Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-10-04
PASTORS MAKE STRONG
APPEAL FOR PROHIBITION

Sunday evening the churches of
the city united their congregations
in a union meeting at the Presby-
terian church, at which time Rev.
Creenlee and Rev. Giddens spoke
their farewell to Audubon people.
Their last talks were of the militaris-
tic type and they fired hot-shot after
hot-shot at the liquor interests.
The reverend gentlemen, with the
assistance of Rev. Lang of the Evan
gelical church made a patriotic ap-
peal TO the public to assist in the
defeat of the liquor interests. The
attact on John Barleycorn" was be-
gun several years ago. 1t is of just
recent years that the tide of battle
has been going against him. 1t was
the purpose of these three men to en-
list voters in the ranks of prohibition.
to redouble the onslaught and
strengthen the defense so that the
present trenches of prohibition should
not be recaptured on Oct. Is.
The opening charge was made by
Rev. Giddens, whose preliminary was
similar to that of the present world
war. The opening of bate he char
acterized by the firing of shrapnel,
lOllo w GU w INC liShI al tllitls
finally capturing the enemy by heavy
charges fired from the big centimeter
guns.
The shrapnel of Rev. Giddens was
of the explosive kind. His opening
charge consisted in making an explain
alton of the difference between
statutory and constitutional prohibit
ton. Statutory prohibition may
come to an end by the action of one
state legislature. Constitutional pro-
hibition cannot be ousted without
the consent of the people. The fight
for prohibition he likened to the
world war The U. S. is in war be-
cause of the principle involved-the
principle of democracy, or whether
1.-The government of the people, by
the people and for the people" should
continue to exist or be overthrow.
The people of Iowa are involved in
battle over the liquor interests be
cause of the principle nvolved-shall
the saloons be returned to Iowa?
The fight started Sunday night is
to continue until Oct: 18th, and they
are to make prohibition constitutional
so as to eliminate the danger of few
men being able to bring the saloons
back into Iowa. He admonished all
men to get into line to smash the l.
quor interests and to make the goal
for touch down by downing the
influences of the liquor interests.
The light artillery charge was mar
shalled by Rev. Lang. He sighted
the visions of the people to the train
ing camps where the soldiers were
examined for the U. S army. He
stated that the largest percent of men
successfully passing examinations of
any state were from Kansas where
81 percent of her men succeeded.
The percent of men passing in other
states is much smaller in comparison.
The reason for these conditions, he
said was caused by intemperance.
sleepless nights and bad women. The
greater percent of these failures can
be rectified by the elimination of
booze from the U. S.
Following Rev. Lang came the
charge of the big centimeter guns
fired by Rev. Greenlee. His words
were few but strong. and the force
with which they were delivered was of
such intensity that the entire audi
ence felt his appeal with telling eff
feet. He stated that his chief regret
in leaving the community at this time
was that he was not able to take an
active part in the fight for prohibition
Becaue of i'll health, he was forced
to resign his pastorate and go to
California. The absence of his influ-
ence. coupled with that of Rev. Gid
dens, who goes to Winterset, will be
greatly felt in Audubon county.