Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-20
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Des Moines, Feb. Goo west
young man, so west
How many recall that the advice
had very intimate relation To the tenn
! perance question: How many know
that it came about because OF the crosse
association in temperance work OF the
man Who uttered ii and the one 10
whom it was given?
The questions were asked in group
Of LEGISLATORS the other day when some
one profered the advice To one who
was talking slibly OF prohibition 10
move on westward and find field But
events of recent history are forgotten
easily.
Who that has heard from his own
lips me story OF that famous advice
as it came to him, Will forget i? Mr..
Grinnell had been dong lecturlng ana
preaching in Brooklyn, and at the oia
navy ward some seats had been nsseo
up for outdoor meetings where ne ex
horted the worhnen 10 better lives ana
temperance. Sometimes he spoke IN
hall Among his friends Vas Horace
Greedy. who occasionally filled IN Is
a speaker for temperance GrlnneA
had called on him 10 help at meeting
because CSr!nnell's voice had gwen out
and Greedy had not responded Inc
l2sxJ siav .Grinaell called a the tribune
office 10 chl6e the great journalist Tor
Lis failure 10 cone forward Then =
was tina: lireeIy. sseing that Grinnel
voice had broken, gave The famous ad-
vice
Go west. Young man. 80 Nest.
Grinren wanted TO help he temper
snce cause. Greedy was Q: like mind.
Out 81 their conversations grew the
plan Ultimately fer the founding OF
city from Which the saleon would pe
Vanished in advance
Il is just SIXTY years since Iowa be-
came prohibition state. The siatH-
tory prohibition provided for AZ that
tine was absolute and as rigid as II
~as possible 70 De r. ie Strangei.
enough i neaS the then newly organized
republican party which found il nee
.ssary IN orier 10 save lis Very He
- modify .ha prohibition of ls75, ana
mis- was done by adoption Of tne
wine and beer clause which permitted
sale OF native wire and beer. Nh
G-.nnen s,aunch prohibihonist as ne
uas. voted IN The STATE senate for the
clause ana always defended his vote
because il HELPED 70 naHe posslol
unite5 party for the more 1rauolohs
War times which followed. And the
"A!rse and Ser clause" Was the bass
G; Iowa saloons Tor many FEARS
The presen. prohiaitory liquor law in
Iowa Xas q growth. nor : sudden IN
sp.ra-.on out Of the turmoil OF the
cam .atzn which eliminated in May.
1872. came the Twentieth general as
se-rbly which met II January, 1874,
and Ike q thunder clap came senate
file Ne. J. by Donnan which embodied
most Of that which finally hecan me pro-
hih.tfor in Iowa Il Has that legisla-
.ure and the three or four which fol-
lowed which gave Iowa as tight q pro-
hibi.ion Law as was ever put into
code. There we're giants in those
days" Who has there been 70 follow
The unique Talton E Clark, towering
above all Others and his long arms
swinging wildly over the heads OF SEN
ators. and he could talk temperance
/ for hours-ant> did It. Then there sat
( in the Twentieth the quiet and
/ thoughtful Larrabae. no. always agree
ing with the radicals There was also
John L. Kamrar. Ben Mccoy. H w
Roshert. Lo, Abraham. Clifford 5. Rob
inson. Lewis Miles and ]. n. Sweeney
all still living and most of them ac-
I tive There, also, was the handsome
Timothy J. Caldwell, and almost
4 equally handsome J. K Graves and Ell
( N-ilkin-an with ChesterAeldian airs
! j C. Hutchinson. who afterwards be-
came The political victim Of the prohi-
ton fight, was there. and William G..
Donngn and P. N. sutton Later on.
in the days when legislators were
+ fighting fer prohibition. there came
( into the legislature John s. Wo9lson,
Lafa Young. Matt Parrot a. 3. Funk,
J 2. Harsh. B. r Vale and John
Scott The house ALSO had Some men
in those days since notable as for in
/ stance. 4. 3. Cumu1ins, Robert Cous-
+ ms. George Curtis. James 4. Smith. D
+ c. Chase, James E. Blythe " ".
1 Morrow. w s Nithrow. Silas Wilson.
j 4. Lyons. s. VI Weaver. G. L Dob
son, Phil Schaller, George ". Schee.
These we're all republicans. Among
the democrats were G. J. Hall 9. J.
Johnson, Frank D. Bayless. c. r. WHIT
ing, John Z. Craig. ". H. Robb. John
H Kea-iey. George w. Ball. D. NJ
Harris. Henry Stiger, John T Hau1il-
ton, ". W Dodge. p. B. Wolfe L. r,
Boiler. ". ]. knight William Grone-
veg. John Foley. c. 6. Hipwel ana Iry-
ing 3. Rtchman
The prohibitory law Of today wa7
made by these men. Some Of them
later had hand in modifying Il jus:
as the prohibitc-y Law OF 1855 was
modified TO meet conditions that ex-
listed.
The period following the first pro
hibition in 1915 was not marked by
any scenes ike those that followed thf
1884 law. In clearing OFT a Des Moines
saloon the other day q man brushed
the dust off a photograph of an inter
esting group. I, was the advance
guard of searchers in the prohibition
cause 1t embraced the following
men: Thomas Chapman, John Marlin
Frank z. Blyler. Joseph Mercer Franz
Pierce, Q. c. West, G. 3. Hamilton
George Cleggett, G.. w. Potts. The,
we're Des Moines constables. Thei
history is we'll known. They were typi
cal Of period which was a litera
reign of terror in Des Moines for sey
eral years. They recall the night o