The Owosso times., 1916-01-21
ANrI-SALOON FORCES RALLY
Well Attended Meetings on Sunday
Throughout county-Swong for
State Wide Prohibition.

The anti-saloon forces of the state
had speakers in most of the pulpits
about the county on Sunday and the
cause OF temperance and especially
state. wide prohibition was earnestly
ADVOCATED and endorsed in an emphatic
manner by the subscriptions made in
response to an appeal for funds to
carry on the fight against the liquor
traffic. The possible pending local
option election in the county and the
second victory scored by the dry forces
at the supervisors session last week
made added interest in the discussion
and awoke renewed interest for the
cause.
DR.. T. Alex Cairns of New Jersey at
the afternoon meeting at the Congrega.
tional church spoke in part as follows:
DR.. Cairns cited the change that has
come about in the past ten years, in
the strength of the saloon, declaring
that more progress had been made in
the last deca ie toward eliminating the
liquor traffic than in all the rest of the
time since the fight against it was
started He declared that civic pro.
gress and the saloon are not in har-
mony and that the grand march of
civilization would never be played on
the pianola Of the saloon" The rule of
the people, he said, is undeniabl and
the people no longer want the saloon.
1t is inevitable, therefore, he declared,
that this institution be blotted out.
ut Is the democracy that has been
dumping the brewers suds into the
sewers for twenty years." declared the
speaker.
THE childhood of this country has
cried out for years for justice, declared
Mr.. Cairns. "The motherhood of our
country is hungry for justice that has
been denied them both because of the
saloon. And now justice is demanding
that the saloon let the people 60 from
it's throtling grasp. 1t is the mothers
and the children who suffer from the
saloon. The father drinks and the chill.
dren have to wear rags. The father
drinks and the children suffer from NAL.
nutrition. or in plain words, starve
The father drinks, contracts disease In
the houses Of shame while in adrun ken
condition. and his children are born
deformed S7y afflicted The father
drinks and his, wife lakes tnsSuadhl1fS
and gets only curses and abuse for her
efforts from her sot Of husband"
DIR. Cairns told of the awful misery
of the lower strata in New York City,
with its thousands of homeless, its one
murder every day of the year, it's hun.
dreds of arrests daily, its hundreds of
people starving its thousands of chill.
dren going to school on half time, and
hundreds living in cellars. Then he
declared that Gotham has $4,000 sa-
looms, or one saloon for every thirty
families. us it any wonder that New
York has such suffering, such awful
conditionsH' asked the speaker.
Then there Is the white slave, the
girl who is trsmping the streets, selling
her body and soul for loaf of bread, u
said DR.. Cairns. There are thousands
of just sdch girls in New York City
And the saloon is the cause of most oi
it. One glass of beer will cause girls to
throw discretion to the winds, to dror
he bars of III cd esty and start on the
downward path from which none re
turn. One glass of beer may let loose
the flood of lust that damns q girl for
ever.
"Then take the dens of vice, the
houses of shame. Take liquor away
from them and they disappear, for the
scarlet woman, minus her liquor, Is
like Hell's Inferno, robbed of its fire.
DR.. Cairns ridiculed the claim of tn,
saloon keeper that he pays license fol
running saloon. That's lie.
shouted DR. Cairns. "The saloonkeepel
does not pay the license, 1t is the pso
pie who pay 1t. Take Ohio for in
J stance. rhe state spends $ll0 900. OO'
} every year for liquor, and yet the liquo
dealer says he pays the license.
But supposing he did pay the Ii
cense. Supposing he paid ten times a
high license as he does now. Jus
one boy or girl would be rated highe
in the Dunn and Bradstreet of Heaven
than all of the money that all the ga
} loon keepers in the world could pay il
licenses. And vet thousands of on
, boys are being sent to He'll by the sa
, loon, and we are standing for it, be
cause the saloons pay license"
DR.. Cairns took up the high cost o
living and suggested that possibly tn
fact that this country spends two bill
lion dollars annually for liquor Nigh
: have something to do with 1t. He de
clared that every ten years Uncle Sam
drink bill is equal to the value of hi
entire holdings. "You have heard of
> farmer drinking up his farm said th
l speaker. "Well, Uncle Sam is drink
ing mn his farm every ten wears"