Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
hol in pure liquors:


Prohibition refuses torecognize natu-
raj laws: hence while il has done some
good, it has done much harm. 1t is
based on the theory the use of all liquor
is wrong. This can not be lnaintained
by science nor the facts of living peo-
pie; hence laws badly conceived and
slackly executed, bring about immorali-
ty. AS matter of fact they cannot be
executed.
The abuse, or abstinance from liquors
is entirely an individual matter, and
will vary with ones education: hence
the temperance movement should be
taken away from its abnormal action in
law and have its natural play in the
ethical Improvement of society.
Edmund Burke well said, "Bad laws
are the worst sort of tyrany."
Prohibition is based on the theory
that it is needed TO protect "social
rights that is, that it is the absolute
social right of every member Of society
that every other member shall act pre-
cisely as he ought. There is ne viola
ton of liberty that such principle
would not justify.
The prohibitionists are fond of
quoting the bible. Let us quote lit
tie. Are not the bible injrmctions
against those who "tarry long at the
wine" not the temperate? against him
who "putteth the bottle to his neigh
bor's mouth and maketh him drunken
also;' not against abe proper use. 1t is
also veay pointed about "mixed" drinks.
"No drunkard shall inherit the king
domof heaven" not, no temperate user
shall inherit. Didn't st. Paul know
what he was talking about when he
said, "Use the things of this world us
not abusing them," and g Drink not
longer water, but use little wine mot
much wine for thy stomach's sake and
thine often iniirmities.'
Does not the bible hold up to shame
Noah for getting drunk and making an
unsightly exhibition Of himself; not for
the fact that he planted a vineyard?"
We believe that every passage of the
bible on this subject is against intempe-
rance, not against the proper use, and
this would seem to agree with reason.
writer of this article was prohibitions
ist?" SO he is; but prohibitionist of
the sale of adulterated liquors; not of
pure ones for health purposes. He
voted for the amendment in Iowa
with the distinct understanding on the
reading of Gov. Sherman's article in
| the North American Review, that ii
was not intended to be sumptuary law.
| God made no mistake when He made
saccharine fermentation possible, and
the men who oppose the proper use of
| liquor, in order to be consistent ought
to go back on soil that produces rye
| and corn, barley and hops, grapes and
blackberries, then go back on saccharinC
| fermentation, then go back on God.
| Again, the man who sells for the pur.
| pose OF making men drunk. is no worse
than the man who buys for the pur.
pose Of getting drunk.
A friend of mine, and very strict
Temperance physician, who studied his
profession in Paris. said. that in three
years he never saw but one drunken
man or person in the streets of that
city, and the papers spoke of that one
instance as u public Disgrace" yet
| that country has pure wine as free as
| water and more commonly drank. DR.
! Prince, editor of the Presbyterian sob
4 server" New York, Travelled all over
| Europe to study this very question, and
came home convinced that in country
/ of pure liquors there was very little
/ abuse of it. Drug store whisky, made
of rain water, capsicnm and strychnii
and tobacco juice, with a little higl
| wine is Il Very different thing. l am o
1 prohibitionist of that.
G. II. GopDAnDs