Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-31

a private charter. says to the officer, "Yor
stay out, and everybody else"
In the city of st. Louis. in the year 1909
! made a canvass Of the city. l did moi
take horn with me and blow it every time
was going down the street. That is the
way most of those fellows work. / hac
the assistance of the plainclothes men or
the police force for two years.
We found 81 clubs, Sunday clubs, that hat
membership of $4,000.
Now, God bless you, good people: YOU
don't think sixteenth inches ahead, of your
nose. You got mad at that saloon and you
don't know why. But those fellows have
told you that is where all the hell comes
from. And you never asked yourself the
question, well, after the saloon. what z
That never struck you. After the saloon
what7
lated place, comes the secret drinking place
And everything that goes behind a barred
door generally gets worse than better.
II / had my way about it, not saloon
in America would have q screen in the
front or on the door any more than res
taurant.
II IT. is right to take "a drink of beer OF
wine in church at the Lords table. it is
not wrong to take it right on top of that
table right there.
To allow people to get themselves SC
worked up about man taking a drink Of
wine in a saloon or at home and go to the
Lords table and take 1t, l cannot figure
1t out; that is just honest; can't under
stand 1t.
But you do.
The way to reduce drunkenness is to have
more public drinking. OUCH III
Did you ever attend a German picnic7
have. Where the beer Is free7 Did you
ever see anyone intoxicated there? / never
did.
But when you put the lid on, and there is
har lnf; hah ind he ali hos az
rs cents a bottle, the first fellows to 1t will
never give up, until they have got every
drop that is there.
am speaking only as a student Of con.
ditions; l don't want any offense taken at
anything l am saying. Why do you find
SO few drunkards amongst the Jewish peo-
ple7 They have carried their wine from
the time you meet them in history. And
there Is a lower percentage Of drunkenness
amongst the Hebrews than any Of the older
races.
What has happened to the Mohammedan
in the same period Of time; the Turk. who
is a prohibitionist, by religion7 Where Is
his race as compared with the chosen OF
God7
Why don't you use your common sense
Is there anything particularly defective
morally. with the German nation? ZAP
plause.)
got you back there.
And yet you poor, misguided people have
worked yourself into such q frenzy when
some blatherskite would get up and say that
drinking reduced the morality of the people
you believe 1t.
l defy any man in this audience, or any
man that may come to this platform, to
stand up and say that because he don't
drink anything stronger than grape Juice.
he is morally better than millions Of men
who use wine and beer and whisky every
day.
That Is the doctrine Of the Pharisee, and
nothing else; and simply because you call
It Dry, instead Of Pharsseeism, as Jesus
Christ did. does not change the fact Of the
thing.
The bigotry of religious fanaticism would
make the devil laugh.
Sane government.
Why Is 1t that these men who come here
from Kansas have to twist their state
mf pSt yoa As wor nsn shat Governor cspper
lad will be taken care of before this cam
paign closes. If Capper told the truth that
time. it Is the first time since he has been
governor that he ever did tell the truth.
when he was talking outside of Kansas. And
you can send him a telegram tonight that
Meeker said SO and invite him over here and
| will stand pat.
Now why Is it that these people, coming
from these places. are compelled absolutely
this platform last night said, right within
fifteen feet Of where am, II have not got
any facts with me; have not got my stuff
along, and the man who presided said.
What the hell is the differences; tell them
anything"
Too much government breaks down Of its
own weight
Now then suppose that we were going to
propose a law here for this state that we
would do away with all regulations in re-
would you stand for It'll Why, you would
think IL was idiotic,
Suppose we were going to pass law
here to destroy all regulations in regard to
the selling Of any commodity in this state
except liquor, you would think 1t was idiotic.
dangerous Of all things that men use, and
you still provide that they can have all they
want You don't want to control In any
way the dispensing Of it; just let it take its
own chances.
Now, my friends, this Is only the begin
ming Of your legislation. You will have
to pass a law for the purpose of enforcing it.
And you will have to direct yourselves to
this question:
form. so-called reform, when we have been
passing reform laws by the thousands, and
we get more people in Jail than we ever
had In the reform territory; we have got
more penitentiaries filled than we ever had,
and we have more law violation than we
ever had, in the face Of rs years Of re-
form
Did you ever think of thatl
Did you ever see one Of those cadaver
faced chaps come around and tell you how
the world Is going to hell. to the demni-
refers you to the criminal record Of the
country. He says, There she goes
Now at the same time that our jails are
filling up and our penitentiaries, there was
never time in the history Of the world
when there had been as many great move
ments. nationally speaking, for the ameliora-
ton Of the sufferings Of the unfortunate as
now. Never.
Now l am talking Of the currents Of &C.
tiyity; not the thermometer
The great things that are before our ma
tional legislature; before our state legisla-
lures; looking for shorter hours for women
looking for the saving Of children from be-
ing ground up in factories. industries; look
ing for pensions and compensations to those
who are injured in the train service; all OF
these things.
Dou you. find the drys boosting these
movementsf
/ defy you to show where the Anti Saloon
League of America yet ever, in one state
in this nation, or at the national capital
has gone to the front for a single law for
shorter hours or child labor or for any OF
those things that make the conditions Of
man better.
Now let us consider this for moment.
eminent, community. Now we are Just
as good as we are or we are just as bad as
we are. individually, regardless Of anything
that the government might say to us at this
moment.
We pass a dozen ordinances now these
twelve rules are to regulate this society,
and we go about our business. Every
time we violate one of these twelve ordi-
nances they grab us and fine us or put us
In Jail and turn US loose again. Well, we
po along with fhasa tuvalya for while
and we have another meeting. and we enact
twelve more; we have another meeting and
we enact twelve more; and at the end OF
ten years, where we started with twelve
we now have one hundred. That means
there are one hundrd chances to grab every
man in the crowd where there were twelve
in the beginning; he has one hundred rules
to keep where he had only twelve. The
chances are that no man can obey all OF
these rules: he breaks one of them; he Is
grabbed and taken into court, ground
through the mill and marked a criminal.
You remember what Jesus Christ said