The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-03-11
Former Candidate for Press
ident Speaks to Big Crowd
at the Coliseum Tuesday.
KING ALCOHOL A HOBO
Famous Leader of Temperance Forces
Makes Gtrong Presentation of the
Cause of Prohibition.-Liquor Argu.
ments are Like Cockroaches.

Hon. John G. Woolley, one time cane
didate of the prohibition party for
president. of the United States. spoke
to a large audience in the Lyceum
course at the Coliseum last evening.
The address was general discussion
of the liquor traffic, though many other
subjects were touched upon under the
theme, "The Christian Man in Poll
tics" The question of woman suf-
frage was referred to, for the reason
that liquor dealers fought it. The
Liquor Dealers Association, y he said,
is the most predominant single or
ganization in political affairs in Wis
consin. At the last election at which
there was no dearth of other great and
exciting issues, they yet saw fit to con
centrate all their force against woman
suffrage. That showed what they
thought the woman Is vote would do.
It made me strong for woman Is suffrage.
No decent woman will ever line up
politically with the man who is trying
te debauch her son or ruin her daugh-
ter. A man will march with anything.
But a woman will have clean party
or know why"
Mr.. Woolley spoke at length Of his
experiences in the prohibition party,
and the failure Of that particular form
of fhs mogslnent to get 8oid q ne vote
Of the ank and fls of Ghmstiss
They preferred 10 begin locally. and
work up to the national issue, eather
than to begin at Washington the Anti
Saloon League provided the methods
for this and was therefore successful.
The early agitation had been success
ful in making the issue plain.
The most emphatic and finished por-
items of the address were those in
which the speaker appealed to the
Christian man to do his duty as a eiti-
zen, and in which he scored the liquor
traffic fThe Christian man, he
said, Unjust make good in politics.
Stop dreaming in the book of revela-
tioI, mobilize the book of Acts, and not
simply be good, but make good as a
citizen. The Christian man must repu.
date the caucas system in all its
forms, whore clever sneaks outclass
honest people. He must become an en-
forcer of law. He must be a clamorer
at the halls of Congress. He must be-
come winner of elections Who is
the Christian man? He is anybody
who accepts the Jesus Christ theory Of
human life. These are the people who
must grapple with our great problem.
You don It expect the saloonkeeper and
the pimp and the brewer and the plug
ugly and the crook to do it. The
Christian man must jump into the mid
die of politics in his home town and
stay there, win or lose"
The speaker told of the garbage
mans estimate Of the new family who
had moved into the neighborhood.
HThey have the SWEETEST swiE in the
block" That is the world 3 estimate
OF our beautiful Wisconsin metropolis
Milwaukee. You do lot need TO
be told that the liquor traffic is bad.
II men are too busy to vote on it just
enfranchise the children of the graded
schools, not even including the high
school; let nobody else vote but the
children, and they win carry this
country for prohibition hands down,
and do it on intelligent grou-ds. The
smallest child on your streets knows
what is wrong here.
King Alcohol is no king-its a
hobo. An absolute pigmy, even in Wis
consin, once the self respecting men
unite and do their duty. Shakespeare
tried to describe it once, but this poe
try got the best of him; he called it
devil. It is not so important as that.
It is no Prince of darkness, or any
other kind of prince. It is the cock
roach Of industry; the louise of human
liberty; the filthy housefy of domestic
peace. and we are going to swat it
presently in Wisconsin. IF the cock
roach could talk it would put up thei
same argumel do the saloon men;
Afg dear Maeam, prohibition doesn It
prohibit; drive me away and / will go
into the cracks and hatch lot Of lit
tie eoekroaehes which viii be harder to
catch. If the louise could speak it
would argue like the brewer; it would
tell the mother she hadn't any right to
clean her child S head; the child had
right to personal liberty.
For every reason why yoa ought to
have Lyceum course, the liquor traffic
ought to die For every reason why
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