The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-10-13
GREAT ADDRESS
FOR A DRY J.. S.
DR.. Swadener Talks to Splendid Gre
NADIA Audience On Subject of Ma
tion-Widc Prohibition. Docs
Not Follow Usual Lines Dis
cussed BY Temperance
Speakers.

On Wednesday, evening * the
Methodist church in Grenada DR..
Madison Swadener, of Ohio. address
ed quite a large and representative
runber of Grenada citizens on The
subject Of nationwide prohibition.
The speaker was introduced b.
Senator J. 4. Blount, who took oo-
casion to refer to some current moves
by the whiskey interests IL this
state. Mr.. Blount was forceful and
fortunate in his remarks and was
highly complimented by the distin-
guished speaker of the evening.
DR.. Swadencr's address was not
along the lines usually followed by
temperance speakers but he followed
q new path and held the interested
and absolute attention Of his au-
dience for more than an hour.
There were no weak places in his ad-
dress. He started out on Il good
foundation and. while he went high
er and higher, he never failed to
maintain a harmonious and absolute
connection Of the parts Of his dis
course. He said the time for talking
temperance. the time for crystalliz-
ing sentiment, was past; hat the
work of the churches and the Cod
fearing citizenship of the country to
do was to use the sentiment God had
already helped them crystalize. He
said that the preacher that stayed in
his pulpit and preached the gospel cf
peace would do very little towards
helping God to secure that peace
lie maintained that God intended the
ministry to be militant in the sense
OF leading moral movements against
vices and immoralities and that un.
less the ministers did take the lead
such movements. in nine cases out OF
ten. would not move. He maintain
ed that the whiskey interests is thu
worst Of the DEVILS institutions an,
that when the church has placed tn,
white banner of prohibition unde.
the folds of the flag of this grea
country, it will have wrought one o
the greatest works it ever wrought
He said such a victory was possible
within ) years if all the churcho
would lust get all their membership
into the fight. He said nationwide
prohibition now had a majority i
the lower house of Congress and tina
the Anti-Saloon League had such
perfect organization that it had III
Whiskey record of every ~nati0ni
character in the United States. an
that it had kept the whiskev organ.
cations from landing Il man on tn
u. S. Supreme Court bench. II
said the whiskey people were fghtin
with desperation. with their back {
the wall, but as usual, not in III
open. He said you could not pu
the whiskey combine into IA dayligh
fight and that whenever you got tn
light in on them at any place the
moved.
The speaker stated that there Wer
now 10 states in the Union that ha
statewide prohibition and that tn
states of California. Montana. Idaho
South Dakota. Nebraska and Mich
gan vote on it in November. Dl
Swadener said that even now 80 pc
cent of the tcrg'itory of the Unite
States had run out the saloons viii
out statewide prohibition. He sai
that had the Governor not waite
until after the adjournment of tn
Legislature to veto the law that Utah
too, would have prohibition.
The address was not only highl
interesting but highly instructiv
and certainly inspiring. No rcall
thinking person "a sit and listen
DR.. Swadener without getting AN VI
lift and feeling an inspiration an
getting courage to DISCHARGE bette
his duties as a citizen in his commur
ity.