The weekly soliphone., 1916-10-13

Ben tbo,ph still in a good humor and smiling with al Isickly smile lay helpless and bleeding. There was mol
 joy juice in his reonder The high notes of praise for IOd Man Peepul given uterance in his original address were subdued they calm and almost meaningless With hundred fatal wounds in it's scandalized body Act Mo- was in condition to face the audience When lBen's time for rejoinder It looked though Ia bridge might have fallen upon it, Ii It had sud- |denlv encountered the Kasers fleet off HehgoIand. Neither is this putting the description too strong Ben Griffin did his best to present the liquor bill Ill an at Ihactive winter gown. He had powder it's face and ear muffs to give protection against sudden declme lin temperature It was all dolled up fit to kill and as pictured by Mr. Griffin looked for all the world like al vaudeville star. Ben himself took dance with the lady and pronounced her peach. She certainly dld haYeI if should believe the words of al devoted father Ben should be remembered, is the actual parent of Act Mo- g. He brought the ntO Ithe world of his own free will taught her to sing the siren songs and plead for the emancipation of the op pressed He put words into her mouth that sound aur ing to those who do hunger and thirst after botted righteousness and he gave to her figure ot seductive proportions Ben pranced out the stage with h1s bel loved child and told the folks she faWess as an angel and as virtuous as num- He told how he hadI been talked about by the refoImers for admitting ms relations to Miss Act No. F. how he had been lied on by the newspapers and hissed at by the preachers lie del tailed his experiences with former legislatures told m minute form how organized religion had attempted toI down him at time when he alone in the world with no Daughter of Liberty to warm his quVerng lips, at al time when bitter words of denunciaton were being dl- rected against his halloWed head by men who had mol other mission in life except to fill puplts on Sunday preach the brotherhood of man and administer to snslc
 sous He told how this mighty organization of the men of God had ptted themselves against him during hsI lonely existence as legislator and how, to even upI the issue he finally concluded to break the bonds oI sol
 cal proprety and father the Daughter of Liberty Now, behold, she is living beauty, full-fledged Maden of Midas with an inheritance of thousands from the Nal Itional Louor Dealers Association and father Who stands ready to fight bleed and die in order that an u kind world may never be allowed to bear false WtncSS aganst her or even intimate that she IS anything but V
 en So Ben and his faVOrlte daughter Watzed to the tune of barleycOrn brew and fOXuOtted as Simpson, lsghed for chance to loose his primed batteries Lett lit be understood in all sincerity that Ben did his danedes
 Ito prove that this budding beauty whom he proposes o lchrsen in November is destined to lead decent life
 He is not afraid to trust her out Of his sight nor to mar
 rv her to moderate thinker. He knows her sterlngI worth and he feels that though the rlOtous seks of the ewd and the cry of tortured souls who are light inq snakes in a gded saloon may fill the atmOsphere with m,urlness thick enough to be sliced with butcher knife this Daughter of the Peoples Liberty will never go astray When others drunk upon the stuff Ben pro-
 hoses to supply them with Liberty will sit enthroned and
 will smile sWeety upon the scenes that are beng enact
 ed When brains have been befuddled with aIcohoIlc
 drinks and when as result, brother flies at brothers
 throat Iibertv Ben's lovely daughter will breathe al
 silent prayer of thankfulness to God high and bless
 he day her useful father gave to mankind the privilege
 of exercising unrestraned personal action. When the
 bawdv houses in larger cities again baptized with
 ouor when the brothe thrives upon the wreck oI man.
 hood when that loathsome disease incident alone to
 those who frequent these breeding places of hell that Ben
 Would restore saps the strength of young men who are eNtitled to states protection-Sweet Liberty will
 sne and chant song of thanluness that farsighted
 fahNr wise enough in the good year nineteen sixteen to saAer the letters which bound bertyovng son to tba anron strings of his mother And when in the end,
 he vely flames of hell break forth when the lid from
 that boomless pit is lifted and Bens own gang IS un- chainedA Aagain will Sweet Liberty heave sigh of con-