Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-29
PLEAD FOR nation
VOID OF SALOONS
SPEAKERS OF FLYING SQUADRON
ASK VOTERS TO CAST RUM
FROM COUNTRY.
ALCOHOL is ASSAILED
Ors. Geisel and landrlth Cite Mass Of
Statistics Showing Harm Done
to People by Liquor
Traffic.

]. Frank Hanley, former governor oil
Indiana and regarded as the peer Of
any temperance orator in America to
gether with his coworkers make ur
the personnel of the third and last days
program for the session of the Flying
Squadron which has been In progress
in Ottumwa since Monday afternoon
John B. Lewis Is former member OF
the Massachusetts legislature and
Oliver Wayne Stewart Is former
member of the Illinois legislature
Miss Vera X. Mullin, the soloist, Is
well qualified for her work.
The second battery of the Flying
Squadron was greeted Tuesday by
medium sized audiences at the First
and Willard Street M. e. churches
DR.. Ira Landrith spoke first at the
First M. E. church while Dr. Carolyn
e. Geisel spoke at the Willard Street
church and then the speakers alter.
mated
DR.. Geisel spoke on the subject
1.-THE Business of Home" and her talk
made the home seem just as import
ant a business Is any Of the other
businesses and much more important
than most of them. She said that 1t
is the women's business to raise men.
that the saloon interferes with her
business and that the government has
no right to license the manufacture
and sale Of poison which ruins this
business. DR.. Geisel cited many fig
ures showing the destruction Of men
by alcohol, and among the mass of
statistics presented, told of Professor
Won Schaefer. German scientist,
who spent eight years in the Euro
pean city of Munich. which has the
reputation of drinking more beer than
any other city in the world. He found,
said DR.. Geisel, that seventy-two out
Of every hundred babies born in that
city were handicapped In the start Of
life by not being as bright as other
children, the direct influence of alco-
hol upon their parents. Then she said
that Professor Won Schafer came to
Maine, a prohibition state There at
ter much exhaustive study he found
that seventy-one oNt of every hun
dred babies born were entirely sound.
or about twice the ratio Of the sound
children in beer drinking Munich.
Surely Feel Responsibility.
DR.. Geisel said that surely the
American father thought as much of
his children as of the animals and
beasts in the pastures and hog stys.
And yet she insisted millions of dol
lars are spent annually for the raising
of better hogs, the fighting of the dis
eases of cattle and especially the hoof
and mouth disease which has been
raging for the past few months. But
there is no such amount for better
babies. The saloons are allowed to
faint the lives of children even before
they have a chance in life. She said
that the percentage of feeble-minded
children and people in the United
States has increased just i've hundred
per cent since the country went into
partnership with rum fifty years ago,
since the saloons have been licensed.
She appealed to the women to put the
demon rum out of business and said
that the only excuse for women vot-
ing was to do what the men had failed
to do with the right of suffrage, to put
out the saloon. During the interval
between the arrival OF DR.. Ira Ian.
drith, the audience sang hymns led by
Frederick Butler, with Mrs. Butler at
the piano. Mr.. Butler also sang sew
eral songs.
Dr.. Ira Landrith Speaks.
DR.. Landrith began with an explana'
ton of himself. He said that in the
whit }e 1,1y In 1Yoho,s nj
states now, what the people want are
dry candidates and that the party
which puts such men into the field Is
going to get the southern votes and
break up the solid south" DR.. Ian
drith said that there is much talk OF
starting new factories and industries
that clubs are formed for this purpose
all over the country, but stated tina,
this country needs not the protection
Of infant industries but the protection
of infants from the curse of the sa
loon. DR.. Landrith deplored the lack
of harmony in the church and sale
that if the church people had earnest
ly fought against alcohol, 1t woulc
now be thing Of the past, but unfor
tunately there has been dissension II
the church. He urged the members t
gather and to make good fight. He
urged church members to get out anc
vote on election day for the right OF
If they were afraid to vote, to stay
at home and let their wives 60 to tn
polls and register vote against the sa
| loon. The speaker said that vice !:
essentially weak that 1t Is braggar
and the difficulties of putting the sa
loon out OF business are vastly over
| estimated. That it is only to civic IN
dolence of the upright and not to tn
political industry of the vicious. tina
legalized iniquity owes its continues
existence. He continued saying tina
the Flying Squadron believes tina
there are no necessary evils, that If
thing is necessary it is not evil III
said that the line of least resistance
never the straight and narrow way
but the straight and narrow way Is tn
way to put the saloon out OF bushes
and he urged his audience to get on
and do this.
Honorable ]. Frank Hanley, torme
governor of Indiana and said to tn
peer of any temperance orators i
! America; Honorable John B. Lewis
former member Of the Illinois legis
|lature will be the speakers tonight a
the First Methodist church. Miss Yer