South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-01
ANTI-SALO MEN
OPEN FIGHT HERE
Speakers Discuss Liquor Cues
ton in Local PuIpitS-De-
trOit Man Speaks.

Collections made in various churches
Of the city Sunday to aid the Anti
saloon league in carrying on the work
for statewide prohibition amounted
10 more than the collections made at
the last field day two years ago. At
the First Baptist church in the morn
ing the collection was $3.50, and at
two other churches the collections
were considerably larger. At one
meeting the loose collection amounted
20 as much as the subscriptions at the
same church two years ago. The
total collection at all the churches
amounted TO considerably more than
81. 600
Meetings were held both morning
and evening by Anti.Saloon league
workers. The purpose in holding the
meetings was TO center attention on
the work OF making Indiana dry" in
1917. and also to arouse interest in
the state convention Of the Anti-Sa-
loon league to be held in indianapolis
on Nov. 1911 II is probable. as a
result OF the sunday meetings, that
several churches. both I'm South Bend
and Mishawaka, will send delegates To
that convention. The work OF the
convention will be to start a non
partisan movement for the nomination
Of dry" candidates for the legisla-
ture.
Detroit Speaker Confident
The principal speaker Sunday was
J. s. Crandall, a lawyer, Of Detroit
Mich. In the afternoon Mr. Crandall
addressed a mass meeting in the First
Methodist church, and in the evening
he spoke at St. PauPs Methodist
church. At these meetings he de
clared himself confident that Indiana
would go dry in 1917. In his even
ing address he said that he felt sure
that Michigan would go dry" i'm 1916
because the election law had been so
changed that the opposition could not
steal the election. as had been done
last time. He also said that he felt
confident that Ohio would go dry"
next Tuesday, and that in the near
future Illinois would follow suit. thus
placing the -four best states in the
union" I'm the dry" column.
In his evening address Mr.. Crandall
paid little attention to detailing the
damage wrought 20 the home by
liquor The facts in that connection,
he said, were once the pith of the
temperance arguments, but now the
question should be considered in it's
broad aspect The question appealed
10 him. he said. as il should appeal to
every honest business man. for he had
looked at it from. every angle and had
found il not = goOd-lOoking institu-
ton.
The speaker presented his subject
briefly and in 81 bstance as follows:
Calamity National i'm Scope.
ut is terrible to note when one man
goes wrong and permits liquor to
destroy his home life, but it is much
more terrible TO note that 10000 600
men are doing likewise and are un-
fitting themselves for the important
work Of life. When the evil is so
extensive il becomes national calam-
ity more than personal one.
The saloon has never done one
good thing, but ii has made So per
cent Of the paupers Of the country rs
per cent OF the insane. and so per
cent Of the criminals. These unfOrtu-
mates are the direct result and the
finished product of the saloon; they
are people who if it had not been for
the saloon. might have been clean,
honest, reputable citizens.
Considering the subject in the light
Of the Bible. which says. No drunk
ard shall enter the kingdom Of
heaven the calamity of the saloon
becomes a civilized world calamity.
The great problem of meeting the is
sue comes back 20 each one of us. If
every church member would rise up
and honestly determine TO do his duty
at the polls the next election would
sound the death knell OF the institu-
ton that is doing so much harm.
HandiCapS Postcrity.
The use Of liquor does harm not
only 20 the one who uses il but to
the unborn generations. for when any
man or woman becomes addicted TO
the use OF liquor their blood becomes
furnished and they loose the power to
reproduce their kind clean. Tt is one
OF the greatest crimes Of the age that
pOserity should thus be handicapped
IN doing the work which lies before it.
In all the attempts OF the saloon
men 20 justify the presence of the Sa-
loon they have never yet been able