After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.