The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-07-21
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r,,, declared what it has never sinc .
failed to declare,-that ony severn
ING the government. the Whole ;nsti
ment, can the power Oh 'ilS ot until the
thrno branches of our government, jul n,,t
cial legislative and executive are ~, one
into harmony and are diree io., W Srohie
governmental voice. VIII h"'
hilton become 1act - n thou
.Enr have we not witnessed IN ''iV ~
sand cities and in dozen a sta nv base
law and the courts oeheu' immunity
nubl!c officials who granted l,i hnught
- those who sold and those VINO p ouS -
and by the political parties oi ,,,t the
these delinquent executives Were out the
bired minions, the directed HANDS Vi ' ~,
d;rscting bodies, political parties lhat "a
their platforms openly announced NY ~
from the stump brazenly declared tl"t 49,
elected to power they m moSv r eS
..ITntil citizens having a common pun
nose of public policy get toge.neir, s ont
together and vote together, lea h a,e OF of
an9ireIy those other citizens VINO are VI
onotber mind as to the public questloIiS,
at issue they are as helpless as a houi'u
baying at the moon: 49, eo,dors
After paying a tribute TO 'h prnbib,tion
and leaders of the National Prohlpl'ioi =
novement for the forty-seven years Oh
it's history, Mr.. Polling pointed OUT tIiit
during this period twenty-one otner na
tonaJ nolitical organizations, INDIFFERENT
w hostile to prohibition have come INTO
existence and died. and that the anu
Iio,1or forces of the land have alreaoy
accepted two-thirds of the partyS ppo-
gram. namely. that prohibition Is the on,
~ solution of the liquor problem, ana
that national prohibition must be the ui-
innate goal. . 49,. .tba
,,,ultitudes are turning to say with us,
there can be no National Prohlpltlon
without a Prohibition party supreme at
Washington. ~ o.
House Divided Against 'se" S"'''o'
As an illustration of what he termed
the impossibilty of making any headWay
toward national prohlpltion III ,ht e. he
parties, Mr.. Polling here referred TO tne
campafgn now under way IN INDIANA
where "among the names OF the prolni-
nent democratic statesmen who are an
nounced to campaign on behaif OF the
election of Thomas Taggart to the united
States senate appear those of four con-
gressmen and one United States senator
who have with courage chanpioheu eho
Hobson amendment" ,
"The Indiana picture will be copied
before two years have passed, In every
state of the Union where the hquor
traffic is a controversial issue. Men VINO
desire to be politically honest, who have
political convictions that are not puI-
chasable either by gold or silence, VIII
find themselves compelled TO nght as
some are already lighting, Tor tne coin
initial of their parties to Prohibition.
Ladies and gentlemen of the conven-
ton. ten million citizens of this Repub-
lie whose votes are ours by every clainn
OF high principle, may not have seen
the Indiana picture as yet. But by the
blood of the innocent for ten thousand
years dripping from the fangs OF TINS
liquor Moloch, we pledge high heaven
and the state that before November q,
1916, they shall see it,
Liberal Party OF The United States"
Turning to the claims of the Prohibi-
ton Party to the support of the Pro-
gressive voters. Mr. Polling detailed the
fact that his party was 1.-The first to de-
clare for woman's suffrage. for civil
service reform, for direct elections. for
two-cent letter postage, for international
arbitration, against lotteries and gambl-
ing, for uniform marriage and divorce
laws, for a non-partisan tariff commits
sion. for an income tax, against child
labor. for the conservation of natural re-
sources. against white slave traffic, and
for National Prohibition
And because of this record and because
of the official dissolution of the pro
gressive party" Mr.. Polling added:
las you speak today, so speaks to-
morrow, by whatever name known, the
cradle here the child of Freedoms high
est hopes
AS proof of this claim, Mr.. Polling
pointed to the increasing list of legis-
lative victories eliminating in the cleo
ton of Charles H. Randall to the United
States Congress from the state Of Cali
fornia.
1--WE hear the tread of MANY feet"
recruits, and in the sky we see banner
first lifted by the Christian Endeavorers
of the continent but to which all the
fighting divisions of the temperance
army have long since repaired, and on it
we read "A Saloonless Nation by 1920
Comrades of the convention, 1t is sun
rise and the rays of lifting light have
faded that slogan away, and in its stead
/ read. "A Saloonless Nation Now And
by the grace of God and the votes of
the people. it shall be DONE
Have Discovered War!
Turning to the issue of war and pre-
paredness, Mr.. Polling said:
The prohibition party faces a chang
ing world. Pessimism cries, "a dying
world but out of this death will come
life. new world is in process of con-
struction.
God is teaching lessons to the chill
dren OF men, lessons reserved to no peo-
pie or tongue, lessons that many nations
are copying in blood. and that we must
arouse ourselves to learn il we would
avoid Christening.
I'VE have discovered War We thought
him heroic; we know him now as thrust
ing boys against bayonets; we see him
riding forth. not on a gaily caprisoned
steed but on the back of womanhood;
We thought him honorable; we find him
snatehing the savings of the poor, lay
ing mortgage on the possessions of
the child still in the womb, and tearing
up taeaues; We thought him chivalrous;
we md him fouling the bed of virtue
AND prostituting motherhood to make
young for his cannon He has lost his
cream coat In the trenches of Flanders
the honorss we pinned upon his breast
are buried beneath the ruins of Belgium
ana ne stands naked today on the shores
OF the lakes of East Prussia and on the
plains OF Poland. We painted him a
connoisseur of art and as a resnecter
OF the work of genius. but the smoke of
hnelms and the dust of Louvain have
ruined the picture. He is net English
ne Is not French, he is not German. he
is not Russian.-he is savage. He is not
Christian. for Christ is not a barbarian
TOR. iioi
But in the human mortgage war
places upon it's unborn generations. the
world counts it's greater losses, War
limits the future rather than checks
the present Let those worshippers or
Mars who point with satisfaction to the
stupendOus struggles of Nature which
90 seem to overcome the handican of
wars residue of interiors and weakIings
remember that 1t is not SO much what
the race is as what 1t might have been
see not the young men slain / see the
millions OF potential fathers DESTROYED
near not the walls of the dying. / hear
the cries of the never to be born. I ween
ior those who were and are not. but T
mourn for those who might have been
and who never can be-
Within the loins of those who fall
these millions of the strong.
The singers and the healers die. the
prophets and the seer