Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1915 — TEMPERANCE RALLY TUESDAY, MARCH 2 [ARTICLE]

TEMPERANCE RALLY TUESDAY, MARCH 2

Dr. Louis Albert Banks, Noted Evangelist and Lecturer, to Speak in Rensselaer. Dr. Louis Albert Banks, noted as an evangelist, lecturer, author and reformer," is to speak in sixty Indiana towns and citibs in the cause of temperance, coming under the auspices of the Anti-Saloon League, and Rensselaer Is to be favored with having him here for a lecture" on the evening of Tuesday, March 2nd. It is expected to make this a great rally of the temperance fbrees and all interested In the movement to wipe the liquor traffic entirely from the United States should come out to hear this fearless advocate of prohibition. He has been shot down by the infuriated saloonist and mobbed by rioters, but he has never relaxed his fight against the saloon and the traffic and manufacture of intoxicating liquors and the 'Presbyterian church should be crowded as it never was before to hear his address. The liquor interests are fighting hard for existence. 'Many of the powerful men who a few years ago dared not take a stand against it are now fearless for its abolishment. Let Rensselaer take a foremost step and give Dr. Banks the greatest audience he ever#had in a.city of this size.