The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-04-28

! his audience interested throughout, DR.
| Wilson Of Washington spoke briefly OF
| prohibition and moral reforms through
out the nation which his board wer'
working for He opened by referring t,
the effects of a misguiding religion
upon the German empire. Germany
was not a pagan land but q back
| slidden Christian land. A land where
| the Bible had been interpreted in a
negative way, way that eliminated
all the benefits of the spirit and up
held the material. With such start
Germany adopted for national bev-
erage the most poisonous of all kinds,
beer. Beer. he emphasized, robbed man
hood of its highest attainments, brut-
allied it's victim and killed its aspiras
tion to its highest evolution, those
qualities of kindness, mercy, consider
alton, etc. He would work to eliminate
beer drinking, beer-selling, beer-buy-
ing, beer giving and beer making as
the most dangerous to human welfare
of all evil tratiics.
He pleaded for a better process of
law enforcement. One of the main
drawbacks, he pointed out, in the peo-
pie making their own laws is that "fa-
miliarity breeds contempt and un-
less an effective process of law enforce
ment is brought to the front an ad
vaneement through law is impossible.
Taking as an example the attitude
taken by the southern whites against
the negro in defiance of the 18th and
18th amendments to the constitution,
he said that in nine southern states
no negroes are llowed TO vote. 1t is
not on so. but the worst of it is that
it is so without a fight.
In speaking of the American Vol
stead act he lauded the spirit in which
it was made and the act itself, but he
added it mas many deficiencies. As an
example he mentioned the fact that
the act, in applying to states, terri
tories, etc, failed to reach the island
possessions of the United States,
namely, the Philippines, where, under
the protection of the American flag,
breweries are thriving and alcoholic
traffic existing to the Generalization
of the child nations Of the east, The
same condition exists in the location
of American consular stations in for
eign lands.
Furthermore. DR.. Wilson explained,
the board was very much behind
for the return Of the Amer
lean sabbath. for the sake of the home
and for the church. Some states were
backing schemes whereby a caapter
from the Old Testament and a chapter
from the New Testament must be read |
every morning before any tax support |
ed school should open for the day. The |
time has come when the church must |
get off the defensive and take the Of
fensive. II is the only sure way to re-
suits They must hight the return of |
he prize fight. bring back the anti
gambling laws, stand against the red
light district abatement laws, and |
stand for the divine right of democ-
'acy, the right Of the people TO govern
themselves by their own laws through 4
he medium of the direct primary, the
light of recall. In defining the latter
he speaker emphasized the fact that
nasmuch as the people put their Off
.ials in office they ought TO be endowed
With the privilege of discharging them.
In closing he went over briefly the
manner in which the large Methodist
,ulding which is 10 be erected oppo.
lite the capitol building in Washington
lad been secured, and of the optimistic
Jews which he carried in mind as to
Is real benefit TO humanity through
cooperative movement Of the great
religions societies gathered
ogether in one, large six-story office