The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-26
GUSHING OF BOOZE
DEFEAT THE KAISER
John Barleycorn Forcefuny
Attacked By Speaker
PUNCHES BY S. M. DICK
Blue Earth County Is the Battle.
Ground For Fight Against
Liquor
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
That the dry forces of the United
States by next winter will have
enough states in line to ratify the
federal constitutional amendment
prohibiting the manufacture and sale
of liquor in the United States, was
the belief expressed by Rev. S. M
Dick. president of the Minnesota Anti
Saloon league and pastor of the First
Methodist Episcopal church of Min
neapolis, in an address at the union
service held at the Presbyterian church
last evening.
Rev. Dick called on his hearers to
go to work vigorously for the triumph
of the drys and thus hasten the VIC
tory over autocracy in the great war.
He declared that John Barleycorn
was doing more to destroy the strength
of the allies than the kaiser
Mrs. Wilbur Taylor played the organ
prelude. The choir, which rendered
selections from time to time, consisted
of Miss Mansfield, Miss Williams, T.
F. Hughes and Glenn Shoemaker. Rev.
A. B. Bell gave the invocation. Rev.
G. A. Cahoon led the psalter reading.
DR.. Dick led the opening prayer, i'm
ploring divine help to the churches in
shifting the liquor traffic, and praying
for the day when this world should be
a divine world, world in which
righteousness, sobriety and Christian
ity should prevail
Rev. G.. A. Cahoon announced that
DR.. ]. F. Stout, superintendent of the
Mankato Methodist district, would
speak at the Centenary church this
evening on 'Christ's World Program"
ALI people were invited. The meeting
is to open at 7:45 p. m.
Rev. T. r. Paden spoke of the vari
Gus meetings that the churches had
had in the morning under the auspices
of the Minnesota Anti Saloon league
He said he felt sure that the people
of Mankato were in dead earnest now
on the matter of closing up the saloons
and closing them up forever. He spoke
of the notorious fact that Mankato was
supplying liquor to people from all
over Southern Minnesota as well as
people from Iowa. One of the hardest
fights in the state would be waged
right here in Blue Earth county, as it
was furnishing liquor to so large a
territory. He declared that there were
no grounds for the existence of the sa-
loon, it was on its last legs. The
churches had done a great work al
ready against the saloons under the
leadership of the Anti-Saloon league.
"By putting John Barleycorn out of
business" said Rev. Paden, 1--WE shall
with the same blow put the kaiser out
of business"
Sought Financial Support.
Cards were now passed around, for
pledges of financial support to the
Anti-Saloon league. Rev. Paden an
nounced that the donation that had
been received in the morning had been
very cheering indeed. Full reports
were not at hand, but it was known
that the Presbyterian church had con-
tributed $18S. the Centenary Metho-
dist S186, the Welsh Calvinistic
church $66. and the Baptist $50.
Down King Alcohol and Defeat
the KAISER" was the topic of Rev.
Dick, the speaker Of the evening. He
opened by reading the scripture pas
sage in the twentieth chapter of Isaiah,
which prophesied that the Lord would
chastise Israel at the hands of the
Asyrians. He took the view that just
as the Lord was using the Assyrian
army to chastise the Isrealites and
turn them from their sins, so likewise
the Lord was using the German army
to chastise England, France and
America, and make them leave off
their vices. Just as the Lord smote
the Assyrian army, so likewise the
Lord would smite the German army.
America and the nations allied with
her should become dry nations, and
that fact alone would strike the kaiser
a mighty blow In both cases did the
Lord SHAVE with a razor" as the
scripture words are.
Rev. Dick said this country was con-
tending with two mighty powers, au-
tocracy and intemperance. The great
enemies were John Barleycorn, and
Kaiser Wilhelm.
He spoke of the fact that in ITS
there were very few republics on the
earth. America had one and there
were a few little ones in Europe.
There were only about five million
people living under republican govern
ment and the real republican govern
ment was that of America. This re-
public became the seed corn of re-
publics the world over. The result
was that today there were 1850 ,OOO,-
600 people living under such forms
of government. A handful of people
in. central Europe sought to fasten the
yoke of homage on the necks OF these
1880 100000.
Tear Down House of HohenzolIern.
He declared that for America there
were but two possible outcomes of
this war; One was that the Hohenzol-
Tern house of Germany should be-
shorn of it's power and the other was
that the Hohenzollern house would
appoint the next occupant of the white
house at Washington. "Do you think
the people of the United States will
ever tolerate the Hohenzollerns in the
white house at Washington" he
asked. mot as long as there is man
to WELD sword"
The speaker said Germany was the
most pagan nation on the face of the
earth. 1t was twenty-five years ago
that Germany banished the Christian
spirit. 1t was done in the German lit
erature and in the German pulpits
The supernatural was removed from
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