Middletown transcript., 1915-05-01
STRONG ARRANGEMENT OF RUM

On Monday evening at the Methods
Church, Rev. L. A. Banks, d. D., giv'
very fine temperance address to
good sized and highly pleased audience
made up of members from all the foul
denominations in the town.
DR.. Banks styled his subject, ''Johr
Barleycorn's Fight Against The Stars ,
and before he had concluded everyone
present was quite willing to admit that
the Saloons fight against the stars
of right, mercy, truth and justice, was
sure to end like thatof Sisera's, against
whom we read in Holy Writ that "the
stars in their courses fought. "
He showed the amazing growth in the
past few years of a worldwide opposi-
tion to the liquor business, how railroad
and other corporations were united in
forbidding theirsmllions of employees
to touch Intoxicating drinks of any kind
whether on duty or not; how the Gar
of Russia had temporarily prohibited
vodka, and then seeing the startling ad-
vantages resulting to the 165, 900, 900 of
his subjects from the resulting sobriety,
had banished vodka forever; how France
had done the same with absinthe; how
state after state had 'gone dry till 85
per cent. of the United States will be
prohibition territory when the constitu-
tional amendments passed in 1914 go
into effect!
He gave the facts proving that the
growth of the anti-saloon sentiment
was so wide and swift this whole
country over, that in short time by
the adoption of a constitutional amend
ment by 36 states, rum will put under
a ban throughout the whole Union!
That this result was clearly for
shadowed by the wonderful majority
in Congress this year in favor of such
an amendment to the U. S. Constitution.
The speaker made a comparison be-
tween Kansas a prohibition state for
the last 80 yeats, and Missouria rum
state, wherein he showed that dry
Kansas, though very much poorer in
natural resources and with less than
half the population of Missouri had
in those years become almost two times
as rich as Missouri, according to Govern
ment statistics! That in Missouri only
one person in 100 had an auto, while ir
Kansas it was one in four! That in the
panic of 1907, "wet" Missouri, and rich
big Kansas City dared not send dollar
to help tide over the New York money
stress, but dry" Kansas raised in {
jiffy $50, 900, 600 and sent it on to New
York City Rum Missouri has bis
state debt, "dry" Kansas none! DRY
Kansas has hundreds of empty jails anC
almshouses and 100 counties without ;
single Jail inmate wet" Missouri ha'
not one empty Jail!
DR.. Banks likened the past and pres
ent, ever increasing disaster Detailing
the liquor traffic to an avalanche which
was swiftly burying it forever! Tha
the whole business world had found ou
that Rum was the foe of the grea
modern idea, Efficiency" and that it
therefore, must go.
Rev. DIR. Moore who introduced DR.
Banks in a felicitous manner, told a
the close of the address, how for 10
years the people at Pigeon Run in thi
state were accustomed to includ
among their ordinary grocery stor
purchases, from one quarter to who'll
gallon of rum!
After the speaker had ended, liberia
collection was raised both in cash an
in pledges, in support of the Anti-Sa
loon cause, one helf to be used nation
ally and the other half for the locs
campaign in Delaware against the sa
looms.