The Mankato free press., 1915-11-26

I'm the habit Of swimming i'm the com
paratively still pool where many do
the same thing, near the Niagara
Falls. This young man was strong
swimmer. but one day. while swim
ming too near the outer edge Of that
pool. he discovered. to his dismay.
that he was drifting away from the
shore. He struck out with all Of his
strength, but in vain. The mighty cur
rent had caught him II was Just a
little stronger then he had calculated.
The result was that he was borne TO
destruction. 81 IL was with King
Alcohol. A man Is just little weak
er than lie thinks he is. and the cur
rent bearing him on to the ruin OF
drunkenness is just little stronger
than he thinks II is. He swims a
little too near The danger line. and
discovers his mistake when II Is too
late to save himself.
Proud Of Our Liberties.
I'VE Americans are proud OF our
liberties" said Mr.. Christgau. but
while we never kneel before king or
kaiser for all these years. We have
been bowling in submission to the
bossism of the brewer. Liquor poll
tics Is responsible for the same of IL
linois. where liquor elected Lee
O'Neal Brown. put Lorimer over. and
made the great state OF Lincoln and
Grant disgrace. The last session OF
the Illinois legislature was absolutely
blocked for five weeks because the
brewers did not want the people to
rule themselves. You who have lift
cd up your heads In pride, COM
pairing your beloved Minnesota with
corrupt lllinois-you citizens of Min
nesota who think you are free and
rule yourselves, you cannot even
amend your constitution. the most
important thing in yonr state govern
ment. because the brewers have ruled
I'm the state legislature and to prevent
constitutional prohibition, have made
constitutional amendments practically
impossible"
The afternoon rally was closed with
prayer by H.. A. Fuller
The Evening Meeting.
Miss Jennie ellison opened the
evening meeting. Fred Willsey led In
prayer. Miss Hazel Reed played the
accompaniments to several hymns
which were sung by the entire gath
ering.
William Jcs5up remarked that as
the officers OF the corps were absent
, from the city. the conduct of the
meeting was left to the soldiers.
Captain and Mrs. +. A. Marshall and
Lieutenant L. ]. Hoffman were In
Minneapolis to spend three or four
days at a congress of the Army offi-
GERS of this province, consisting of Min
Northern Michigan. Commander Eva
Booth was to speak at this congress.
Mr.. Jessup incidentally spoke Of the
experiences that he had had with
King Alcohol. and OF his successful
revolt against that tyrant.
A vocal solo was rendered by Miss
Gladys Taylor.
Mr.. Wells In his evening address
spoke of the campaign that the drys
had waged In Hennepin county. He
spoke OF the automobile orators that
the prohibition headquarters had sent
out to all parts OF Minneapolis every
night for weeks. He spoke of his own
automobile being greeted with rotten
eggs In some quarters. He said he
felt in one way gratiHed ut the
thought that the arguments of the
salocn side were so weak that they
had to be reinforced with rotten
eggs, strong arguments. rcrhaps.
from one point of vi!w ." Without
much convincing force On the ques-
ton at issue.
Mr. Wells said he was not sure
that the drys had been actually de-
feated In Hennepin county. II the
actual real legal vote only was con-
sidered. He declared that he knew
that hundreds and perhaps thousands
of illegal votes had been cast for the
wet side in that campaign. He said
many of the disadvantages that the
drys were under i'm the county fight.
would not exist ir the statewide
fight The hoodlums from st. Paul
would be busy voting at home on the
election day, and the hoodlums of
Minneapolis would not have the same
chance TO bring them over for colon
lied votes. Nor could II be argued I'm
Minneapolis that the business of that
city would drift into st. Paul. I'm case
OF prohibition. as was argued in the
Hennepin county campaign. On elec-
ton day the prohibition supporters
would be active In getting a majority
in the Minnesota state legislature in
favor of wiping out the saloons.
Grilied Mr.. Dunn.
In his evening address Mr.. Christ
gau spoke of the work of w. w. Dunn
in the state legislature and accused
him OF being right I'm league with the
liquor interests. He declared that
the constitution of the state OF Min
nesota had been so amended under
Mr.. Dunn's influence tnat by requir-
ing a majority of all the votes cast at
a regular election to carry any
amendment. 1t had been made ex-
ceedingly difficult to amend the con-
stitution at all. This was done, he
said. in order that no amendment
might pass, providing for the wiping
of the liquor traffic from the state of
Minnesota.
A collection for the anti-liquor
campaign fund. was taken up at the
close OF the meeting. -