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Never Any Good From 8a loon, She Declares, WOULD UPROOT EVIL! This Is Greatest Fight in the Country's History. A crowd that practically filled the gluditorium of the First Methodist church Saturday night heard Mr. Leonora Lake speak for local option. Mrs. Lake was well up to the standard of the many brilliant speakers who have been heard here and her talk was greatly appreciated in that it came from a woman and one with twenty-six years of experience through traveling through the country. Her subject was “The Tree and Its Fruit.” Her text was taken from Mat thew, “Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire GREATER THAN ANY The speaker first told of the great American revolution when our fore fathers gave their lives to free them_ selves from the bondage and slavery of a tyrent king, of the Civil war when once more, men fought and killed each other, the just cauen finally winning out but that the campaign which De catur men go up against next Tues day is greater than any of these, the greatest fight of their lives, a fight to drive out the Mqnor evil and to rescue souls. Mar. Lake continued: “Many people will say, “What right have you in that Methodist camp” Methodist camp, they call it All I have to say is that if this io a Methodist camp, there are some Irish Catholica in it .We are used here in a cause ap proved by the Catholic church, which is shown by the fact that when the third Plenary Council of the Catholic church was held in Baltimore, it de clared that the liquor business was a dangerous and they advised Catholic men to get out of it. NO GOOD FRUIT. “] defy any saloon man or Nauor dealers in the state of Ilinois to get right up here on this platform and show me a good fruit that ever came off of that tree, the liquor business, I will take them with me commencing down in Egypt, the southern portion of your state, going to Chester, then toe Danville, Lincoln, Floomington, Pon tiac, Joliet, Jacksonville, Geneva, and we'll see the evil fruits of their tree s at the last convention of Catholic Total Abstinence society held in Chi cago, Judge Taylor addressed the au dience. He told of 16000 young men and boys that he had sentenced Into these Institutions and 93 per cent of them came from families of drinking people. The matron at the Harrison Avenue street station, addressing the Woman's Christian Temperance union, said that of 12,000 women and young girls brought in there in the year prior to that, that practically all had been put there by the Iquar traffic. CAN'T BLAME SON. “No father, no matter what he may be, wants to see his gon degenerate in to a drinker and a drunkard, yet he votes to bring these dens of vide back into your city Let me assuro the man that votes this way that he should have nothing to say when his gon inhabits one of these places of vice and be comes a degenerate Don't say any thing, for your son will come around to you and say, “Father, if you don't want me to drink, to roaf in the saloon, then why did you vote to put it here? ‘Many of you here used your axes two years ago on this area of evil and are preparing to do the same Tues day and I say, “Don’t stop until you have not only hewn down the tree and cast it into the fire, don't stop with St. Matthews’ hewing it down, but dig up the rooters and cast them into the fire, too.” Mr. Lake talked for an hour along this one and during the speech often had to wait until the applause ceased. She was Introduced by Attorney W. J Carey, a close friend of Mrs Lake. Mr Carey made a short talk introduc ing Mrs Lake At the close of the meeting Mr Thatcher, the soloist, pleased the audience with one of his well known songs
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Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois, US
Sun, Apr 03, 1910
Page 25
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