Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-01
10000 MEN PROMISE
TO VOTE AGAINST RUN
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vote for the crooks who back Up the
rotten business It's worse than murder"
He jumped to the top of the pulpit and
shook the flag in the faces Of the thou
sands
you've got to go over my dead body
to get to themp' he cried. over my
dead body and trample this flag into the
mud and filth to drag them TO drnnkards'
gravesl
SAY, you men Of Philadelphia, give me
your VOWS that. II you ever get the chance
to vote her dry, you'll do III Come on, all
YOU who'll promlsel Get up and let's have
r look at you"
Twice yesterday, when he shouted those
words. the tens of thousands surged to
their feet and the great demonstration
was on
| 1t was finale to sermon that scored
/ tho farmer who sold his grain to the dis
| tillery; scored the man on his way to
| Church and to Heaven" who was going
/ straight to hell" since he voted for rum;
| scored those who asserted tax rates
| jumped UP when whisky jumped out;
scored those responsible, through llquor,
| for the hordes In insane asylums, aims
| houses. IN penltentlaries waiting fer the
| electric chair, and scored those respon-
sibe directly and indirectly, for the
COZ WHISKY orphaned children in
America.
Tho words Of Lincoln, Mckinley and
Roosevelt against liquor were quoted by
the evangelist and they were cheered TO
ne echo. Sunday grabbed his American
dag, crying:
Every plot raised 10 overthrow the
United States Government and trample
under foot this glorious old flag, wrlggled
and crawled out of the pit of hell!' That
hell was "lquor hell"
STATISTICS ON LIQUOR.
The farmer got so cents for bushel Of
corn The brewer made 36 pints from IT,
with three OF those plnts, sundsS
wrecked eight lives and sent three per-
sons to the gallows. He told of what the
Federal pure food laws said beer should
be made of. what it really was made OF.
and he hit at the Administration that
kicked out old Doc Wiley, the best friend
OF the american people," He showed that
only 10 to 10 per cent. OF the whisky ON
the market was pure, actually bottled In
bond"
He said that it was Just as easy ito
regulate a powder mill in hell' as TO
regulate the whisky traffic by high IL
Cense. Everything good was opposed to
1t and everything bad was for 1t. Frater-
nal organizations. So of the 81 leading
ones in America. would not admit as
members persons connected with the rum
business. His statistics made men gasp.
He placed the saloons Of the country side
by side. Their fronts made solid wall
from Philadelphia to Denver He sounded
a funeral dirge and a funeral procession
of 100000 hearses yearly crossed the con-
tinent from New York to Seattle. They
were carrying bodies of those who died
directly or indirectly as the result OF
drink.
Eighty died because of it every hour;
1000 every day. He took insurance com
pany figures. The total abstainer lived
% years: the moderate drinker 81; and
tho heavy drinker only S5. He hit at
"the high-toned saloon"
The applause was uproarious when he
spoke of John Mitchell, labor leader, who
said that, as the labor movement grows,
temperance grows. The man with the
dnnerpaIl, Sunday cried. was the neme-
sis of the saloon That man was crush
ing it to its doom. The United States
has lost So 100000 IN liquor revenue, as
shown by the November statements.
Politicians" he shouted, 'see the sa-
looms doom written large across the
land. They see they cannot staVe off
national prohibition more than 10 years!
The railroads are against liquor. When
n man comes up for election, il he be
Republican, Democrat or Progressive,
and he's in favor of the saloon, to hell
with him. To hell with him.
The congregations cheered wildly, as
Sunday plunged on, spending for meat
and clothes and flour, things to wear or
to put into one to make bone and muscle
the 1920 10000 spent on booze in Amer
lea last year"
With effective acting, striking word
pictures, he told of outrages committed
by drunkards He pictured young man
staggering across the streets of Chicago
one Sunday morning to get drink,
knocking down his sister when she came
to demonstrate with him and shooting
dead the man who interfered.
Sundays Sermons on Pages 8, A and 5