. There are 20 colleges and uni
. versities in the state and there are 81,
|, 600 children of Kansans in them
There is one automobile owned in tina
state for every 13 people residen
therein. Thirty-six years ago the stat
was known as bleeding Kansas,
the poorest state in the Union. To
day it has the richest population O.
the globe with the exception of tn
state of North Dakota, another pre-
hibition state. This he attributed t
the 36 years of state prohibition.
''If you of Vermont see your wa
clear to tackle this great questio
next spring YOU will be doing the big
gest thing for the Christian religion
your homes, your industries, your chi
,
nation that you can do. -
The liquor dealers say the tempe
anee wave is only spasm. He decla
ed it was an avalanche, the result
certain forces that have been at wol
for years, and will crush the busine
u to death. The International Sunds
school quarterly began 35 years ago
4 print temperance lessons that ha'
been written indehbly upon the min,
of two generations and millions
Sunday school scholars. We are nc
getting the results. The w. C. T.
began % years ago to insist up
scientific teaching in the schools
ed the danger of alcohol to the syste
The life insurance companies have 81
en- some of them, lower rates to tot
abstainers. The railroad and stea
err ship companies, the navy and tho
sands of business men are reauiri
err teetotalers only on their pay rolls.
of power this side of the throne of G
ed can stop this avalanche and God is
be the temperance side. John Bari,
ZEN corn is as much doomed as was Jud
he Iscariot.
of Various Methods Fail.
yer They say prohibition does not p
Oh, hibit. Ask them what does. We ha
wasted years trying every othef me
We Cd suggested. We have tried mode
aor ton by total abstinence from spil
md uous liquors and they doubled up on |
gu others and got drunk We have tr
the total abstinence against all and n
to lions have signed the pledge. III
i've was all right for the strong mind
be but it failed to help the others q
we'd left the saloon an open temptation.
of Then we tried license. This is nc
the II permission to do the wrong TIL
on by making it a source of revenue. 7
ma price of licenses was raised and