The Detroit times., 1916-10-02

Tor the SNloohk'epei WINE YOU Hhff
o. hOtfoot n.
by the grace Of Cod have
strength enough 20 pass the open
saloon, bur some Of you can't, so ]
owe 1t 10 YOU 20 help you.
Declares Intending War on Saloon.
I've stood for more sneers and
SCOTS and insults, and had my life
threatened from one end Of the land
20 the other by this God -tOrsaken
gang OF thugs and Cutthroats because
j have come out uncompromisingly
against them. I've taken more dirty,
vile insults from this lowdown
bunch than from any one on earth.
but there II no one that will reach
down lower or reach up higher or
wider 10 help out Of the pits OF drunk
enness than
THE open saloon IS the hotbed OF
anarchy II is the incubator of pov
erty and crime and vice II Is the
spawning place OF degeneracy.
II don't know whether YOU ever
had anyone come 20 old Detroit 20
preach 10 these puss Quilted Holsters,
but by the eternal God I Will When
We get the preachers 10 do this and
quit talking about new Jerusalem.
get the Presbyterians 10 preach
about this instead OF prcfcrmeut.
when lot OF them haven't anything
10 prefer and the Baptists quit yell.
ing Water, water. water. and TWO
thirds OF their bunch going whore
YOU can't get drop, well clean mp
this saloon flled. brewery controlled
! q 90 t,,ff g. - 60.
skin 'cm
You say YOU can't prohibit men
from drinking Why. II Jesus Christ
was here today some OF you would
keep on in sin just the same
But the law can be enforced
against whisky just the same as Il
can be enforced against anything
else, II you have honest officials TO
enforce H.
"Of course It doesn't prohibit.
There isn't law on the books of
the state that prohibits We have
laws against murder DO they pro
hibit? We have laws against bur
elary 10 they prohibit? We have
laws against arson, rape but they
cont prohibit
" ''Ahb H'A illNt bA4hNf ~ bllA W ~
peal all the laws that do not pro
hibit' Any law will prohibit 20 a
certain extent IN honest officials on
force A. But no law viii absolutely
prohibit We can make law against
liquor prohibit as much as any law
prohibits.
cor would YOU Introduce bill say
ing If YOU pay $1,000 year YOU can
kill anyone YOU don't like ar by pay
Tag 5000 n 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 dirtiest, rottenest gang this side
Of hell
You say for go much a year YOU
can have a license 20 make stagger-
ing. reeling, drunken sots murderers
and thieves and vaEabOnds.
You say, Bill you're too hard
on the whisky
Il don't agree Not on your life
There was fellow going along
the pike and farmer dog ran
swapping ar him He tried 10 drive
l. back with pitchfork he carried,
and failing 10 do so he pinned II TO
the ground with the prongs. Out
came the farmer
Hey. why don't you use the 9th
or end Of that fork
He answered. Why didn't the dog
come al me with the other end?
80. Il these dirty dogs come at
me. III come back ! didn't intend
10 go of at tangent and III leave
with these remarks
Tells Story Of His Conversion.
Twenty eight wears ago | walked
down a street in Chicago in company
with some ball players who were
famous In this world (some OF them
are dead now and We went into a
saloon.
II was Sunday afternoon and We
got tanked up and then went out and
sat down on a corner, never 60
by that street without thanking God
for saving me II was "a vacant lot
al that time.
We sat down on q curblnE Across
the street company OF men and
women were playing instruments
horns, flutes and slide trombones
and the others were singing the COS
pei hymns that used 90 hear my
mother sing back in the log cabin i'm
Iowa, and back In the old church
u here / used rs 20 to Sunday school
And God painted aa-tho canvas
Of my recollection and memory a
vivid picture OF the scenes of other
days and other faces
Many have long since turned 20
dust sobbed and sobbed. and
young man stepped ont and said
I'VE are going down 10 the Pacific
Garden Mission won't YOU come
down the mission? ! am sure YOU
will enjoy it, You can hear drunk.
ards tell how they have been saved
and girls tell how they have been
saved from the red light district
Il arose and said 10 the boys:
I'm through am going 20 Jesus
Christ We've come TO the parting
of the ways, and I turned my back
on them Some of them laughed and
some OF them Knocked mes one OF
them gave me- encouragement, 9th.
ers never said word
Twenty eight years ago | turned
and left that little group on the cor.
ner " State and Madison streets and
walked to the little mission and fell
on my knees and staggered out Of
sin and into the arms OF the Savior
Il went over to the west side Of
Chicago, whore | was keeping com.
pany with a girl. now my wife. Nell
married Nell. She was a Presbytcr
ian, so | am a Presbyterian II she
had been a Catholic would have
been n Catholic because was hot