The Washington herald., 1918-01-28

rotten tissue. He says he's healthy.
Smell his breath.
You punch your finger in that
healthy flesh he talks about and
the dent will be there a half hour
afterwards. You look like you don't
believe it. Try it when you go to
bed tonight. Pneumonia has a first
mortgage on a booze-hoister.
Take a fellow with good. healthy
muscles, and you punch them and
they bound out like a rubber band.
The first thing about a crushed
strawberry stomach is a crushed
strawberry nose. Nature lets the
public on the outside know what
he is doing on the inside.
II I could take the stomach
of a moderate drfnker and turn it
wrong side out for you. it would be
all the temperance lecture you
would need.
You know what alcohol does to
the white of an egg? 1t will cook it
in a few minutes. Well, alcohol
does the same thing to the nerves
as to the white of an egg. That's
why some men can't walk. They
stagger because their nerves are
partly paralyzed.
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the body. It takes all the blood in
the body and purifies it and takes
out the poisons and passes them on
to the gall, and from there they go
to the intestines and act. like oil
does on machinery.
When a man drinks the liver be-
comes covered with hob nails and
then refuses to do the work and the
poisons stay in the blood. Then the
victim begins to turn yellow. He
has the jaundice. The kidneys take
what is left and purify that. The
booze that a man drinks turns them
hard.
Hat's what booze is doing for
you. Isn't it time you went red hot
after the enemy?
I'm trying to help you. I'm try
ing to put a carpet on your floor,
pull the pillows out of the window,
give you and your children and wife
good clothes.
I'm trying to get you to save your
money instead of buying a machine
for the saloonkeeper while you have
to hot-foot it.
By the grace of God I have
strength enough to pass the open
saloon. but some of you can't, so I
owe II to you to help you.
Declares Unending War on Saloon
Business.
I've stood for more sneers and
SCOTS and insults and had my life
threatened from one end of the land
to the other by this God-forsaken
gang of thugs and cutthroats be-
cause I have come out uncompro-
misingly against them. I've taken
more dirty, vile insults from this
low-down bunch than from any one
on earth, but there is no one that
will reach down lower or reach up
higher or wider to help out Of the
pits Of drunkenness than
The open saloon IL the hotbed Of
anarchy. II Is the incubator OF pow
erty and crime and vice. 1t In the
spawning place of degeneraey.
don't know whether you ever
had any one come to old Washing
ton to preach to these puss-gutted
Holsters, but by the eternal God I
will. when we get the preachers to
do this and quit talking about new
Jerusalem, get the Presbyterian to
preach about this Instead of pre-
ferment, when a lot Of them haven't
anything to prefer, and the Baptists
quit yelling awater, water, WATER"
and 1.-TWO thirds of their bunch going
where they can't get n drop, we'lI
clean up this saloon-fiIed, brewery
controlled community for Christ.
Pm going to skin 'sm.
You say you est prohibit men
from drinking. Why IL Jesus Christ
was here today some Of you would
keep on in sin iust the same
Sup the law can be enforced