The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-04-10
Ex-Governor Willis and r.
p. Hutton Attack Double
Menace At Law and
Order Banquet.
SPEECHES ARE ELOQUENT
Orators Contend That Prohibition Will
DO More Than Anything Else TO IIn-
prove Economic Conditions and
Insure Prosperity.

Pleading for the ratification of the
prohibition amendment as the surest
way Of insuring law and order, Elk
Governor Willis Of Ohio, and r. p. Hut
ten Of Milwaukee, spoke at the Elks
Home shortly after noon today before
group of Kenoshans honestly con-
cerned with the welfare Of all classes
Of society both here and elsewhere
in Wisconsin.
A hundred and seventy-fve people
attended the banquet. A. E. Buckmas-
ter presided and introduced w. S.
Weldon, Of the Num-, Busch, and
Weldon Company Of Milwaukee, who in
turn presented the various speakers on
the ultra program Of oratory.
The Ex-Governor and Mr.. Hutton
said in part as follows:
F'There were several reasons why
the federal dry amendment was adopted
at this time, said Ex-Governor Frank
3. Willis, Ohio, speaking at the dry
jubilee mass meeting at the Elks' Club
at noon today.
eel. The trend of events showed it
must come sooner or later. Why post
pone? Better be fearless mourner
at the funeral than the cherries bed
fellow of the corpse.
''2. The patriotic reason: Because
we were in state Of siege, the govern
ment cut booze out Of camp and CAPT
tai. The people said, If booze were
bad for the man in uniform it was
equally bad for those in 'cits''; if it
was intolerable to see a statesman in
toxicated before visitors at the capital
he should be equally sober before his
constituents at home
49, Conservatism. When we were
straining every nerve to feed ourselves
and our allies, the people felt it was
more important that cattle be corn
fed than that men be corn-juiced.
"a. Discovery that the liquid
bread argument was ridiculous fake.
There are more vitamines in a lettuce
leaf than in barrel of beer.
KS. Industrial argument: The coun-
tries which drink most have the lowest
wages. The cities which drink most
have the lowest wage scales; and the
high rate of accidents cuts equally in
to dividends.
EF6 The humanitarian reason: The
indisputable proof that beer fills jails
and empties churches and schools;
crowds the brothel and destroys the
home; fills the eyes and empties the
savings bank.
''Driven from the national fireside,
like Cain, beer has set its hand against
every man; and yet there are still those
who, as attorneys, having taken the
oath to uphold the constitution, will
sell their talents to help them defeat
this corrective expression of the peo-
pies will.
"Defiance of the dry amendment
breeds derision for all law. The seed
of Bolshevism is in our midst. Liquor
defiance will water it, and we shall
house that creed which hates the thrift
Of industry as it eschews the barber
and the bath tub. The mo beer, no
work, cry does not come from honest
labor unions, but from socialistic So
viets masquerading in the cloak of
labor. 1t is Prussian begotten and wet
nursed of beer.
"America is patient, but that does
not mean that the orderly liberty of our
free people shall be overthrown or seri-
ously menaced by anarchism. L. w. W.
ism or Russian sovietism. AS time goes
on, there will be more Ole Hansons.
FThese malevolent agitators who
allege the red-handed Trostky and
the treacherous Lenine to be statesmen
and reformers ought to be shipped back
where they belong, in the weltering
chaos of Russian anarchism.
"AH our people must learn anaw the
Lesson CT respect for law shoa.l he
come the political religion Of the ma
SION, and every patriot shoul sacrifice
increasingly on its affairs. If respect
for the law, which we ourselves
Through our representatives, have
made, grow weak, then all hope of free
republican government amorg men is
gone, and nations viii degenerate into
mobs-an easy prey for dcmagogues
an6 dictators. We stand at TIC par ting
Of the ways. One is Beer enc Bolshe-
vism. The other is Law and Liberty
Choose ye this day. =
K. 2. Hutton, superintendent of the
Wisconsin Anti-Ssicon League, said:
The anti-government socialism now
pidemie in Milwaukee and other parts