Middletown transcript., 1918-07-20
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Dr.. Tanning Severely Indict. The
Liquor Traffic

Dr.. Tanning Severely lndicts Th'
Liquor Traffic
SPEAKS IN THE N. E. CHURCH
Last Sunday morning, DR.. Michae
j. Tanning, since Cough, the mos
famous temperance orator in America,
addressed good audience in the M. f.
Church on that great subject.
This noble Apostle of Temperance is
still, after IS years of hard fighting,
doing yeoman service to help put down
the worlds greatest evil-the making
and sale of intoxicants.
More than once in the course OF hi@
long career has he nearly sealed his faith
with his blood. Persecution and martyr
dom have ever been the rewards of the
pioneers in moral reforms; SO this heroic
temperance veteran in his bold and
aggressive war against the once omni-
potent Liquor Interests has been made
to suffer for his course.
Just as the slavers of a little over a
half century ago insulted, mobbed and
murdered the anti-slavery advocates
Of those days, the " endell Phillips and
Lovejoys, so the rumsellers assaulted
and tried to murder Mr., Tanning and
his family for making war upon their
later and worse slavery, For those
older slavers who bought and sold hu-
man chattels, though they put chains
upon the limbs Of their victims, left
their souls unfettered; but the Rum
sellers not only rob their slaves of
property. health and life itself. but
they also put chains upon their very
souls, consigning them in everlasting
bondage to the devil, for upon the
authority of Holy Writ, "No drunkard
shall inherit the Kingdom of God"
In 1895 while residing at Jackson,
Mich, Mr.. Tanning warned the 45
rumsellers there not to violate the state
law forbidding the sale of liquor on the
4th of July. With characteristic con-
tempt of the law, they all did violate
it, and Mr.. Tanning had them ali ar
rested and fined. That night his home
was set on fire, and in saving his tour
children from the flames his bare feet
we're SO severely burned as to cripple
him for life. So. too, at Hampton, Va,
another man was mistakenly shot for
him.
His arraignment of the whole vile
business of the saloon was sca.hing, un-
answerable 1T is the duty of every
good citizen to make war upon inte'n-
perance, for it stands in the way of
bringing the world to Christ, and him
ie;s every good thing men would do.
annually $4,000. 900 spent to promote
iatemperance. to $l.000,000 on Chris
tian doctrine" He spoke Of certain
ship carrying missionaries to the heather
with SO casks of New England rum on
-"Salvation in the cabin, dam
nation in the hold, and Old Glory flying
in legal protection over BOTH"
He tcld how 1000 indignant Christian
women smoked out the cowardly busi
ness men of Elkhart, Ind, who refused
!. sign Iigpor remonstrapce, by
pledging themselves not to buy 81
worth of 6 ,ods from the trimmers.
They pretty soon changed their minds
The speaker said ''Ihe greatest de-
mand of the hour is to bring this awful
war to an end the soonest possible.
The Liquor Traffic is the greatest OBJ
s.asls. We are not meeting the ex-
pectaticns Of our Allies fully because
this Liquor Traffic has not been stopped.
Lloyd George, EpgIand's Premier, says
England has three enemies. Germany,
Austria and Drink, and the greatest is
lirii;ak -
:..1IrInk is destroying N1tussh HcWey
especially in our Industrial csnters.
fhe Government had to form dry
mes about the camps to protect the
soldiers from the liquor vampires, for
. ssldier cannot he kept At in the neigh
borhood Of saloon. Drink stands in
the way of all development Of robust
manhood. Out of $500 young men call
ed at Los Angeles in the first draft,
three out of four were turned down be-
cause Of drink! -
DR.. Tanning then gave some start
HE statistics showing how even mod
crate drinking ia1gsly reduced the men
fall and physical efficiency Of the work
er, among others, reports Of life insur-
apce actqaries covering 100000 Lies.
chewing the loss averaged for moderate
drinkers from four to SIX years OF life.
as compared with abstainers Pres.
Tuber says drink lessons mental eff
cheney Is per cent.
Read what these superintendent Of
thousands of workers say: B. c. Royal
of the Victor Co., employing 10000
men, "Drink is the workingman's worst
enemy --robs him in his physical equip
ment, which is his most vital asset"
stephen E. French, of the Atho'
Machine Co., 1.-The use of intoxicants
by employees does more to retard the
anljycry cf machinery and tools which
i'i,' MAN s. much u the Govefaa.sis row.
thap the lack Of freight-ears. coal
steel or any other material needed in
manufacturing.
The Superintendent of the Akron
Wire Works: "We pay off on Friday,
and are always short On Saturday: Gins