Show Soldiers rs Made Insane by byi byl i h i Hypocrisy an and Ignorance I aA A orance Lt A car filled with wi th crazy soldiers is on its way from San Fran Francisco Francisco FranCisco cisco to Washington in charge of Major J T Kennedy Of these thC r unhappy insane men a majority will spend heir days clays in in a govern government gov government rn ment insane asylum und in nine cases out of ten this is due In to Inthe inthe the rank hypocrisy of Congress the ignorance and bigoted fana cism of Prohibitionists that have succeeded in abolishing the tho army canteen 1 All of these insane soldiers are brought fro je e Philippines Philippine and their insanity as os Major ajol Kennedy y says is Ls due to their drinking of the vile poisonous highly alcoholic drink called C bind bino loaded with the vilest alcohol and full fall ull of other poisons The men drink this dreadful stuff and become bC insane BECAUSE IGNORANT PRO PROHIBITIONISTS 1 HAVE HA VB PERSUADED A HYPOCRITICAL CON COX CONGRESS GRESS GR I 55 TO ABOLISH J I THE TIIE ARMY RIY CANTEEN President Taft knows that thai is true Every member of Congress KNOWS that it is true trite But i tho hc I Congressman Con gressman fears f nr the much exaggerated voting power of the Pro Prohibitionist Prohibitionist Prohibitionist whereas he ho has bas nothing g to fear feRr from that carload of r era craz crazy soldiers enlisted to serve their country countr anti and an l then made vie yie J tims tiros of stupid fanaticism t l When the thc soldiers sol ier had their canteen aJ teen they were content and amI amIth they th were as ns a whole a remarkably sober body hody of men inch menNo No strong drink could bo hI served Fet d in the tho canteen and nn the flue men lieu did not wander off to the fhe whisky dive or craze craze themselves with ith vile ilc native nat e drink The man in charge harge of the canteen ranked ns as a n I officer He allowed no man to drink to excess c Any An sol soldier so dier diel showing any sign of intoxication was ordered to go to bell be belland t tand I and he hc WENT and the next nest day clay da he was glad that he had boon been fit It atthe the soldiers club find and nc nl been beon made to ohe ll rules of decency No man made a n penny ont out of oi the canteen Every cent taken j jin in over and above expenses was devoted d to providing d ies nonalcoholic for the soldiers Today in the dives that surround army y p posts old soldiers homes and every other place where hypocrisy rules nileR in the name of o temperance the soldiers and the old veterans are made the victims ift nn of sharks They must drink vile poison or change a lifelong habit and drink nothing j Meanwhile the hypocrites in Congress who voted against the right of the soldiers to have ha C their canteen drink as ns much as they thy choose and WHEN they tho choose and not a few of the ardent advocates cates of canteen abolition outside of Congress do the thc same This situation is s disgraceful to the country a sample of puritan puritanical 9 ical hypocrisy that should be tolerated no longer Men lien content to drink mild beer or light wines a re forbidden todo to Lo Lodo todo do that in the name nume of temperance and then in jn the name of tom tent J Jp p and hypocrisy they the y are driven to the dive and to the vilest alcoholic poisons as a substitute for the truly temperate canteen j jEvery Every officer in tho the army testifies that this is true i General Fred Grant himself an ardent prohibitionist who j marched in full uniform at the head hoad of a Prohibition parade du de Glares that the thc abolition of the canteen has hns vastly increased drunk enness enneRS in the army Every army doctor knows that the abolition of the canteen r J has increased disease the hospital record of our American army r ris is today the WORST OF ANY ARMY ARiY IN THE TilE WORLD Jj How does that strike the men that would force their minority i views on a 1 majority play pla lay an upon on the hypocritical o of dE 3 Congress and saying to men Yon You shall not have temperate light drinks in your our army arm club force them to take instead the vile ill whisky of the dive here at home or the vile native alcoholic poison in the Philippines 1 Mr Taft has shown courage to say sar what he lie thinks Will Vill lib hb j protect the soldiers sold er against this Otis cowardly outrage outrages Newspaper editors every ever man of them knowing well that this is true should t explain to their several Congressmen that hypocrisy in the long run rue does not pay And Ancl sane sanc independent men in Congress should fight against the cowardly evasion of duty The Thc canteen WILL BE RESTORED and the army will not be he permanently organized for the benefit of dive keepers What man at Washington will make it his business to see to this Chicago American can |