The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-27
DRYs NAY CARRY STATE
Speaker Declares Temperance People
Have Fair Chance to Elect Lesis-
Lature That Will Ratify Amend
ment at the Coming Session.

"Any man who copntenances the
right Of any other man to waste the
food of this country, to waste the fuel
OF the country, squander the railroad
facilities, or to destroy the man power
OF the country in this our time of
greatest need for the conservation of
these things, is unpatriotic, and a
traitor said B. N. Hicks, assistant
state superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League at the Congregational
ist Church Sunday night.
The occasion was union temper
ance meeting rrder the auspices of the
Ant1-Saloon League, in which the con-
gregations of the First Congregational
ist, Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal,
the First Baptist and Grace English
Lutheran churches joined. There were
present besides the speaker, Rev. VIM.
+, Sell, pastor of the First Congregation
alist Church; Rev. Ora W. Taylor, Rev.
|. W. Corey and Rev. H. K Gebhart, all
of whom participated in the service.
After a song service led by the choir
in which the congregation Joined,
scripture reading by Rev. I. w. Corey
and prayer by Rev. Fl. K. Gebhart, the
speaker of the evening, B. n. Hicks de-
livered a forcible address on the patti
| otto and economic sides of the pro-
hibition question. Among other things
the speaker said:
eve are temperance folks and we
are going to preach right along ON the
same old text until the people do what
they ought TO do and put Wisconsin
dry. We have had dreams on the
moral side Of this question for years
and every one is familiar with that
phase of the subject. But the prohibi-
ton question has taken new features
in recent years since this great war
has been thrust upon us. There is now
a patriotic and an economic side to
the question. I am here to discuss
question just as vital to the welfare Of
this country as the gospel for it is part
of the gospel. The laymen have taken
up the work and are assisting the min
listers. can see over the Top. I can
see in the future when there will not
be saloon in the United States to
curse and to damn this country.
"John Barleycorn has forty-eight
lives; cat has but nine. We have
succeeded in killing him and preaching
his funeral in twenty eight states and
we will preach his funeral and write
his epifaph ON the whole forty-eight
before another twelve months rolls
! around. When one compares the diff
ference, compares the condition with
state while it is wet and after it goes
dry, it is beyond comparison. No one
| is able to describe the difference.
"When Oregon went dry in the City
of Portland alone the bank deposits
increased $13,000,0o0, the first year and
the savings deposits increased $5,000,
000 There was an increase in the
number of children in the schools the
! first year of two thousand. Before
this time this number of children had
not had the clothes and books neces-
sary to prepare them to go to school,
because the money their parents earn
ed went into the hands of the saloon
keepers, and the children had been
deprived of the food, clothing, and
books necessary for them to be sent
to school.
"This matter of prohibition has
been discussed in all the aid societies
except the kaiser's aid society. You
become just as much a member of the
kaiser S aid society by being slack in
your duty to your country as you would
by enlisting in his army. Any man
who countenances the right of any
other man to waste the food of this
country, to waste the fuel, to waste
the railroad power or to destroy the
man power of the country, is unpatrio-
tic and traitor.
The brewers waste 100000 bush
els of wheat and the time of thousands
of railroad cars every year. Billie
/ Austin, who is connected with the
brewery interest, made the state
ment at Madison, that 2O,000,OO0
bushels of grain a year were used by
brewers in Wisconsin. Just think
what an enormous amount of grain for
one state alone to waste. This would
make more than ship load Of sixteen
hundred tons every day in the year that
could be sent to our boys abroad.
"Kenosha is having a red letter day
today The saloons, for patriotic rea
sons closed their doors on Sunday.
We have had the same laws on our
statute books for years but we did not
have man in the governor s chair who
would enforce it. We hope to see the
time when these saloonkeepers will be
patriotic seven days in the week. We
had O letter day in Milwaukee