Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-09
DRY LEADERS HIT
OLD PARTIES FOR
LIQUOR ATTITUDE
]. Frank Hanly and DIR. Ira Landrith,
Prohibition Candidates, Speak
In Market Square.
ARR ASKING FOR MILLION VOTES
Predict That I'm Four Years More
Country VIII Be Ready to Dis
pose of Saloon Business.

GIVE the prohibition party a mil
lion votes this fall and the present
congress will be forced to divorce gov
errmental relation TO the liquor traffic
which now exists" said j. Frank
Fanly, former republican governor of
Indiana and now prohibition candidate
for president. in his address last even
ing in Market square at the end of the
first days journey OF the 10000 mile
trip which the cold water campaign
special is to take in covering the coun-
try.
Every four years the people Of tho
United States are called upon to make
an inventory of the economic. indus
trial, financial and moral condition of
the nation he continued. president
Wilson and Charles E. Hughes each
carries with him potential appoint
ments for postmasters, collectors, Uni
ted States district attorneys and other
positions but the prohibition party has
nothing of that kind to offer. I might
as well confess we are as poor as can
be. Frankly, / do not believe that
will be called upon TO administer the
affairs of this nation but l do feel that
l am called upon to take sides in this
great liquor question and TO do what
I can to help the prohibition party in
its aim to destroy the governmental
connection with the saloon business.
Wants Sober America.
There is practically no essential
difference between the attitudes of the
republican and democratic candidates
for president, except that one wears
whiskers and the other does not; that
enc is in and the other wants in. Both
claim that they stand for Americanism.
Justice Hughes says he favors Amer
lea first and efficient Yet he refuses
to oppose the institution which is the
greatest destroyer of our national eff
cheney. The pTohibitionists propose TO
make America efficient by making 1t
sober.
Justice Hughes states he also fav-
ors the protection of motherhood and
childhood and says that this is prob
lem that cannot be trified with because
II affects the future citizenship of this
country. President Wilson in his &C.
ceptance speech declared that he was
glad his party had secured the eman-
cipation of the children of the country
by releasing them from injurious Ia
Dor. Yet both Of these gentlemen
know there can be no real emancipa-
ton of the children of this country
while the liquor traffic holds the war
rant of the nation for their spoiiation
About Preparedness.
Both of the candidates of the old
Parties have had much to say of pre-
Faredness. They talk to you about
preparing for a war that, thank God.
will never come. We propose without
any taxation, to curtail the liquor /
business, in order that this nation will
be ready to meet any emergency which
may come. The important thing should
crisis develop is to have a sane and |
sober citizenship.
Some of you older men remember |
when Lincoln came to you and appealed /
TO you on the slavery question. He told |
yCu that if 1t was right, then it should |
be recognized and approved and if il |
vas wrong, it should be abolished. /