The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-12-14

refreshing the world and making tn,
earth glad.
In touching OH the prohibition
/ quest ion, Mr.. Benson said that TIL,
enemiSs Of temperance claimed that
/ prohibition was a failure; that even
/ If constitution amendment prohibit
ing he sale Of liquor in every State,
that the law would he violated. Oh
course it would be violated, as was
even the case with every law Of the
land to-day. But did any one have
the hardIhOod to any that there was
much nurder e. theft or any other
species Of crime gUing on rs there was
no law against them? 50 it was with
prohibition, while 1t min ght be vi
olated, the great effect 1t would have
in lessening the sale Of whiskey, and
thereby decreasing the number Of
drunknrds in the land, would be in
ealcHlable. A great number of poo
pie claimed that in order to make the
prohibition movement a success, We
would have to work public opinion mp
to that point that whisAEy selling
would b. univ ersally condemned.
Were il possible to work the people
up to that high point of morality,
statutory enactments against the liz
uar traffic would be unnecessary.
He was IN favor of working up pub
lie opinion against whisky sellers, as
they worked il up in the west against
horse thieves, that is, by taking them
out and hanging them, should they
violate the law after il WAS put in
the statute books. Aud still others
that a prohibition law would
deprive the citizen of his personal
liberty accorded to him by the Con
Atituticn IF tho United Statpg.
Some very knowing man in Indiana
had declared against prohibition,
stating that when it came to sneh a
pass that he could not eat what he
wanted, could not wear what he wan
ted that he would leave the country. !
At the same time this man knew, or |
should have known that he would |
have hocn arrested and fined or i'm
PriSoned If he killed game OIt Of sea
san, or caught fish out Of reason, and /
that If he had maEqueraded in the 1
streets dressed in his wifc's clothes,
hat he would have been forced to
answer to the law, The home that
depri ved a man of his
rights and liberties was
l lanatical one, and was not substan-
lated by logic or facts.
Tho lecturer continued, that he had
lecome so deeply interested in TEN
that he was willing To argue
he subject with saloon keepers-that
:, he was even anxious tS carry cut
certain line Of argument with them.
lie would like TO have the line ten
eet long, with one Gud eli ii tied
round the saloon-keepers neck and
he other thrown over the limb Of a
rec. lie would try and convince the
,arty with whom he was arguing
hat the whiskey traffic was wrong |
nj should not be continued. Should
10 fail to convince him of that fact
e would simply tighten the line Of
rgumnnt and that would be the last
fit. {
Al a convention Of liquor men in ,
'hicago, held last winter, it had been
,solvea that prohibition was a fail l
re. Still they had subscribed s75,- +
90 to carry the fight against the 4
-anaas prohibitory enactment TO the |
upreme Court, where that tribunal >.
al sustained the decision Of the low
court. They claimed that prohibi- 8
on was depopulating Kansas. True i
some respects it WAS. The peni- T
ntiary was almost empty; and in r
mpOria the Jail doors were wide =;
zen. Where one saloon man had -
Z Kansas enough good men had u
nved into the State, with their wives al
d children, to build a school house. &c
'rolonged applause. The speaker -
en- pursued the alc0ho Ollie vice into ,,
E church, stating that if his power
Is such as to enable him he would
ecp the last drop of wine, that con
ned alcohol from the communion
-pplause. table.
In showing the vast difference in
3 amount of crime existing in places of
ere whisky was soli wher, it WIS pro- "
,ited, ne cited to the town Of Greeley he
IL HI lllab l'AslCCs " iii a tNlfsAAA-
II Of 5000, and where no whisky gr'
9 sold, there was not prisoner in IS
jail; and in four years, 81 had cai
IA disbuYstcd among the poor, 80
lance Of 500 now being on hand
be devoted to charity when neces- ieO
Y. GG
The speaker in criticizing both the vii
yerful political PARTIES Of the nation kin
4 that the temperance cause could 49,.
1eCt r. sura assistance from either VIZ
1ile he had list faith in politicnl vel
ties @ Ia Aot done 40 with the TOW
,ple. The remedy from the wills loo
cures lay solely with them The Til
was not far off when no man :.
uld go as a representative Of the
pic to the legislature, who would Ief
e for the enactment Of any law, or
uld not vote for the repeal Of any
, for which the true Christian man
woman could not consistently pray
its maintenance and enforcement.
Local option was working wonders =
arkansas. In sixty eight counties !, &.
hat State no VIII sky WAS being '''''
|. seu
temperance people should not ter
discouraged because they were an,
he minority. He would rather -,
e been with Noah and the minor ~''
at the time Of the flood, than to nai
G been with the majority. John rec
slty, who went through England lial
a blaze Of glory, was in the minor ant
b. Was Martin Luther. and even -;
ist; our Savior, was prosecuted ''
died on the cross By the
lis Of the majority. But tie roco
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