The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-09-07
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IN h|N0T NEXT monday

gressive party should become a prohi-
bition party. But when the progress
sive national convention in Chicago
declared in effect that they ought to
declare for prohibition, but that they
did not dare to make such a declara-
tion of principle, there was only one
recourse left to Mr.. Hanley.
This great orator, of such high prin-
ciples( sterling integrity Of character
and fine fighting qualities in great
moral cause) is to be in Minot Mon
day evening, Sept. 18th, from eight to
ten. On the same train will be vice.
presidential candidate, DR.. Ira Land
nth, noted scholar, educator and or
ator; Ex-Governor Foss of Massachus-
etts, one of the great men of recent
political history; the Hon. Oliver w.
Stewart, former prohibition represen-
tative in the legislature of Illinois and
now national chairman of the prohibi-
ton party, himself a remarkabl
strong and able speaker; and other
men of note.
There is no superior Of Mr.. Hanley
on the American platform as an ora
tor on the subject of prohibition.
enough to hear him at the opera house
next Monday may be judged partly by
this excerpt from his great speech in
the Indiana republican convention of
1908
81 Hate IT,
PERSONALLY have seen so much Of
the evils of the traffic in the last four
years, so much of its economic waste,
SO much of its physical ruin, so much
of it's mental blight, so much of its
tears and heartaches, that I have
come to regard the business as one
that must be held and controlled by
strong and effective laws. | bear no
malice toward those engaged in the
business, but I hate the traffic.
81 hate its every phase; I hate it
for its intolerance. | hate it for its
arrogance. I hate it for its hypocrisy.
II hate it for its cant and craft and
false pretenses. ! hate it for its COM
rercalism ] hate it for its greed
and avarice I hate it for its sordid
love of gain at any price. I hate it
for it's domination in politics. | hate
lit for its corrupting influence in civic
affairs. I hate it for it's incessant eff
country: for the towards it makes of
public men. hate it for its utter dis
regard of law. ] hate it for its ruth
less trampling of the solemn compacts
of state constitutions. I hate it for
the load it straps to labor's back; for
the palsied hands it gives to toll; for
it's wounds to genius; for the TRACE
dies of it's might-have-beens. l hate
it for the human wrecks it has caused.
I hate it for the almshouses it peo-
pies; for the prisons it fills; for the
insanity it begets; for its countless
graves in potter's fields. I hate it for
the mental ruin it imposes upon its
victims; for it's spiritual blight; for
it's moral degradation. I hate it for
the crimes it has committed. I hate it
for the homes it has destroyed. hate
it for the hearts it has broken. I hate
it for the malice it has planted in the
hearts of men.
~ hate it for the grief it causes
womanhood-th ssalding tears, the
hopes deferred, the strangled aspira-
tions, its burden of want and care.
II hate it for it's heartless cruelty
to the aged, the infrm and the help
less; for the shadow it throws upon
the lives Of children; for it's mon
strous injustice TO blameless little
ones.
"I hate it as Abraham Lincoln hated
slavery And as he sometimes saw in
prophetic vision the end of slavery and
the coming Of the time when the sun
should shine and the rain should fall
upon no slave in an the Republic, so
sometimes seem to see the end of this
unholy traffic"
Do not fail to hear the greatest
American orator on the question of
prohibition at the opera house, Mon
day evening at eight o'clock.