The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-26
SUNDAY BATTERS
BOOZE IN TALK
TO STURGIS FOLK
,Coatinusd frsm i'ase oA.)

a few newspaper editors outright.
and II they can't DO that they Try
tu Subsidizo them with advertising
contracts. tell you that every
dirty sinking lie that has been told
about me has wriggled It's foul car
cass from a brewery"
After producing a mass OF stats
tice 20 prove that the saloon is
heavy drag on the nations eco
n0mie life. denouneing the liquor
gang. and plying the citizen who
has been deluded into believing the
personal liberty abb the athletic
evangelist brought his sermon 20
dramatic ending an ending that
first brought tense moment when
fear was written over the faces OF
men and women alike. and then a
storm OF terv!d applause
Il 60 90 mill. said sunday
say 10 the owner. What DO you
make?' He says, Flour | say
What "a your raw materialr He
SAYS Wheat. ask him about his
finished product He shows me the
-four from which Is made the stan
~ life There are mills and mills
and then there h ne SIN mill
Sundays voice rose almost 20 the
point Of scream
What r. the raw material 'ct ~"
.sia- mi!, 90 ha cried 40 ~ stretched
hls arms upward. and threw back
HE head
Twelve lads whose hronEed faces
and sturdy bodies showed they had
spent their years in the pure air OF
the rural districts bounded 20 the
~attorm and stood behind the evan
Nere's the raw product 81 the gin
mill said the evangelist. Here's
what ne gin mill takes. and when u
turns them on, as its finished pro
duct thaNproduct consists OF lot
~ DRUNKEN 5ots. thieves. thugs
outcasts 81 Mood Almighty's earth
Every drunkArd was az one time a
sober boy. likS the lads who stand
with me today why. I vouldn
and YOU wouldn't hurt. not to say
wreck the lives \of these boys for all
tho distllleries Ind all The saloons
on earth
How are you'll going 20 protect
-rhzEa v7rIrEvtErst How are you .o-
ing 20 give themI The opportunity 60
grow 20 a sober land clean manhood
without having b combat and escape
the clutches o. the booze ring
tell YOU there's lone way--when this
seventh day of November comes
vote dry
Sunday. In | bis more torcerul
phra seology repeated what has been
said BY otherI prohibition workers.
that y Is thA awakening Of the
vorklrEinan VI ich Is spelling detes'
FOR the liquor INTERESTS turnout the
country
The saloon Aomes about as near
being n rat hole\into which a work
irrmau can pour Mis- wages as any
place on earth" said. But !
TF1r YOU rrle7 vorEtrAFfrr-n T. set;!sS-
wise. lie knows THIS pack OF bull
uecked thugs viii give him nothing
In return for his motey but misery.
,and privatinn for him self and his lit
Nc ones The man thO used 20 be
the friend ~ ne sJoon is now its
greatest enemy.
The whole aFht between the
LIQUOR interests and those who seek
~ ovts--rl-ata fbaA vas described
when suodav uulldd A dollar from
I,fs rc~,-a,
"TAa,'s one aide of e." he said
...rpa. --oreaen.s zhiAkv and its pro
o.. y rer-ssen-s ny money gang
that gets rich out on booze. and
that means the newspapeN that plays
IN with The booze gang haven Z
go' any respect 'or ihet Siha OF
IA. -, :, 49,, 80
,..to.E.- g., 49,. nv rs,ne o- not
wv ttark God FOR those kind Of
eremies.
Liquor. nv friends. n worse than
war. worse Than pestilence. and
worse Than famine
II q ohutcH lsil as''l, -. ltiu'' +,
-. 49,. !" - -. - r.,oons so- a
r-ioet ~ n~eochsr who supported
tho whisky gang
"l wasn't asked by the committee
in charge Of The celebration 20 speak
/ on booze y "oHldn nave maze
any oiH"Fehoe Wne,ner my dsH'u
ne ne % uo.' G a. wIob,ra 1"' CO 90 t 10
sro-n o,ornai and nncomnromizir z
foe ~ the llguor trafFc. and I'm 20.
/ ing 20 1.-Two long enough 20 preach the
funeral sermon FOR whisky "
The evangelist rldlculed the Cries
. oi the vets mat proniDition would
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