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Show R0A8T8 UNCLE JOE. . " Antl-Saloon Leaguer 8ays He Will Fight as He Prays. Chicago. "Evorywhoro from ocenn to ocean it Is bolng declared thnt! Speaker Joseph G, Cannon is tho greatest obstacle to moral advance-' mcnt In this country," was tho declaration dec-laration of Itov. P. Packer of Columbus, Colum-bus, O., gonoral superintendent of tho American Antl-Saloon League, at tho opening ot tho sixty-ninth session of iho nock Hlvor conferenco of tho1 Methodist Episcopal church In tho Woodlnwn Mothodlst church on Tuesday. Tues-day. "For ilght years tho course of reform re-form legislation was blocked on tho' tempornnco question. Wo prayed and appealed for an amendment to the Interstnto commerco law In regard re-gard to liquor. This ono man, your speaker from Illinois, Ihir kept tho Judiciary committee bowed down llko spaniels. Last winter wo got oft of our knees nnd concluded to help answer an-swer our own prayers. Wo havo already al-ready dofcatcd two of tho four mem-bora mem-bora of that commlttoo for ro-olectloi and aro after tho other two." |