The Bismarck tribune., 1927-10-06
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YANKEES III IL Ii O 0 o o. E} U zee Isl III N
PIRATES I'D 90 U M 0 Il M -. II II 2
For New York-Ppgras and Bengough.
For PittsburghAldridge, Cvengros and Dawson Gooch
U. S. ON BRINK
OF A HUNDRED
YEAR BACKSET'
World Movement of Powers of
Darkness Pressing Close,
Says Mecklenburg

Charging that 'eworld movement
Of the powers Of darkness" is press
ing hard on America, DR.. Geo. Neck
lenburg, representative of the Meth
odist Board of Temperance, Prohibi-
ton and Public Morals, today de-
clared that anti-prohibition move
ments are "prying wedges" to open
the floodgates Of European vice.
DIR. Mecklenburg, q speaker on to-
days program of the North Dakota
Methodist conference, discussed
European Drunkenness vs.. Ameri-
can Prohibition"
The things he saw in European
countries permitting the sale Of
liquor were detailed by DR.. Meek
lenburg. In Italy, he said, 10 times
as much is spent for drink as for
education, while babies are poor and
scrawny looking. Alcohol was found
"doing its worst" in Austria, DR..
Mecklenburg said. On one street in
Vienna, he counted % saloons in a
half mile stretch, while clinic for
alcoholism there has q daily grist
of % delirium tremens cases, he
said.
Many Women Drink
1.-THE most astonishing thing to an
American in England IL the drink
ing-0s women DR.. Mecklenburg
said. II saw more women than men
in the public houses. The annual
drink bill is $1,575, ,000, 900, which is
six times the amount paid for bread
and five times the amount spent for
education.
Il saw Europe tired, cynical, disil-
lusioned and war weary. A revul-
sion against democracy, against
pacifism and against International
ism was noticeable in the current
literature. The cry is, Give us
bread, give us sensual pleasure,
away with your world dreams!
1--WE are on the brink Of . hundred
year backset in moral achievement
for the race. The gateway that IS
in danger Of opening to this tide IS
our Europe anized centers OF popu-
lation, like Few York and Chicago.
It. is morality and American decency
and Christianity which is at stake"
A hundred years Of prohibition
and temperance agitation has pro-
duced in America, the only prosper
Gus and happy nation on earth to-
day, q type Of clean and sober peo-
pie that cannot be matched on this
earth, DR.. Mecklenburg said.
Mussolini's Work
Turning to Benite Mussolini,
premier of Italy, DR.. Mecklenburg
discussed his work in organizing the
Fascist party, now in power in Italy.
The new philosophy Of govern
ment exemplified by Italy today is
q "most serious tendency" DR..
| Mecklenburg said.
1.-THE very heart of Democracy is
the individual" he said. "Jesus
Christ was the only perfect express
sion of Democracy in this world.
He believed that the universe exist
ed for the single individual. Musso-
lini stands for the exact opposite Of
that for which Christ stood. Musso-
| lini is dancing on the grave OF
Democracy. If this were confined
only to Italy, it would not be 50 SER
| ious, but found the same tendencies
against democracy in Spain, Portu-
gal, Poland, Turkey, Russia and even
| in Germany"
The condition Of world WEAKNESS
now existing in Europe IS ct the
root Of the terrible slump" Of that
country morally, DR.. Mecklenburg
averred: Drunkenness has in
creased five fold" he said. ma.
tions that used to drink wine and
beer now drink strong liquors. Il
is not altogether . question Of what
we are now; it is more q question OF
what we now would be Is = nation
with the old liquor traffic with 9
strange hold on our nation. When !
came home, / thanked God Tor
American prohibition"