The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-10-11
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ting in approximately $4,000 to give
young man a high school educa-
ton. A good investment. But while
you are doing that you are allowing
the German submarine to torpedo
that young man-you are allowing
the bootlegger to carry on his bust
ness here in Leavenworth and destroy
your work. Standing by-a Stacker
and allowing il to be done. Ny
proposition is this: If the town coun-
Gil would, they could close them up
and in "a hours make this town as
dry as a Methodist prayer meeting.
But they want to incur the fIvor and
enjoy the pleasure of the whiskey
peddler either in business or good
will, or they like the stuff. | don't
care which horn they take hold of
but they can't get out of taking hold
of one. Either they want the pleas
ure of the whiskey peddler or they
like the damnable stuff themselves.
7 a. nositive the business could be
stopped in "a hours if we went after
it.
"Another count is this: A boot
logger is a fifty-fifty pro-German
and that slacker-the person who
continues to stand by and watch the
bootlegger carry on his business, is
fiftv-fifty bootlegger. | know it
is not pleasant to be called pro-Ger-
man, but I submit to you that the
tootlegger is consuming foodstuffs in
- business which | know and you
49," "ro of great need in the world,
undermining our resources and our
allies. Young men are drinking the
them, weakens them so that when
they come up against the Hun they
are unfit. The Hun is putting a
knife into that young man and do
ing it to tear down our army.
"When the people of Washington
said we want saloons, we want to go
into the liquor business, I was sub
missive. I did not approve, but they
made it a legal business and re-
spected the man who was in the Ii
quor business at that time. l re-
Who conducted the
business at that time according to
law. I take off my hat to the man
who was a saloon man but when we
decided to go out of the saloon bust
ness, he turned the key to his saloon
an6 went into some other kind of
business We have those kind of
men and I respect them. But rs to
- whiskev peddler, I take off my
'r'-o~ to hirl. The whiskey peddler
IS going to have a hard time TO fight
to the last ditch. The fight is on and
on to the finish. We are not going
to stand by and see our young men
dragged down to hell by this thing.
"I did not know when I built this
sermon, that I was running parallel
to another force in this town, brit my
heart beat with joy when man came
to me Saturday morning and out
lined the program. I thank God for
it.
"I appoint you, yea, I charge you
that you be responsible for seeing
that everyone of your neighbors be
registered to vote and see that they
do votei
"These then are the two charges
that bring against the men of Lea
venworth: That they are slackers
concerning religious work. You can't
tell me anything else. Again, the
second count is that they are quiet,
peaceful concerning the liquor selling
in Leavenworth. I haven't bought
any liquor here but have seen the
effects of it. Going along the street.
I ave seen men under the effect of
it. l know what is gong on and l
serve notice on them right now. If
they are going to work for the devil,
they've got the devil to pay. If they
are going to join the devils army
and work for him, say, they've got
to pay the bill. Buff the Lord be
God, follow him, if Bael be God, fol-
low Him, if the God of America be
God, follow him, if the God of the
Hun be God, follow Himl The line
is drawn and men are going to take
their stand. viii find out Monday
how men stand in this town. Some
will smile at me, trying to hide their
thoughts, say, Good morning, Mr..
Morton!" -but the man who does not
smile at me I'll have branded.