The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-13

all Deen known TO operate at enc
time in America be placed side by
side they would reach 492 miles, from
| Chicago to Omaha. Does anybody feel
| like singing, What Shall the Harvest
Be-" Let me sing it. Fifty-two pcni-
| tentiaries, 1900 jails, 100000 crimi-
nails, and $6,OO0,O00,00O cost Do you
want to vote for that? Out of 100000
drunkards who step in the saloon
door January LIST, before December
31st, 10000 have gone to drunk
ards grave and a drunkard's hell.
One person dies from the whiskey
business every five minutes, twelve
die every hour, 800 day, 10000 a
year. II those hearses were placed
| thirty-seven to the mile, 1t would
make funeral procession 300 miles
long. The $4,000 orphans would belt
this globe three times, and every
fifth orphan would have by his or
her side widow with broken
broken health. Marching, marching
to, God only knows where. The sa-
loon is hells best asset; the devils
best agent; the serpent's best fang;
Gods worst enemy; the demon who
fits his subjects for the hospitals of
eternal incurables. For the sake of
God and man, the state and the ma
ton, vote 1t out.
Talk about booze helping business,
If we saved the money wasted on the
whiskey crowd last year in this ma
ton, we could have sent every ex-
press package, every letter and every
piece Of freight free Of cost. We pay
booze twenty times as much year
to disgrace the flag, as we ever paid
the soldiers to save it. I propose to
% f@p cSo s,,l1 10
of the free, and home Of the brave"
must not become the Land of the
spree and the home Of the knave."
When the Titanic struck the de-
spicable iceberg and 1902 went down
to a watery grave, the news. by
telephone, telegram and cablegram
and wireless telegrahy, was sent to
the ends of the earth. Our evange-
listic company was on our world-tour,
ten thousand miles southwest of San
Francisco, on the Pacific ocean. about
three days this side of New Zealand.
We received the news by wireless
telegraphy about 10 o'clock on Sun
day night, and there were many pale
faces on board our steamer, and the
whole world was bowed in sorrow.
Yet the booze business sends no.
900, unprepared, to drunkards' graves
nearly 100 times as many as lost
their lives on the Titanic, and that
too, be it said to our shame, by the
voice and vote of some OF our good
citizens, some of whom even dare to
call themselves christians. Talk
about the saloon-keeper; the only
saloon-keeper on earth is the man
who votes to keep the saloon. When
the Titanic went down, that Inflated
captain called out, women and chill
dren first" Let US be as gallant and
vote to save the women and children
first, and let the devil take care Of
his own headquarters on earth, the
booze joints
Right to Be Born Right.
A child has right to be born
right. l was in city where little
baby was born, whose father and
mother were both drunkards; the
child was covered with sores. and
fortunately only lived seven days.
was in another city. In the same
state, where a babe was born with
both feet rotted. Those children were
damned into this world. and not born
into this world. Richard P. Hobson,
In his address before congress, gave
statistics gathered from Great Britain
and the United States. and showed
that in England ten families where
ten fathers and mothers both drank,
that II percent of the children were
normal, and where neither father or
mother drank "a percent of the chill
dren were normal. In other words
81 out of every 100 children born, are
begging us, for their sakes, to vote
out the booze and give them their
right 10 be born right 1t seems to
me that If man wouldn't even give
rap for himself or his wife, for the
sake of his unborn children, he ought
to say, God helping me. l will be
man."
This Personal Liberty league is GER
tainly a bunch of white-washed
skunks. There is a wonderful differ
ence between being white-washed and
washed white. Personal liberty for
whom? For a man to I'LL his hide
with red whiskey, to soak his BODY
with hell-fire in solution? to pickle
his brain? to rot mis- bowels? to tan
his stomach and damn his soul? Per
sonai liberty to go on and beat his
wife: thump his children; disgrace
his name and make his sleeping
room look like a garbage can. Per
sonal liberty! Personal liberty! 1t
is time to talk about personal liberty
for the wife and the child, and not
for those skunks, turtles, Holsters,
snakes and bats, who disgrace them
selves, defy the law, disregard man
and become a curse to this country.
| would be ashamed to show my face
with one of those nauseating. dis
graceful brutal buttons pledged to
these pot holes of pollution. These
bloated faced "boozers" tell us we
have no right to interfere with their
business. In time of war, for the
protection of this nation, Uncle Sam
took the heads of families and put
them at the cannon's mouth to save
this nation, and in the time Of peace,
we ought to take every whiskey bar
rel and beer key and blow their heads
off, for the protection Of this very
same nation.
am told that a California man
h,,il+ n house out Of different pieces