Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1918 — PROHIBITION STATE CANDIDATE SPEAKS HERE. [ARTICLE]

PROHIBITION STATE CANDIDATE SPEAKS HERE.

In the course of bis address here this Friday afternoon, Mr. Isaac H. Grisso>sthe Prohibition candidate for secretary of state, said: “The kaiser knows that our American soldiers will not be satisfied until they march over the Rhine, into Berlin, into Potsdam palace to place Columbia’s hand on the crown of Emepror William and throw it at the feet of Unde Sam. “Under the compelling passion of our patriotism we have no choice but to banish the Huns from Russia, Belgium, France and Italy. To help render this service for the freedom of the world, the kaiser's chief ally—the liquor traffic—must be banished from America. “The un-American beer saloon must die. It is Prussian in character. By its beastly, inhuman, fiendish savagry the standards of our fathers, the ideals of our seers and the safeguards of our liberty are being assaulted. The advocates of democracy must defend historic and fundamental ideals anew from any threatening danger. “The health of our economic life, the efficiency of our industrial life, the purity of our political life and the safety of our international life as well as the winning of the war, depends upon a united, efficient awakened and sober America.” Mr. Grisso also placed especial emphasis upon the election of legislators who are publicly pledged to strengthen the present prohibition law; ratify the Federal prohibition amendment and submit suffrage amendment to the state constitution for the voters to approve or disapprove in the 1920 election. He made it doubly clear that patriotic, Christian, hqme-loving, ‘dry’ voters should supporfMnly those candidates'standing upon the above platform.