Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-11-19
MASS MEETING,
ME-. CHURCH
Hear Report OF Dele
gates to Anti Sa-
loon League Con-
VentiOn


A union mass meeting to hear
the report Of Rows. Sproule and
Kundert, delegates to the National
Anti-saloon League convention was
held at the First M. E. church Sun
day night
Rev. w. H. Sproule spoke first,
referring especially to prominent
men attending the convention. A
mong these were Andrew J. Vol
stead, author of the VoIstead law;
Lincoln Andrews, national prohibi-
ton enforcement chief; Gen, Bull
ard, head Of the Coast Guard, Gov.
PlnchOt OF Pennsylvania; Senator
Mckinley of Ohio; Judge Gemmill
Of Chicago; Kirby Robinson labor
leader, and Sam Small, the noted
southern evangelist.
Wayne Wheeler, general counsel
Of the League, said that il viola
ton Of the prohibition law is re-
garded with liberation generally,
tolerated violation of other laws
will follow.
BROUGHT Happiness
Other speakers declared that no
reform in the world has brought
50 much happiness as the outlaw
ing of the liquor traffic The law
is best enforced where enforcement
officials are in favor of it,
Rev. J. f. Kundert followed with
talk on THE Big Issue"
Democrats republicans, labor
leaders and others were on tho
platform.
only good and respectable cih-
zens" could lawfully obtain a Ii
cese to sell liquor in the old days,
but Judge Pollack called to memory
the many dealers who were found
guilty for violation of liquor laws.
Judge GemmiIl Of Chicago referred
to the fact that there were always
laws against selling to minors and
on Sunday but that they were con-
SANITY being broken He told OF
authorized saloon keepers in St.
Louis once complaining to the
authorities that there were $50
speak easies" in the city who
were taking custom from tho sa-
looms. This was an example Of Ii
uuor law breaking in the old days.
He also stated that the average
fine for convicted bootleggars in
Indiana is $500 In New York it
is $24, New York being openly wet.
Dsrespect for Law
Thus the prOhibitory law was
born into an atmosphere CT disrc-
spect for law, so it's enforcement is
not easy. But" said Judge Gem
mill, "there is less crime in this
country today than there was in
Puritan times. Then, in Boston,
the arrests numbered 10 per cent
Of the population. The proportion
in this country now is l " per cent.
The Chicago Tribune publishes a
'60-year-ago comm. An item in
t stated that there were 81 murd-
CTS in the city in one year. Chica-
go then had 100000 population. It's
record now is 365 murders in q
year, SO per cent decrease con-
sidering its present population"
Mayor Dever ousted 1000 soft
drink places where liquor was sold.
It is claimed that Chicago is now
the largest dry city in the world.
Judge GemmilI, who is relative of
A. J. Gemmill of Baraboo has al
ways stood for law enforcement,
has been elected Judge for % years
and has always led his ticket
Can BE Enforced
Education as to the evils of, Ii
quor drinking put over1 the pro-
hibitory law.
Laws unpopular to many can be
enforced, witness the draft law, the
sale of liberty bonds, etc. Sam
Small who is an old confederate
veteran, said that secession ran
four years. then ran into the
ground and broke Off, and he is
row glad Of it,
Stories Of the unusual amount of
drinking among young people. and
the general uupopularity of the
ryohibitory law are liquor propa-
gnda.
Among my many friends said
Mr. Kundert, there is no one who
is worrying over a drunken boy. 1t
was not SO in the old days. The
LIQUOR power is waiting for us to go
TO sleep at the switch"