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Jan. 1 



I feel that it would be an injustice to our 

 colored friends to omit mention of the ad- 

 dress of Prof. E. B. Curry, a colored man 

 who is president of the Curry College, at 

 Urbana, Ohio. He said: 



'• There is not a negro in the United States manu- 

 facturing beer. It is all made by some other fel- 

 low. lApplause ) I protest against the negro being 

 invited to help pa}- the cost of a traffic from which he 

 never has nor can receive the least benefit. "(Applause.) 



" The l-JO.litK) negroes of Ohio .say we appreciate the 

 enormous cost ol our emancipation; and now that the 

 people are waging a still greater conflict against an 

 evil still greater, we wish to have a hand in it. (Ap- 

 plause ) We abhor it, and ask the privilege to fight 

 this den of immorality, now seeking to-day a grave 

 for our prosperitv." 



'■ I ask you to' tip your hat to the patriotism of the 

 unbleached American. We are whitening within." 



Before closing- I wish to say something 

 in regard to the army canteen. At one of 

 the conventions of the Liquor League re- 

 cently, in view of the tremendous headway 

 the Anti-saloon League was making it was 

 suggested that they, the whisky people, 

 would have to get out a lot of literature, 

 and do " missionary work " as Christian 

 people do. They proposed to ransack the 

 world to find leading divines, if possible, 

 who will defend the saloon. They would 

 make extracts from their writings, and 

 spread these circulars broadcast. They 

 also propose to hunt up army generals who 

 favor the saloons. They are trying to gain 

 their point by manipulating statistics, these 

 statistics being in defense of the saloon and 

 canteen, which by some hook or crook are 

 to be got into the papers. They propose to 

 buy the space if necessary; but they want 

 it put in the reading-matter. Here is a 

 sample of the newspaper statements that are 

 sent out. Of course, we have some generals 

 in the army who are dead men — that is, 

 dead to the influences of the Holy Spirit. I 

 clip the following from a rectnt daily; and 

 please notice, friends, it is from General 

 Sanger — do not forget the name — who is 

 working for the reinstatement of the army 

 canteen: 



FAVORS THE CANTEEX. 



To remedy these conditions the post exchange, at 

 which light bet r was sold, was exercisng a wholesome 

 influei ce, and General Sanger believes the exchange 

 should be again made a possibility by removing all 

 restrictions on the sale of beer and light wines. 



Let me now give you some of his reasons 

 for favoring the canteen; and, by the way, 

 it is an excellent sample of the style of 

 reasoning that comes from these army 

 generals. The mothers of our land have, 

 as you well know, protested with all their 

 might against having their boys taught in- 

 temperate habits by the canteen. Here is 

 what General Sanger says in regard to it: 



To the fear, so often expressed by the opponents of 

 the canteen system, that the saleof beer would initiate. 

 or induce habits ot intemperance. General Sanger 

 .sho%vs irom a careful census of the o42 companies of 

 troops in the Philippine Islands that in tiO companies 

 eveiy enlisted man used vinous, m It, or spiritvious 

 liquors at da e of enlistment: in 1:W companies, be- 

 tween 90 and 100 per cent; in 58 companies, between 

 SO and bO per cent; in 25 companies, between 70 and 80 

 per C' nt; in 20 companies, between 00 and 70 per cent. 

 Un'ortunately quite a number of men habitually diink 

 to excess; and as this number will probab y increase 

 if the men are obliged, as now, to resort to native 

 liquors in order to satisfy what to many of them is a 



perfectly natural craving, the result will be most de- 

 ploraVjli. 



I know figures are sometimes dry read-- 

 ing; but it behooves us who love righteous- 

 ness (and pay taxes) to note carefully these 

 figures. In 60 companies, every enlisted 

 man was a drinking man at the time of his 

 enlistment. How is that for soldiers to de- 

 fend our rights? Is it true that our national 

 army is composed of a gang, the most of 

 whom could not get a job on any of our lead- 

 ing railways, or, say, in any of our leading 

 manufacturing establishments? God forbid. 

 The daily that gave place to the above, 

 said in an editorial on another page that it 

 was a pity if the officers of the army of the 

 United States could not have a law enforced 

 to banish saloons, say for five miles from 

 every army post. This indicates, without 

 question, that the management of the daily 

 paper did not sympathize with the report 

 from General Sanger that they were in- 

 duced to publish for some reason or other. 



Another point, in our navy intoxicating- 

 liquors have been ruled out for several 

 years past. How is it that we can not have 

 total abstainers in the army as well as in 

 the navy? If the above figures are true, is 

 it not high time that we had a regular 

 housecleaning, and that our drunken and 

 drinking privates, and officers as well. 

 were gotten out and some clean men with 

 clear brains put in their stead? General 

 Sanger suggests that the appetite for strong- 

 drink "is a perfectly natural craving." 

 Several young boys have gone from Medina 

 County — yes, they have enlisted and gene 

 to the Philippines to fight our battles — 

 boys who were clean and pure, and had no 

 such natural craving. I think the greattr 

 part of them came back proof against this 

 terribly dangerous ordeal of army life. It 

 behooves every father and mother in the 

 land to contradict these reports that the 

 brewers are circulating through the papers 

 and their circulars. This General Sanger 

 and all the rest of his gang need to be spot- 

 ted; and we each and all should write to 

 our Representatives in Congress, and pro- 

 test against this terrible state of affairs 

 that the whisky men themselves are bring- 

 ing to light. God is with us, and we shall 

 prevail — that is, is we are thoroughly tired 

 of being "dead men," and are ready, as in 

 the language of our text, to " stand up upon 

 our feet, an exceeding great army." 



SOME KIND WORDS FROM HOWARD H. RUS- 

 SELL, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE NATION- 

 AL ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE. 



Years ago, when the Anti-saloon League 

 was just started here in Ohio, at one of our 

 meetings at Lakeside I asked Mr. Russell 

 to go with us for an hour or two out on the 

 lake to a very pretty bathing-spot. He an- 

 swered me something like this: 



" Mr. Root, I should like to go with j'ou, 

 but I positively can not spare the time." 



" Why, Bro. Russell, don't you ever take 

 a vacation, for an hour or two, in Jul}-? " 



