The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-23
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CRIME
AGAINST
TEMPERANCE.
NlAIAEI A.REED
NoRMER US. SENATOR
FROM MISSOURI
ARTICLE ONE

n SANN
l. Anti-Saloon League in the great
reformatory work Of prohibition, it
is desirable to inquire into its origin.
Whence comes this deus ex machina,
this agency for the eleventh-hour
saving of mankind? The Rev. Fran
els Scott Mcbride, its general SUI
perintendent, already has provided
a birth certificate. Hear him:
1.-THE league was born of God.
1t has been led by Him and will
fight on while He leads. The one
thing that stands out is that those
things in the way of progress of
the kingdom of God must get out
of the way"
Born of God! Apostolic delegate
of the Almighty! A divine institu-
ton! Omnipartisan! Omnipotent!
Ohnipresent!
Such the Anti-Saloon League, in
tablets of stone and bronze, pro-
claims itself to be.
With a diadem of divinity upon
its brow, it substitutes the police
mans club, the prison and the
scourge. for the teachings of Christ.
BY the felon's stripe, by the dun
geon, men are to be redeemed from
their sins.
Away with the old theology of
salvation by repentance and faith!
Up with the new theocracy OF re-
demption by force!
The divine right of kings has
passed to the Anti-Saloon League
of America. 1t sits enthroned upon
the pedestal of intolerance in
Washington. 1t boasts of its usurpa-
ton of the power of representa-
tive government.
1t seizes the scales Of justice and
makes itself inquisitor, prosecutor,
judge and jury to deprive citizens
of their liberty, to conf1scate their
citizenship, and their property to
consign them to durance vile for
the sale of a pint. It fills the land
with swarms of spies and shoppers
to plague the people, pry into their
homes, to entrap them, to jam them
in jail.
TINE widow, earning a mite to
4 feed her starving children, by
the sale of a little liquor, is SEN
fenced to penitentiary for life. The
wife calling for help to protect hus-
band knocked insensible by a blow
on the head with the butt of an en-
forcement officers pistol, is shot
dead in her own home.
Thus moves forward the divine
plan of the Anti-Saloon League, I'M
der divine guidance, in the execu-
ton of its apostolic task of destroy
ing the beverage liquor traffic.
1.-THE contamination of such a
mission" it exclaims, "is one of
the greatest moral achievements of
a self-governing people"
There is no doubt of the Anti
Saloon Leagues divine origin, nor
that it was born of God. BY solemn
resolution it has established its
divinity. 1t has inserted its divine
conception and birth in the Con-
gressional Record, where wicked,
wet-drinking, dry-voting congress-
men may read as they run for re-
election on an Anti-Saloon League
platform.
There are other proofs. At the
great Crisis convention" of the
Anti-Saloon League in Chicago, on
Nov. 5, 1925, the league placed the
crown of divinity upon the head OF
its founder and resolved itself to be
a divine institution. Let us read
from the resolution, written by the
great Wheeler:
Every leader of a religious or
moral movement has been pre-
pared by Almighty God for that
one task.
The leader in the divine plan to
unite the churches of America in
the Anti-Saloon League for the
destruction OF the beverage liquor
traffic was Howard Hyde Russell.
To him, under God, is traceable
the conception and execution of
that plan.
Every step in his career has been
evidenced by divine guidance in
preparation for this apostolic task.
60 you see the Anti Saloon
~ League scheme to "pry" open
the churches by the use of money,
to use their pulpits as rostrums for
its propaganda, and agencies for
the collection of money. was a
divine plan" The resolution says
so. But read IN:
Obedient to his divine vision, he
led the representatives of the
churches of America to the or
ganiZation of an interdenomina-
tional omnipartisan Anti Saloon
League at Oberlin, o., May "a,
1893.
Supported and directed by the
churches, this league has educated
public sentiment against the bev-
erage liquor traffic, crystallized
the public conscience in law, and
now promises fulfillment of the
last and most difficult task-law
enforcement and law obedience.
The consummation of such mis-
sion is one of the greatest moral
achievements Of a self govern
ing people.
So it is a divine institution. It's
task is apostolic. It has fiourished
under divine guidance and inspira-
ton. Every step has been in tune
with divinity.
1t is proved by the documents in
the case. 1t is true that a senate
committee had to use the power of
a subpoena TO find the evidence, but