The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-08-12

Christianity in gear with the de- - : ---
mocracy. The words go well 'oi'N w. "ooAhHi
lgether and the ideas obviously
leverage and loose ideas have friction
the business and there only way get The
citizen be faithful to his chu politics and faithful
politics in church In the Eighteenth Amendment begun
to do it The Prohibition party the prophet that proclaimed
the principle and The Anti Saloon League
the mechanan that applied the principle and got
We finish what have begun, the liquor
and the devils of the parable back the swept
and garished capitol
the divine right Christian to organize
majority he To organize majority only
assemble but also to make function with its power We
have assembled majority But the organization is very
pete The present front OF the pohbtoy policy by
combination specialists wearing church. but
detached exceptional selfdiected and relatively very
will be pushed back unless the main body yet brought
|rp the fighting line consolidate the position and push
Iirresistby intelligent advance.
The soveny and pict that too proud fight
too busy and after the cafeteria plan puts the offices
display and lets the brokers job chasers help themselves must
and i'll every unit of government from the presidency
clear Drained digent Christian and have ticket
the field and push the prps and grafters from the payroll
The call of the fight speec1maker and professional
reform still persists But the silent unprosona enlisted Chris
tan keep faith politics This democracy Isl
here people and there hope OF Christian
but Christian ahulness in politics We have
voted the liquor dealer and his friends But have whipped
the liquor trade Saloons and venn cam
whip vermin. can't regulate" hours
for cockroach can't make a bargain fly
keep the Sabbath That why they vermn
destroy them support them that's all and destroying them
victory but PLAIN decency
What trying say is, that the duty OF the hour is all
round ath,1ness in politics.
the long against the liquor busness-now entering the
hundred and thirteenth yeare tide OF battle steadily against
the of the saloon until the Prohibition party dragged the
whole subject down the clouds OF ou sentiment and
"dgged in in the practical politics. We tried preach
death and got fat We tried teachf to death and grew
like green bay We tried kill it with vangeistic meetings
and right and prospered We tried to kill it by getting
people the pledge and leased it. 1t grew riches
power and nsoence right along The liquor dealer stood in the
his deada with appropriately symbolic butchers apron
his boaed pan pulled the church. despsed it, and not
He would permit knce i'll his
and pray He would place his window for the photograph
the speaker He would favor legislation for teaching
Temperance in the schools He Temperance man. if we
would keep the subject politics. The church and the states
nanship agreed with him. We did keep poll
Mics long did, kept the liquor business safe from
harm.
powerful but it like automobile with
any had perfectly good steering gear It had
engine had reliable cooling system. 1t built on
beautiful lines and OF supeaive materials But it wouldn't go
its members gripping the main shaft
democracy and transmitting the its heart through
the cankhaft business life the cogwees of politics in the
rear axle
power of automobile is applied in the axle SO
power rear axle of church democracy
lis politics church is largely measured by the
ability the spirit of the pulpit the
civic life YOU develop endless i'll meeting
until the deaf hear but can't
make the hind wheels round are helpless The hind wheels
the political parties When inflated, the other
spent every winter cranng the church and the
engine and roared and the hind wheels stuck and the
power mechanism the world stood roaring in neutral
the kings highway watching the red tail light OF the liquor trade
round the city hail. to Harrisburg and to Washington
mus the The Prohibition party
kept shouting Throw cluch But unable Organ
majority The AntSaloon League took the wheel and the
world felt the grind OF power gears
committee of 1000 men, that sweed to 10000 the way