Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-04-02
which heads this article.

enthusiasm with his address on
Wednesday. In graphic and tell
ing language he explained the
difference between temperance and
prohibition in part as follows:
Poorly informed people say there is no
difference between temperance and pro-
hibition. There is the whole wide world
of difference between the two. Temper
ance deals with the individual. Prohib-
ition deals with the drink. Temperance
has to do with the attitude of the individ-
ual toward. drink habits and drink GUS
toms; prohibition has to do with the at
titude of the government toward the
drink traffic and the drink business.
But" someone will ask. (which of the
two ought we to work at?" The answer
is that we ought to work at both. In
other words, take the drinker with the
left hand of temperance and draw him
one way and take the saloon with the
right hand of prohibition and pull it the
othor way, thus holding the drinker and
the saloon apart and the man will be
kept sober.
Miss Vera K. Mullin, soprano
soloist with the last group, sang a.
number of songs and SO delighted
the audience with her beautiful
tones that. they were 10th to let
her go.
Lastly came the "big gun" of
the Flying Squadron-Ex-Gov
Hanly-who held his audiences en-
tralled with addresses that were
truly masterpieces of sustained
eloquence. Here are few rea-
sons that he gives for his fight
against the liquor traffic:
bear no malice toward those engaged
in the liquor business. but hate the
traffic.
hate its every phase.
hate it for its intolerance.
hate it for its arrogance.
hate it for its hypocrisy; for its cant
and craft and false pretense.
hate it for the human wrecks it has
caused.
hate it for the almshouses it peoples;
for the prisons 1t fills: for the insanity it
begets; for its countless graves in potters
fields.
hate it for the mental ruin it imposes
upon its victims; for its spiritual blight;
for its moral degradation.
hate it as Abraham Lincoln hated
slavery. and as he sometimes saw in
prophetic vision the end of slavery and
the coming of the time when the sun
should shine and the rain should fall upon
no slave in all the Republic. so some
times seem to see the end of this unholy
traffic, the coming Of the time when. if it
does not wholly cease to be. it shall find
no safe habitation anywhere beneath Old
Gory's stainless stars.
Following the leader of the Fly
ing Squadron came DIR. Weaver,
who introduced the following res
olutions which were carried with
J acclaim and unanimity by the
largest audience that had been
gathered in this city for many
day:
Resolved. That we. the people of Rocky
| Ford and surrounding country, assembled
I in this the sixth service of the Flying
Squadron CT America in its campaign
here, hereby express our high apprecia-
| ton of the work done.
All the addresses were Of a very high
order entertaining. literary. patriotic.
truly Christian and inspiring.
Never before have we as community
gained such a bright vision of the ad-
vsntaRes, necessity and therefore possi-
bility of national prohibition.
The music, both vocal and instrumental.
has been soul-inspiring. worthy of the
great artists who have rendered the
same.
We congratulate Hon. j. Frank Hanly
on the foresight that enabled him to form
ulate such gigantic plan and with his
CO. workers to carry it out to so splendid
an issue as that already reached, in
which we have the earnest of a great
and glorious victory.
| We also exercise our right as American
citizens to suggest to the American
people that when the time comes-it is
near at hand-when our nation must have
president devoted to national prohibi-
ton that his name might well be "Hon.
J. Frank Hanly. U. S. A"
Express Appreciation
We desire to express our deep gratitude
and appreciation, first to the members of
| the band who net the Flying Snuadron