You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday September 29, 1914
From The Labor World: Advertisement Calls for "Saloonless Nation by 1920"
From The Labor World of September 26, 1914
An advertisement in the most recent issue of
The Labor World calls for a "Saloonless Nation by 1920," and calls for Minnesota voters to consider the monetary cost incurred by the city of Duluth due to the drunkenness of many of its citizens. According to the Duluth Christian Endeavor Union, "The people take care of the saloon's victims, the brewers don't."
"The Cost of the Saloon in Money" appears to be a theme among temperance speakers these days. From the September 26th issue of The Fort Wayne Sentinel (Indiana), we find this notice of a speech on that subject:
West Jefferson Street Church of Christ.
...At 11 o'clock, worship and address by Miss Christine Tinling, of London, national lecturer of the Women's Christian Temperance union. Miss Tinling came to Fort Wayne from the dry campaign in Virginia. She has been lecturing before the schools of the city and county...At 7:30 Rev. O. E. Tomes will give the first of a series of addresses on the theme, "The Cost of the Saloon," For the first address the subject will be, "The Cost of the Saloon in Money."...
Readers of
Hellraisers will
remember that Mother Jones does not have a very high opinion of temperance or of the women who involve themselves in the temperance movement. Last May, not long after the Ludlow Massacre, she made this statement during a speech in New York City on behalf of the Colorado coalfield strikers and their families:
We are appealing to the mothers of the race, for no nation is ever greater than its mothers; and no man is more humane than his mother. If there were not among the women so much talk of temperance and foreign missionaries, if we did missionary work at home and let other nations do theirs, these conditions of which I speak would have been changed long since. The women of Colorado have had the ballot twenty-one years and yet see the horrible happenings that they have permitted in their State. It is because they have busied themselves too much with social settlements and other such things that are given to the industrial class to satisfy them and not with the real things in life about them.
She further advised the labor movement:
Organized labor should organize its women along industrial lines. Politics is only the servant of industry. The plutocrats have organized their women. They keep them busy with suffrage and prohibition and charity.
From yesterday's Chicago Daily Tribune:
"DRYS" LINE UP FOR BIG BATTLE
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"Flying Squadron" to Start Nation-Wide Campaign for Prohibition.
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ALL PARTIES GET BUSY.
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With the opening of the senatorial and state campaign all along the line this week Illinois also is to be given national prominence in the firing of the first guns against demon rum by the newly combined dry forces under the national prohibition propaganda.
The nation-wide "flying squadron" itinerary, by which it is aimed to bring together all the various organizations now opposing the liquor forces, is to start at Peoria next Wednesday, where three days of speechmaking are to be devoted to the big distillery town.
Swing Around Country Planned.
Oliver W. Stewart, former member of the legislature, and Dr. Wilbur F. Sheridan, general secretary of the Epworth League of America, are to represent Illinois on the "flying squadron." After opening the campaign at Peoria a swing around the entire country will be made, winding up in the spring with a demonstration in Chicago.
The purpose of the movement is to get all the organizations working in harmony for a combined attack on the next congress in behalf of a national prohibition statute...
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[photograph added]
SOURCES
The Fort Wayne Sentinel
(Fort Wayne, Indiana)
-of Sept 26, 1914
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Autobiography of Mother Jones
-ed by Mary Field Parton
Charles H. Kerr & Company, Chicago, 1925
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/...
CHAPTER XXII "YOU DON'T NEED A VOTE TO RAISE HELL"
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/...
Chicago Daily Tribune
(Chicago, Illinois)
-of Sept 28, 1914
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGES
Temperance ad, Labor World, Sept 26, 1914
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Mother Jones
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/...
Flying Squadron Prohibition Button
http://www.oldpoliticals.com/...
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