Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-04-02
BODY BLOWS AT BOOZE
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ed in the interests of uniformity of legis-
lation. What is crime in sixteen states
ought to be crime in every other state.
II a man makes and sells liquor in Kan
sas. we put him in Jail. II he makes and
sells liquor in New York and Pennsylva-
mia. the people send him to the legislature.
Such a condition of things is a legal
absurdity.
Fifth, the greatest need of nation al
prohibition is the need of humanity. If
people are worth more than property.
the liquor traffic ought to be abolished.
BY the common consent of intelligent
mankind alcohol is now known to be the
great common destroyer. As long as it
is made some one will want to sell it. and
others will want to drink it. The only
real remedy for the world is the complete
humiliation of the traffic by forbidding
the manufacture of alcohol as beverage
and medicine.
Another splendid speaker WAS
Daniel A. Polling, and here are a
few of the striking utterances he
made:
We would do infinitely better to license
pickpockets and thieves on our streets
than to license open saloons. The pick
pocket steals the pocketbook of your boy
and perhaps in some dark alley strikes
him down and kills him, but the liquor
traffic takes his pocketbook, takos his
life and damns his immortal soul.
The liquor traffic is an unmttigated
evil and as such must be destroyed.
Because liquor disease is national. the
Flying Squadron declares for a national
remedy = constitutional prohibition en-
trusted to political administrations out
spokenly committed to the national amend
ment and to the statutory legislation that
must everywhere be enacted to make
prohibition effective.
The call of the temperance and prohi-
bition reform is the challenge of highest
patriotism. America faces to-day the
nightiest domestic and foreign problem
of her eventful history.
fear no yellow peril to-day; fear no
foe that may embark from foreign
shore to do US hurt. fear this foe
within; this shaokler Of bodies. this i'm
povisher of industry. this moral dsspoiler.
this oorrupter Of government. Give
America clear minds. strong bodies. and
clean souls and she will meet and solve
every problem Of her present and future
as she has met successfully the great
problem of her glorious past. But
today
The soloist on Monday was ID.
w. Polling, who sang with fine
effect, his voice being a rich, full
baritone with large range.
The principal speaker on Tues
day afternoon was DIR. Ira Lam
drith, who proved to be one of
the most pleasing orators with
the Sqadron. Space permits us
to make but short quotation
from his address.
| The saloon is an unmixed evil and un-
mixed evils are never necessary evils.
Even Satan. whose it is and whom it
serves, has never been fooled enough to
call liquor selling virtue. Shall the
church now ground her arms because the
saloons have made of certain political
parties so many cities of refuge?
MEN ought always to pray"-for good
laws and good offioers-.and not to
faint'-in their endeavor to answer with
their resolute citizenship their own pious
prayers.
On Tuesday evening DIR. Carolyn
L. Geisel, ''the biggest little wom-
an of the world, held the thrill
ing interest of large audience as
she responded ''The Business of
Home" from which we take the
following excerpts:
1t is woman's business to raioe men.
Has the government the right to license
the manufacture and sale OF a poison
that ruins this business?
America doesn't need more lands. more
mines, more minerals or more money
she needs more men, and the American
home can produce men when the business
of the American mother is protected by
the American government.
We can no more raise sound men in
wet territory than you can raise sound
swine in an unsanitary pig sty.
The saloon is defeating woman's busi-
ness by cursing the unborn. The saloon
is destroying the American home by de-
filing the American man. The American
voter is called the defender Of the Amer