Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-11

afternoon on The Trail OF the serpent
He said:
No earnest. honest or intelligent man
can deny that the saloons and drunken
ness are the curse Of the United states,
and those who love their country most.
the men most desirous for its best inter
ests and welfare. they hre among those
who most oppose this infamous business
that dsmns our land.
Judges. statesmen. lawyers, business
and professional men, laboring men and
the most RESPECTABLE of all classes in all
communities. all agree that II is the most
terrible blight and curse that ever reeled
out Of hell. and unless Il is stopped Il
will sap the vitality Of our nation and
overthrow our land.
This is a land OF everything that Is
good; this Is a land of happy homes,
Of beneficial influences, and OF liberty
! and OF martyrs in the homes and on the
battlefields.
This is the land Of Washington, who
was first in peace and first In war, first
in the hearts OF his countrymen; the land
of Thomas jefferson, the author OF the
Declaration of Independence; BENJAMIN
Franklin. the wisest Of our political fore
fathers; Alexander Hamilton, our finan-
cial high priest; the land OF Commodore
Perry who said: We have met the
enemy and they are ours"
Go to the prisons and see the long
lines of men, who have fought the booze
and who have let It conquer them, and az
result have committed some offense
which has taken them there.
Go 20 the divorce courts and listen to
the pleadings OF wives OF men who are
drunkards, OF go to the home where the
y serpent has left its Shiny trail as it
wound its way through the Kitchen.
spends Wtfe's Earnings.
The everlasting cry Of the drunkard
Is Drink, drink, drink" Supposiug
had wife that had promised to love,
cherish and obey, but / drove her TO the
wash tub to grind her life away in order
that l might spend what she could earn
for my booze.
Our great opportunity Is to step In
and help those people and do some
thing against this awful curse
1 wish l could unlock the door, gentle.
men, that concesls the secrets of this
damnabie charnel house, but l am here
to tell you sir, that God never gave any
man imagination powerful, nor lips moi
tongue eloquent enough, to picture Its
damnable wreckage and its ruin.
Bring before us all the good that any
saloon has ever done. What man haI
1t ever made happier? What home haI
It ever made happier? What girl has
it ever made purer? What father hal
it ever helped in any way to make hli
family happier and comfortable?
1t Is the most damnable thing that hai
ever fastened itself upon the people.
The schoolhouse lie the best thing evei
built. 1t keeps your boy from becoming
an empty-headed stupid The saloons
are built to keep your boy from being
man, from being decent, and to keep hin
from mounting to the heights Of success
and prosperity. Nothing, in my judg
ment, equals IT,
am a sworn enemy TO everything tina
is an enemy of my country. II a foreiS,
enemy should attack my country
would become bullet meat
/ say our enemy Is not a foreign
enemy, but grog shop Look at tn
miserable, blighting, damnable business
Go into your gin shops, gentlemen. AM
see the men lined up In front of tn,
counter
Look at the pale, pallid face, eye
large and sunken deeply I'm their sock
cts, with fingers like the claws OF al
unclean bird. He will quaff his glass
of grog and look as though he had crep
out of his grave and gone 10 a booz,
joint to get glass of beer and forEo
to 60 back to his grave and pull tn,
coffin lid over him.
See another with water-seared eyes
decrepit and his large. swollen lips
staggering in his idlocy and drunken
ness. He lie a man or would be maj
I If 1t were not for that damnable bust
ness.
Tesars Crown from Mans Brow.
Now God has given power and do
minion to man. Man is natures lSint
and yet what has broken his sceptr
and torn the crown from his brow
The saloon.
What has degraded man 30 that H.
is below the brutes and the hog II
the pen? The saloon.
Anything can do to destroy th'
liquor business. cost what it may. 1 vii
do. I'll pay any price. I'll go anywhere
I'll do anything that's right or I'll Civ,
anything in order 10 have put on th'
saloon the curses of the Almighty God
Only Potter's field. the prisons an'
the asylums are ready TO receive tn
graduates OF the saloon. The Tnoneylos
man is desTised and rejected Their
seems to be one set OF legislation 70
the rich and another for the poor. Yer!
often the question IL, "IIave you an!
money!
business is the word that will spell tn
saloons defeat IN the United states. VIII
pays the taxes in this state and nation
The saloonkeeper2 MOI no! no!
You are the people that pay the taxes
not that God-forsaken, pus-gutted gan
that runs the liquor business. We are
) conflict to put an end to this gang no'
and we've going TO win.
Money TO Fight sunday.
s They have subscribed 10000 just I
: fight me Well now they're going I
e have an awful fight. because I'm in thI
S thing 10 stay and to fight until the las
ounce of strength shall have left me.
k Let them come. I'll defy the dirt
$ bunch to the last ditch and they know I
: II hydrophobia produced one-milliont
8 part OF the diseases end trouble the Sc
loon causes every dog I'm America woul
3 be killed off before Monday morning.
The law surrounds and protects tn
q damnable saloon. Il hangs a man VIII
d Kills a person while in a state of drunl
e enness. but what does Il do to the ma