The Brookhaven leader., 1884-09-18
IN Cant Stomach
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{ che past before Them, thai intelli |
,ent men can be found who will
'ublicly champion a. continuation
.Eehe hqnor traffic ia county and
State, st likes rs as something ~
astonishing and remarkable as THAT
ncn will set themselves up as pro
Chalmers against Almighty God and
His holy religion. in word, they
seem To ms 10 sustain about the
same relation. to the wcll-heing Of
the social and moral world 80 Is
sus aimed by Tenn Paine and Bob
Inggrsoll TO the Bibis religion. II
the very nature Of the case. The con-
flict il as marked and irfee3ncilable
as right on the one side and wrong
on the other can make it. This is
our view. 1t Is therefore, with no
small degree of curiosity that we
await to hear tomorrow whet the
gentlemen who arc to represent His
Majesty King Alcohol. shall have
10 offer as sufficient reason why
the people of Lincoln county should
longer submit to his CALLING and
tyraunical rule. Our interest and
curiosity are all the more excited
because the ladies, and the children,
and the boys are invited TO this
feast Of reason To be furnished by
the chosen apostles nf the fiery King.
What will they have, IN the face Of
past and every day experience to
offer to the women and children
there assembled-what? The natural
enmity between women and whisky
between the saloon and the en-
dearing ties OF home--is as broad,
ami deep, and eternal as that be
tween virtue and vice, honor and
dislonur, Heaven and Hell. They
will address women and children
of Lincoln county whose lives have
been pinchea by The poverty whisky
wrought, who have felt lis rude and
cruel touch, who have known the
grief, alienation and neglect which
it imposes end their testimony
n voiceless eloquencs, will be there
to contradict aud cover them with
confusion.
The gentlemen will doubtless
contend that whisky Is necessary
evil, that Prohibition is failure
and that the only resort is mora
suasion.' 1t will occur, however
20 the thoughtful listener Just here
that the class Of persons who, as :
truie, contend strongest agains
"Iree! suasi3a" most 10 favor o
mora! suasion,' af ali people il tn
@orla exercise the least Of the latte
in every dar life, either by pre-
! copt or example; while Prohibition
| lists favor the working of the tw'
togethe r--noit!.er to tie neglect Q
tho ether.
AS to failures, the license system
Is the most stupcndous failure 0
civilization. it has been tried il
England over four hundred years
and in this country over Two hun
dred It's humaD victims are nun
bered during that time by millions
and its cost Of money by billions
Prohibition Of the liquor traffic i
not forty years old, and only. on IL
Sth Of September, the people O
! III aine, the first State in the Uniol
ito test IL, r1tided their cXporienc
by having Prohibition engrafteA o.
their constitution by an overwhein
ing maj ority. II has not proved
failure but f. blessing in this State
though tried as yet only to limited
degree, aud this will nc shown b,
tie Prohibition speakers on smell
testimony as that found on 6rs
page Of today's paper from SEubu
Is.
Though they are about the ables
on that side, the Anti speakers vii
be mere pitied thar enyiod. Per
haps VIC shouldn't anticipate, hu
We are nevertheless compelled tt
conclude that abont the only thin.
they will prove to the satisfaction
of their hearers will be that They
possess what the Koscius!>n STA,
90 apply terms in another place, "a
giant stomach for enormities."
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