The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-02

saloon. but SOME Of Won can't. su
owe n go you tp help YOU
Declares Unending War on Saloon.
I've stood Tor more suoors and
SCOTS and insults. and had my life
threatened from one end OF the land
10 Tho other by Trims God iOrsaEou
Gang of thugs and cu'throats because
/ have come out uUcOmprOuisintl}
against them I've taken more dirty.
vile insults from this lowdown
bunch than from any one on earth,
but there ia no one that will reach
down lower or reach up higher or
wider 90 help out of the pits OF drunk
enncss than l.
The open saloon Is tho hutbed OF
anarchy. II les the Incubator OF pow
erty and crime and vice n is the
spawning place OF degeneracy.
Il don't know whether YOU ever
had anyone come 10 old Detroit 10
preach 20 these puss Quilted Holsters
but by the eternal God will When
We get the. preachers 10 do this and
quit talking about new Jerusalem
get the Presbytcrians 20 preach
about this instead OF prcfcrmont
when lot Of them haven't anything
70 prefer. and the Baptists quit yell
ing Water water. water and two.
thirds 81 their bunch going whore
YOU cant yet drop, wen clean mp
this saloon.tillcd brewery controlled
community for Christ Im going 90
skin EN-
you say YOU can't prohibit men
from drinking Why, II Jesus Christ
. ia
keep on in sin Just the same
But the law can BE- enforced
against whisky Just the same as II
can be- enforced against anything
else II YOU have honest officials To
enforce A.
"Or course # doesn't prohibit
There isn't law on the books Of
The state that prohibits We have
laws against murder DO they pro
hlbit' We have laws against bur
glary DO they prohibit We have
laws against arson, rape, bat they
donf prohibit
Would YOU Introduce a bill 10 re-.
peal all the laws that DO not pro
hibit Any law Will prohibit 10
certain extent II honest officials en-
force &c. But no law viii absoMtrly
prohibit We can make a law against
liquor prohibit AS much as any law
prohibits
"Or would you introduce a BIZ say
ing II YOU pay $1,000 q year YOU can
kill anyone YOU don't like. or By pay
ing 5000 a Year you can attack any
girl YOU want TO. or by paving 500 "a
year YOU can steal anything that
suits YOU that's what YOU do with
The diru,st. rotteuest gang this side
Of hell
You say for SO much year you
can hay, license ru MAX, stagger
ing, realing. drunken sots murdcrers
and thieves and yaFaAauds
You say BIZ You're too hard
on the whisky
II don't agree Not on your lfe
There WIS "a fellow going along
the pike and farmers dog ran
swapping IN him. He tried tu drive
y back with pltChfurk he carried.
and failing go DO So hc pinned n 20
the ground with the prungs OUT
came the farmer.
Hoy, why don't YOU use the 9th
cr end OF that fork
"iIr answered WHY didnt The dog
come an mt R.tl the other erde'
So n those. dirty dog. come af
me. IlI come back ! UduT intend
10 ~ oil az tangent and III leave
with tnrs. REMARKS
Tells story Of His Conversion.
INtutt.tLuf wears ago / walked
down 70 street 10 chicago ,u company
u..H #it" lHI players vino were
..n..s. 100 rHs world l-5me OF them
ar. dead now md We went into
saloon
ID, "H~ SUNDAY afternoon and We
-.f rtrh,d up and then Wen oar and
SAT down ua 10 corner never 40
b. CHAT stree. without thanking G1a
for Saving lac. II Was vacant Iof
at that time
We sat down ON q curling Across
the street company of mru Uu8
women were PLAYING Instruments
horns Gups ana slide ,rUmbun
and the others Wtr, singing the go
pei hymns that used to hear ms
mother sing back IN the lul cabin i'm
Iowa, and bach in tho old church
where ] used tu 20 tu sunday sChnu.
And God painted ON the canvas
OF my recollection and memory
vivid picture of the scenes of other
days and other faces
Many have Iuua since turned 90
dust / sObbod and subbed. and a
Young man stepped out and sand
we are going down 10 the Pacifc
Garden Mission. won't YOU come
down tu The mission | am sure you