Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-03-16
TWO DRY MEETINGS HELD
LOCAL SPEAKERS ON WEDNES-
DAY EVENING DoNAHUE
LAST EVENING

dred people congregated at the Victor
theatre Wednesday evening, expecting
| to hear FIR. Donahue of Minneapolis
speak on the liquor traffic for the drys.
Fr. Donahue, who was at Sauk Centre
Tuesday and Wednesday, missed con-
nectioin at Wadena, to which place
he had to 60 to get mere because of
the L. F. & D. branch being blockaded.
and he did not get here for the meet
ing, and the audience was much dis
appointed, but they were assured that
if there was a possibility of getting
him here any time before the city cleo
ton next Tuesday this would be done.
F'r. Donahue arrived in the city yes
terday afternoon, ana spoke before an
audience at the Victor last evenings
but as it was after the time of going
to press we are unable to give any
part of his address.
While the people who had gathered
at the theatre did not get the oppor-
! tunity to hear FIR. Donahue, three local
pastors, Rev. Philip Gregory, Rev. E.
B. Service and Rev. T. B. Kennard,
who were in the audience, volunteered
to speak on the question and each de-
voted about half hour to the discus
sion, although they were not prepared
to give talks on it. F. A. Nelson pre-
sided over the meeting.
Rev. Gregory was called upon first.
He said that the reason the brewer is
| in the liquor business, the saloonkeeper
| in the liquor business and the bartend-
er behind the bar dispensing the
booze, is, not because they like it, but
because of the money there is in it.
They say that if you vote town dry
it is taking their bread and butter
| away from them. Mr.. Gregory said
| that while the saloons exist in q town
| the reverse is true. The bread and but
ter is being taken away from the chill
dren to give the saloon money and in
homes in Little Falls the mere crust is
even being taken from the children in
some homes and given to the saloons.
| A man who will vote for the retention
of the saloons does SO only to hold his
taxes down.
! Mr.. Gregory stated that the saloon
] man is ashamed Of what he sells, and
therefore he has no legitimate right to
sell it. AS matteA of comparison he
said that the farmer is not ashamed of
his products-he brings them down to
the county fair and exhibits them. So
with the mother; she brings her sewing
and her baking to the county fair to
be exhibited and is not ashamed of it.
But did you ever see the product Of a
| saloon at a county fair, or displayed
anywhere in a glass casee Is the pro-
duet of the saloon, the red nosed topper,
ever taken to the county fair and ex-
hibited by the saloon menq In closing
Mr.. Gregory said, - Men, when you go
to the ballot box on March 20, remem-
ber first that You be a man.
Rev. Service, who was the next to
speak, termed the licensed saloon bus
mess one of the greatest humbugs In
this country. The horrors of the Ii"
liquor traffic, he said, are too big to be
painted. AS an instance intended to
refute the argument that the Danish
ing Of the saloons will cause the loss
Of the farmer trade, Mr., Service cited
the case Of the town Of Princeton: The
farmers in the vicinity Of that town
got together two years ago and drew
up petition, 900 signing it, and they
said to the citizens Of Princeton that,
unless Princeton voted out the saloons
thew would refuse to trade there and
they would not allow their boys to 60
there. He said Princeton realized what
this meant and they voted dry.
| Rev. Service said that some people
claim that one is happy when under
the influence of liquor. He asked if
they call it happiness when a man
comes home in drunken stupor and
breaks up the furniture, abuses his
wife and children and so on. Mr..
Service said he considered this the
very depths of debauchery; not chris
tianity but extreme heathenism. He de-
nounced the social custom as the most
damnable part Of the liquor traffic to-
day, the custom of treating. This, he
said, makes drrnkards Of men who
never had a thought or desire to be-
come such.
Rev. Kennard, the last speaker, said
that there is nothing blighting this
beautiful land more than the liquor
traffic. He said that it seems strange
that we can have anything to do with
it when we know that it brings cor.
ruption, poverty, disease, crime, and
everything that is bad. He said that
in proportion to it's size, Little Falls
has more drunks on the streets than
the CITY of Minneapolis. He compar-
ed the saloon to the loko-weed, telling
about the farmer, who, IN showing a
friend over his farm, discovered a
poisonous loko-weed in the field. just
before finding this weed he had told
his friend that he did not intend to
vote to put out the saloon in his town,
as it was the only saloon there and it
did not bother him as he did not pat
ronize it and when his boys grow up
they would not go there. However,
when he found this poisonous weed he
was jubilant, saying that he had a
number of head Of blooded stock which
he might have lost had he not found
that weed. His friend promptly re-
marked that apparently his children
were not blooded children and that he
did not need to look out for them. Rev.
Kennard said that there are men who
think more Of their dogs and hogs
than they do of their children.
JEFFERSON TOURISTS TO PASS
THROUGH HERE