The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-11-26
Uncle Sam Accused
From Tuesdays Oaliv.

From, TUESDAYS Oaiiv.
II am six feet four and half
inches tall, I wear a thirteen shoe, a
twenty and a half collar and seven
and Ave eighths hat, weigh 319.
pounds, am married and ! have a
bald head"
II was thus that ]. W. Huddleston.
once a member of the Indianapolis
police force. now q travelling prohibi-
ton speaker and singer. introduced
himself last evening at the closing
meeting of the series of anti-liquor
rallies. held at the Salvation Army
hall.
His piano accomplishments were
played by his travelling partner, +. w.
Tough. also OF indianapolis. The two
are canvassing the state. calling
themselves the Clarions. and making
ready for a campaign To elect a pro-
hibition legislature next fall. Mr..
Tough is no giant, but he is an en-
thusiastic speaker.
A resolution. drafted by COM
mittee that was appointed at the
afternoon rally. was unanimously
adopted last evening, reading as
follows:
Resolved. that we hereby declare
ourselves i'm favor of immediate state
wide prohibition for Minnesota and
pledge cur support towards securing
the same" The committee consisted
Mrs Aida Sherk. Rev. ]. NJ. Fiorell
and H. c. Thompson.
hin, Inu-f, Hnaplt. Jnun
This fierce old king with his serpent
crown.
He shall reign no more in city or
town.
For well bury him deeply down"
The above is the chorus OF one of
the songs TO John Barleycorn. rem
dered by Mr. Huddleston.
Here is another:
THE pail that holds the milk today
He used to fill with beer.
But he's not spent a cent for drink
In now almost a year.
Just look into the cupboard. oh,
There's sugar. -four and tea.
And that is what cur God has done.
Has done for Jim and me-
Uncle Sam Roasted.
Mr.. Tough roasted Uncle Sam him
self for being I'm league with the
liquor traffic. He declared that the
liquor business was brought into
prohibition territory whether state.
county. city or village. by the medium
of the post office. The post office
distributed the advertising literature,
gave the money orders. and carried
the orders for liquor TO the brewery
and the distillery. Then the liquor
came to one of Uncle Sans bonded
warehouses. and Uncle Sam thus
brought the liquor into dry territory.
where the people were trying TO vote
II out.
The speaker related an instance OF
one man In n dry town in Iowa
getting sixty gallons OF beer per week
made at st. Paul. and IL was labelled
for his own personal use. He de-
clared that In this way the federal
government rendered state. county or
local prohibition ineffective. com
pared with what II might be. If the
nation took a hand 10 stamp out the
manufacture. distribution. importa-
ton or expectation OF liquor.
Bill to Be Introduced.
Mr.. Tough declared that the state
of California had elected to congress
man who would introduce into the
coming session a bill that would make
prohibition. where II was enacted,
more effective. This man was Charles
H. Randall. His bill would provide that
the mails he closed against whiskey
advertising. His bill would also pro-
vide that no money orders should be
issued by the postoffice for the sale
of any liquor. In the third place this
bill would so amend the Webb-Ken-
yon law, now farce, so that the
shipment of liquor from wet into dry
territory by interstate commerce.
would be absolutely forbidden.
o. G. Christgau of the Hamilton
College of Law, located I'm Chicago.
conducted the meeting. Shortly be-
fore the adjournment he said: II
want you all TO take tonight's Free
Press and tomorrow's Free Press and
clip out the excellent reports of
these meetings: put them in your
family Bibles. and in after years,
show them to your children and say,
i was there"