Jack Watson War
speaker
512 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Jack Watson War’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The friends of the rum traffic have banded together, annually issue their circulars, raise fabulous sums of money to advance their interests, and by grips, passwords, signs and stratagems set at defiance public morals.
Let us confront them with organizations just as secret, and if need be, with grips and passwords and signs maintain our position.
There is no need that our philanthropic societies tell all their plans.
I am in favour of all lawful strategy in the carrying on of this conflict.
I wish to God we could lay under the wine casks a train which, once ignited, would shake the earth with the explosion of this monstrous iniquity.
Again, we will try the power of the pledge.
There are thousands of men who have been saved by putting their names to such a document.
I know it is laughed at, but there are men who, having once promised to do a thing, do it.
Some have broken the pledge, yes.
They were liars, but all men are not liars.
I do not say that it is the duty of all persons to make such signature, but I do say that it will be the salvation of many of you.
The glorious work of Theobald Matthew can never be estimated.
At his hand four millions of people took the pledge, including eight prelates, and seven hundred of the Roman Catholic clergy.
A multitude of them were faithful.
Dr Justin Edwards said that ten thousand drunkards had been permanently reformed in five years.
Through the great Washingtonian movement in Ohio, sixty thousand took the pledge.
In Pennsylvania, twenty nine thousand.
In Kentucky, thirty thousand.
And multitudes in all parts of that land.
Many of these had been habitual drunkards.
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