The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25

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ness. The fuel problem may be solvet
in the same way. The fuel admins
tration told the coal men that the,
must produce next year one hundred
million tons more coal. II America
goes dry it will be produced, for the
saving by closing liquor manufacture
ers and the saving. on coal tor the
TRANSPORT of their wares will meet the
government needs.
Transportation Problem.
Last year, when schools and
churches were closed because OF tue!
shortage, the brewers had full coal
bins and ran night and day. The
problem of transportation OF our
troops by land and sea is the greatest
transportation problem any nation
ever faced. One million cars every
year are taken up in the liquor trans
portation and two million tons OF
shipping is used by them. 10 take
over this would solve the problem
Take the money problem. The actiVl-
ties of men produce money. ne
liquor traffic removes from the held
of production activities FIVE hundred
thousand men, who are IN their en-
ploy. In this country there are three
million heavy drinkers, men who are
of little or no value in producing
money. The liquor traffic takes into
its Golfers millions of dollars every
year and throws back onto the state
detectives and criminals. Eliminate
the liquor traffic and you solve the
money problem and, incidentally, the
problem OF crime, insanity and de-
generacy.
The war will be won. in the last
analysis, by strong men contending. DO
you know that 100000 young men
have been rejected in America as
physically unfit, and that this unit
ness was due to the use of liquor!
Social Problem.
Three hundred thousand more have
been rejected because of the social
disease, and my fellow countrymen,
the social problem is a liquor prob
lem. The average mortality in Amer
lea among young men is twice what
it should be. Five ounces of alcohol
would in ten hours kill the strongest
man in this audience. Nothing could
save the life of man who drank that
amount at one time. The process is
slower when a man drinks liquor
gradually, but it is none the less sure;
it slaughters men like cattle.
l am Analysing war scientifically.
I'm not making temperance speech.
When the paragraph abolishing the
of liquor was put into
the food administration bill in con-
gress, the brewers went to the presI-
dent and to congress and threatened
an obstruction policy if that para
graph became law. Many business
concerns have been hurt by the war,
but no other except the liquor men
have had the temerity to threaten
the government. Let US look for a
minute as to who are the brewers.
They are Germans. Many of the
breweries are owned by men living
in Germany, and before the war the
dividends went back to the father
land. They can no longer send the
dividends there and the money is
used to finance the German propa-
ganda in this country. They finance
all the incendiaries which have de-
stroyed 30 much of human life and
property. To stop or to cripple Ger
man propaganda in this country, we
put the liquor traffic out of
business. When the war is over, even
though we win, we shall not have a
democracy unless the liquor traffic is
killed. All the men engaged in this
traffic comprise one-third of one per
cent of the population of the United
States, and yet they paralize the
hand of the law. The president has
now the power any hour of any day
l. ~ If h,,c
the period of the war. Why doesn't
he do it? He will, when all the peo-
pie arise and say it shall be done.
You don't want liquor autocracy
made up of Germans. Then everyone
of you write to your congressman
your two senators and your pres1-
dent and say SO.
Captain Hobson said that it has
been proven by scientific experiment
that a family became extinct in the
fourth generation from a father or a
mother who drinks alcoholic st1rnu-
lants. The perpetuity OF our nation
is doomed unless the liquor business
is killed
When Captain Hobson finished his
speech, booze hadn't a leg to stand on
and he was scientific and sane in hi:
every line OF reasoning.
The evening entertainment wa:
prefaced by the Community band
which gave an enjoyable twenty
minute program. Mrs. R. L. Reic
directed a ladies' chorus which sans
two numbers most delightfully."-, th'
second being an encore. Pear
O'Neil, a Canadian reader who hat
given a most satisfactory program II
the afternoon, read three number
Just before Captain Hobson's lee
ture. Her approximations were ex
cellent and her personality yer,
charming. The afternoon program
included a lecture by Clyde Wilson
McChord, of Lincoln, Nebr., who ha'
| for a subject The Task Supreme.
II was a talk on the boy and cir
problem, and some OF the things h
said hit exactly upon the school an
city problems which we have RICH
here. Some other day when spac
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