New Britain herald., 1923-05-21
MINISTER BROADSIDES DRINKERS AND SELLERS
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 There are sams people Co whom Fesigioh seems impossible, There |
 heihiRE iR them sa hpiia on, Thel aFe moral GeEfaeFatRs, There is ni use io woFk with them, Put them iT lails eF do anything with them, soms Of them do not seem Co care for Te tlgian whatever There are those Whs refuse sdneaiion because they have nc interest iR iL There are those whs have the ability ta learn hut they arr taken hP with ether things too much The same thing applies ia religion, Igr heFanef Is the Whela thiRE One req sen some people will rot he converted Is that they are iR lsve with their sin
 Think ef a man with a disease who says he likes f. There isn't s man here who doesn't know, in spite af what the fAetaFs say, that smak Ing Is had, We know it is bad for ns, h Fort Worth, Texas, they had a store where they sold smokers sup plies, They had little brass monkey with some sort of device inside which caused him ta smoke cigarettes lust ss naturally as q human could ie f, II worked all right for a while but one day it stopped.
 'It was found that the nicotine in ! ihe cigarettes had rotiad the wheels i in the machinery on inc inside of the monkey, if that is what happened 10 the machinery in that monkey what must happen 10 the human organs ? But there are young men who wont fult H. They are in love with this burning disease that Is killing them. They go on every day filling their sys- iems full of the filthy stun that would rot the wheels Of a brass monkey.
 European Propaganda on Booye
 There are men who look almost intelligent yet they believe the propaganda that is coming over from Europe saying prohibition K some thing we should fight against. Those men will say. look al the poor foreigners, They must have their beer. If they do want their beer. let them go live where they sell Il. In Paris and Brussels they arc having great secret conventions Of the liquor men. They are sending millions to fight prohibition in this country. They say, If we could only make America wet. it will be the greatest battle we ever won" Some Of you fellows are dupes of that propaganda coming into this country. There are many who look inte,lent, yet they say that prohibition was slipped over in America. They say people did not want 1t. that this amendment 10 the constitution was not tho thing to do. This amendment was made like the other seventeen. ree-fourths of the states of America ratified the vote of the house Of representatives. On August 1, 1917, the national senate voted 55 to 20 In favor of prohibition. The house of representatives on De- cember :, 1917, voted 2s5 to l2s in favor of prohibition and then 1t was submitted to the legislatures of the states and within one year 36 states had signed 1t. Later 10 more came in. Rhode Island and Connecticut were the only ones against 1t. When this was going on the liquor forces could not get 13 per cent of the states to oppose it. I' Before the amendment was passed 1 ;o.o00,o 900 people were living in dry , erritory. When did it begin? The 1 year 1851 was when the first state { went dry. Yet people tell us that ( his was slipped over. Those people ought to have a regular backbone in- ,tead of a string for backbone. And Is here are men that ought to stand or truth who will make fun of pro- libition and help to make 1t nara to .nforce the law.
 What is man who Will break he law? He is a lawbreaker wheth- IF it is the 18th amendment or any ,ther one. If you break this law you re putting yourself in a class with i. ,olshevists and anarchists. If a man , S playing on the golf course at the huttle Meadow club and takes out ,ottle to drink from It. that man is ,olshevist, disgrace to his law. ate dressed up. gentlemanly sort or awbreaker worse than hate tHe .reasy. low down ones. If you are n A club where they sell 1t, vote gainst it. They want us to think hat 1t is not working so that we can ave a repeal. I will see that whole roup In hell before I will keep quiet bout it. ''The opossum met the skunk on his is way home one night. The skunk old the opossum he was afraid to ght whereupon the opossum an- wered he was not afraid to fight but e would be ashamed to go home to Is wife and children after fighting .ith such thing as the skunk was
 decent man would be ashamed , go home to his wife and children fter fighting with these dirty skunks K f bootleggers." When our boys came homo from rance in the late war, what did they a nd. Those boys who worked for $50 month, who were willing to give up ,eir lives as 45,00o of them did. w down, weak -kneed, stupefied and iffpcated, big -stomached group Of .loonkeepers crying, We want beer ow did they look in the eyes of the How who was willing to give his re for his country."