South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-26
HAPPENINGS IN AND ABOUT TOWN

not occurred. Napoleon had planned
A similar invasion of England. He
mad the ships ready and the SOL
diers. From the coast OF France
you can see the white chalk clifs
at Dover. so miles away; yet Ma
poleon never was able 10 cross the
channel, nor send over a single
transport Neither has Germany
been able to do so. The British
and American navies have seen to
this. Germany. we will say has sue
ceeded in keeping her foes of her
own soil. But while this is true,
il is also true that the German
armies are hemmed in OF. all sides;
and they will never be able 20 get
out of Europe. And they will be
kept there, hemmed in until feudal-
ism dies walled in with a ring Of
steel No no. This country has
not ever been invaded by Germany.
and the danger is already far past
that she ever will be. The war,
like the plague, is kept on the soil
where il broke out; and Mexico
may buster like a little bantam
down in the southwest, and traitors
may disturb US in the bounds of our
own country. but the raging mon
ster OF invasion has not come and
will not come. God has said: Here
let all thy proud waves pc stayed
Thank God, then. for an uninvaded
county.
Glance back over the years. Our
grandfathers could not get their
harvests reaped without furnishing
whisky 10 all the hands This had
TO go when the agitation against
whisky commenced. Then in all the
cities in the country the saloons in
sisted on being on the public
squares. and the county seat towns
especially were dissraced with grog
shops alongside of groceries and
other stores. and property was oft
en- allowed TO depreciate in value
around court houses located in such
squares. until the moral sense of
the people revolted; and almost uni
versally now If saloons exist, they
have had to move into side streets
and off the public squares. one no
torious except to this in the state
of Indiana is the town of Valpa-
raise, where at the recent session
of our conference, ! found about
every fourth building around the
public square a wide-open saloon
of the most impudent type. But
this is the exception. In the vast
majority of instances the public
squares are decent enough. And we
may be sure that when a town or
city through its chamber of COM
merce advertises the advantages in
that town or city, they do not say
that the saloon is an asset: in fact
they are too polite and wise TO let
the public think that they thinh
saloon is an asset.
And the American people is all
coming TO be Of the same mind. 1t
must not only get off the public
square but off the earth.
And the whole world is coming
TO take the same view of the case.
Russia, England, France and Ger
many are coming rapidly to see that
inefficiency goes with the use of
drink; and that economically they
movement TO abolish the traffic Is
assuming worldwide proportions;
and the next country to line up by
the side OF Russia in total prohiol-
ton will be the nited states. The
December session of congress viii
probably bring it to pass.
so 1 say then, let us thank God
this year because King AlcohoTs
death groans are being heard, and
that John Barleycorn has been Civ
en- up by the doctor. The doctor Is
Uncle sam; and the behavior Of the
patient has been such, and his
breath is no so short that Uncle
Sam neither is hopeful, nor does
he wish. 10 have him. And in this
year of our Lord, 1917 the chisels
are already busy cutting a monu-
ment TO put over the graves of the
king and his brother John. And on
this gravestone there will be carved
these words:
Here lie two sleepers who COM
mitted treason against law and or
der all their lives; whose record is
stained with countless murders;
who have corrupted virtue; under
mined the public morals; corrupted
politics: debauchei legislatures; de-
fed the officers of the law; and
after their long career of crime
have been struck down by an Of
Tended and righteously indignant
people. They now lie here, buried
under this monument as an example
TO all offenders; and we would give
warning through this inscription to
old King Tobacco. that a grave is
being prepared for him; and when
this grave holds him, let it be re-
membered that
All three who lie here died. unwept, IN
hOnOred and unsung,
Thank God. | say, for the burial year
Of Rum.
For n Bible Unfettercd.
The Bible is the true textbook
of democracy. and the poorest text
book of autOcracy. Ii is the sisnif-
icant outstanding fact that demOc-
racy scatters Bibles and autocracy
hide them. AutOcratic spain denied
the Bible to South America. the
Philippines. Mexico, and 10 Spain
herself: and autocratic Russia did
the same thing for her people. Au-