I am for it because the liquor traffic is a mad dog, and hydrophobia is not mentioned in the preamble of the federal constitution as one of the purposes for which this government was organized.
I am for it because no honest nation can steal baby shoes and call it "revenue."
I am for it because no just nation can plant crime and punish the harvest.
I am for it because no civilized nation can run a tollgate on the road to destruction.
I am for it because no nation can guide its ship of state by the "dipper" and escape the whirlpool.
I am for national prohibition because I want this country to have a national defense that will defy the world.
I am for it because it is more within the scope of a republic's purpose to protect little children at home than big business abroad.
I am for it because if the separation of church and state is essential to the preservation of liberty, then the separation of saloon and state is essential to the preservation of national life.
I am for prohibition because it is the pity of human progress for the weak of human kind. The bread of freedom which sustains us was baked at the martyr's fire; and we must pay the martyr, as best we can, by saving those who cannot save themselves.
The wrong is the nation's, and the nation alone can right it.
Speed the day when the American mother can bend above the cradle of her boy, when she can lift her face to the flag, and say, "At last, thank God, he's safe!"