| Show Warner V amer Answers Mayor Rose RoseOn Roseon ose On the Liquor Question i I 1 ai 1 1 L Lt I 1 I 1 o 1 G 1 r t I I I 2 v V U Vi I r i L i J JADAM ADAM DIXON WARNER Adam Dixon Warner familiarly known knowlI on oh the Pacific Pac Ilk coast co a I I m Silver Did ill In this city elt last Sun undertook lo to refute and succeed succeeded Hl ed cd lie tho almost notoriously fatuous famous I of oC Mayor lnor Roso Rot Ro of oC Milwaukee lit In Inthe n the defense o of or the liquor traffic Mr MI MrA A arraignment of oc tho Iho saloon evil was IUS tS as n 8 follows H II I t IH is not with vengeance that I speak Ial against a tho Iho Institution of oC evil ovll I am making this light tight against those institutions of uC evil the tho saloon aloon and the whisky traffic and a 1111 tho the Invasion of oC tho the rights and liberties of tho the peo people pie IIII on tho the same name broad ground Unit that Washington and Jefferson and Frank Franklin lin list and amI Adams and Hamilton and Patrick Henry Henr and Lloyd Garrison i und and Wendell Phillips and Henry Henr art urd and a 1111 the Immortal Lincoln tind Grant fought and waged war against n that other slavery slaver to free the human race upon the broad ground of oC what Lincoln said was wasP the thereal theresi real resi issue In this country countr the eternal struggle between these two to principles right and wrong wron They are arc the two principles that have havo stood steed face Cace to face from Ironi the beginning of time lime and 11 ever e I continue to struggle The one Is la the common right of or hu ho humanity inanity manity and the other la is the divino right of or kings l The TIle one is hi equal rights anti and the other special privilege It Is IH tho tto same name principle In whatever shape It Itself It U Is la the tue th Kamu sante me spirit that says you work worl and toll toil ami and amIe turn e bread ant and Ill eat cat It What i slavery said ald the tho whisky traffic trae und nod tho the saloon say sa You work and toll anti earn bread and well cat eat 11 it M My Iy fight Is hi not against the tho saloon saloonKeeper Keeper he Is II but an n Incident of oC tho the argument my barrel Is II with tho tito traffic that hm hUI dragged down and Is dally daily dragging down the tho brightest minds of or too lito tuition nation OPPOSE DEVELOPMENT DI I I 1 oppose tIll tho saloon und and the liquor traffic because they the arc opposing the higher development of oC the human I oppose olloe them because t the traffic Increased during the last decade 30 39 pi ja r coin cent while the population de Ic of oC citizenship Increased nearly double what citizenship In Increased Increased creased d dI I oppose them because wino and whisky tool took an on Inch oft off tho thi th French race ruce In IOU years and anil Its ravages have hac Increased ns as the con consumption has ha Increased In America 1 I oppose them because calse the highest tribunal In ill the tho land says pays that If Ifa a II loss of oC revenue should accrue to the United States from Irom a ii diminished consumption of oC ardent ardnt who shu Ii Would bo be b a gainer galnor a In Inthe inthe the health wealth and happiness of the people It hits has caused more mor misery and crime than titan all alt other oilier sources A REMEDY SUGGESTED TED TEDI I have ha boon asked 1151 01 since I r have been heln my 01 solution of oC the Uw gambling and walking I answer Hire a t new n w chief of oC police tolice If It J that wont do hire a I lit mayor All Au 11 police power Is It sum sunt summary summary mary rower power and you ou let lot the law 11 via vio violator later lator the tho the soiled Holled woman and ancl tin army arm of Ir law violators that oft off of oC law Jaw un understand that t tho the police power Is 18 going to bo bl enforced and you OU will vilt have to get set geta a n sPecial l train to take thorn thom out of ot town tout tOIl 11 foal fast enough h if lC you ou dont believe It II make a trip to Los Angeles and ancl ask tho ito present nt mayor maor and chief of ot polIte police We Vt rf recalled u a t mayor for Cor re refusal to enforce the law and und hired a II an an n w chief of oC police pollee i And today toda Los Angeles Is the model city of ot America Now ow the dens den of uC Infamy and gambling hells are closed and the keeper v tho ho violates tho tue law loses his hit license and his hili place Is closed and the city Is III clean clan and our OUI wives and sisters Bisters are arc tate cafe I 1 say official o al Is 15 the worst WorlO kind of oC It Is III the B II 1 of ot degeneracy of ot government coY Malfeasance In und of ot law are arc tho the two greatest evils In civic civie government lawlessness Is I the time most In ln and Insidious evil In civil gay gov government gO emment It strikes at the very 01 foun Court dation of o government and antI Is anarchy TIme The public who viso wilfully betrays his trust Is as a guilty of oC treason on to his hll Lito or his hit city elty ns as was Benedict Ar AI Arnold Arand nold antI and not the people popIe I hold holtI pub pull lIe lic up to a strict adherence and accountability will tili betrayal of oC public trust end TilE THE SALOON IN POLITICS Every city elt In the United States Slates that has hal been r l and disgraced by b the th exposures of oC Investigations has hall been beon the time victim of oC the tue saloon In politics politic I have havo defended a thousand men mets for crime and I know the saloon Is the time robbers retreat time tho housebreakers i pawnshop the cache the tho foot footpads footpads footpads pads fence fene and ani the assassins alibi INVADES THE TIlE SCHOOLS I havo hale seen sen it Invade the educational Institutions and take time the Idol of oC a mothers heart head from front the teat seat of learn log ing 1111 and amid a leave leae him u a pitiable mass of depravity denIt in the time snitter I have hao seen lIeen it Insinuate Itself Into time the domestic dom lIe circle elide and beguile sweet Innocence and purity tho the most perfect adornment of oC society th 1 home bOttle from rom tho timo happy hearth hearthstone stone Into a life liCe of or shame and dis honor Public opinion must be expressed presed e at atthe time the Ih polls The Tho elective franchise Is n a nut duty ut Compulsory voting is necessary To repress lawlessness elevate the th moral tone tono of the community two essentials aro are necessary The Time Is Isa I Ia isa a strong controlling public opinion and nOti tho the determined of oC the people to I I have hae tho the laws enforced The moral mural condition of a community will not rise above aboe the level loel of the sociological force Corce behind It A community can hae have Just jURt Justas jURta as a good loud or had government us it wants If IC It permits civic slavery It will set got It As Lincoln denounced slavery as a n cancer that was sapping the tho vitals of or the th nation r I oppose the Ule saloon on the same sarno ground that Uncle Sam the tIme state the county and the th city refuse to allow the saloons to operate when they the are transacting the tho business of oC the franchise with the people BLANDER OF 01 LINCOLN CorN CorNI I call the th billion and antI n a half dollars that camo came out of oC the pockets Of oC the uc the wage walo earners last year ear that was earned tom for bread and clothes and education but went wont for Cor whisky whisk und and destruction ion ionI I want to call the Immortal 1 Lincoln as a witness I want to prove to the people of oC Salt Lako and amul anI the entire United States that Mayon Mayoo Roses Ro oll at tf to holster holl ter up UI his defense of oC the time saloon and anti the accursed liquor traffic with the tho aid of Abraham Lincoln Was Wasa a base libel and a n slander against a the name narre of ot one of the worlds greatest patriots I am told that Mr Ir Rose did h here rc Just what he lie did lid In Chicago That ho cited house Journal of o 1839 0 of tho the records record II of oC tie the secretary of o state of o Illinois to create the th Impression and anti prove that Lincoln was In favor CUOI of oC tho the saloon anti the liquor traffic The fact Is I that all that record dis disclose disclose discloses close closes and antI I have hae a transcript tran of oC Mr 11 Roses Rost statement of or the tho record that Mr Lincoln made mado a motion to lay an all amendment on the table Now XII Hose knows and every eer lawyer In Ir politician parliamentarian nearly nearl every eer layman anti and schoolboy knows know that such a u mo mno motion motion tion could have havo no other othel effect than to tolay tolay tolay lay tho the whole subject matter on the table And the net act was An act to regulate tavern and grocery TOCOI licenses Such a CL thing thinS as all the tho accursed ed Insidious present icy day saloon was unknown at hat time lime The fhe entire entin truffle traffic was done don donIn In till tile tavern antI and grocery grocer Again Mr 11 Lincoln ut at that time was a moore mere boy ho and his hi experience was somewhat limited But tin three PC years later Inter In IS listen to what Mr Ir Lincoln In his Memorial day address before the time Temperance society Feb 22 1842 delivered In the most sa so sacred cred erod hour of oC what he believed to be hU hi life birthday APPLICABLE NOW And ono one would think he was talking of oC present day II a conditions He Ho said laid Although the time temperance cause causo has been In progress for nearly twenty years It Is apparent app to all nil that It Is Just now being crowned with a degree of oC success hitherto unparalleled The Time list of ot Its friends Is dally daily swelled by b the time additions of or fifties of ut hundreds and pf pC f thousands The fhe cause aUMe Itself seems scorns suddenly transformed from Crom coin a cold abstract theory to a n liv living 11 livin ing In breathing active and powerful chieftain going forth Conquering and to Conquer The Time citadels of oC his great Crent I utIel sary oary arc are dally daily dull being stormed und and dismantled his liln hi temples and antl his altar where here the time rights of oC his hili Idolatrous wor worship worship or I ship have long been performed and where human sacrifices have hu lung long lun been wont vont to be made me ure us e dally daily desecrated 1 and deserted d The Time triumph of oC the th conquerors fame Is Ii sounding from hill to hill hili from e sea tta a to sea j and from land to tu land und amid culling cullin millions to his imis I standard at a It blast t When hen one who has h long lun been known as nit a 11 victim nf or Intemperance bursts the time fetters that have bound him und and appears before his neighbor clothed and amid In his hl right mind a n redeemed specimen of oC long lost humanity und and stands up with tears of Joy jO trembling in hl his ey eI n to tell of the tho miseries once endured now not notto to be bo endured no more forever of ot his I once naked and starving children now non nolI clad and fed Ced comfortably of OCL a ml wio 1110 I long Ionic weighed down dOln by woe weeping with a n broken heart now restored to ie I health hr alth happiness and amul renewed and amid how ho easily cosily It Is lii all 1111 done how lIow mople his language there Is a 1 logic anil an aim eloquence In It that few fott with hu ho human man feelings celins can resist 1 Whether or am not time the th world would bc ho i 5 booSted benefited by h n mt total and amid banishment from COIn It of all till mii seems ems to me not mint now an question of ur mankind ll u the lh with thelm thell tongues lIls and amid I believe that all oil the rest resta a ii knowledge It In lii their thI hearts Fur For the man suddenly I or In Iii any ami other oIlier way a to break off from the UI ties uso U O of drams drains rams who vho ho has Indulged III in them for fora a long bug course of QC years carll and until his hl appetite for or them has grown ten tenor or a II stronger and more craving cra cla lug ing natural appetite can comm be hl s a most powerful moral effort In such an undertaking he needs every moral 0 Ia I support and anti Influence that can cun possibly be brought to his old aid a and thrown around him And Anti not miot only so ml hut every moral 0 In I pi op should he be taken from whatever argument an lImont might rise In his ils mind to 10 lure him to his hili back backsliding sliding When he casts his eyes ee around aroundhim aroundhim him ilm him ho should be able ablo to see all that thul Ito he ie respects all timid that he lie admires all that lint he h loves luve kindly and anxiously an him him onward and nono none beck bpck oiling him hack back to his hiI former miserable wallowing In the time mire Now If ii I that Is I not miot a sufficient prohibition bilion speech for Cor Mr Nr Rose Roe und and the time brewers and amid distillers and amid saloonkeepers ers era anti and barkeepers barkeeper and antI bawdy house kepel I 1 dont know what they the want Rose nose says 1 s that ho searched l through all of oC the tho writings and all that h ie iris Ins seen seems written about Lincoln to tu find where Mr 11 Lincoln had hind ever eer said an thinS on ems time the prohibition and amid leaves tIme the th Impression and struggles sits glee to create creat the Impression that Lin Lincoln calms coln was as in iii favor Cavor of or the time liquor traffic when If f he lie had been half as honest homiest with the public as he lie was va zealous for Cor hits his employers he would have looked hooked on p pages Vol 1 I centennial edition sf of writings of Lincoln published In 1905 and on Oil page pase of tho the same ame book whore whole Mr 11 Lincoln himself In a letter to Joshua Speed Sred says that his speech was hed l In iii time the th Sangamon Jour Journal Journal nal mial And Anil If I Mayor Roso had half looked In iii tho the state house In Spring Held Ill Iii ho would have MC found Cound tho the Sangamon Journal on file me containing the full speech from Crom which these quo quotations are nr extracts PERSONAL P LIBERTY r Mayor Rose linac talks about personal I lib liberty erty What hat heroines becomes of oC your personal liberty when you ou disobey your our police health or lire ordinances His B mislead misleading InS big and amid fallacious personal liberty may continue to mislead ml md the Ignorant I so RO his lila clients may mo further ro rob r b them but tut his argument Is fully Cull answered by bythe time the decision of the supreme court of the he United States in the tho case of oC Crowl Crow row l liv ny vs s from Crom my m own state tate California decided In 1ST Iti U IT s 08 page pae 87 81 It Ic Is not personal liberty that Mayor Hoso Is pleading for 01 It U Is not hot moro mora per personal liberty that time the distiller brewer and amid saloonkeeper want scant but It Is lipe special special cial privilege lel e to make money mooney out of or ortho tho other fellows personal liberty ort They want special pedal privilege to malt male H II t living I out of oC the time mooney money mon the other f r jw ni J has named for 01 bread This Is III time the same caine argument that thit the theother theother other used to lo Wendell Phil I w Honry Vard Beech r and amid Abra Ahra Abraham hum ham Lincoln and amid Lincoln answered I them hem that their slavery won ansi a n cancer eating out the vitals Ita of the nation anil he lie answered them with time the proclamation thou tion of emancipation Mr Ir Hose Itose asks th tim business men of oC time tilt country If Ir time the Industry does docs not pay ly Into the hI treasury i and amid tSI St In the th city dt treasury I ask isk the th business men If Ir they thc would not lint mthr have hat had that thit amount spent In th tiit regular channels of trade that did mild not nOl produce want and hunger that had to tobo tobe tobe be bo eared card for COl by hy time the charities 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