The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-06
The war ON whisky.

nat we are opposed 10 drunkenness.
lie writes strongly, graphically and
Interestingly, but he has yet to learn
hat newspaper and newspaper
onductor are but integral parts of
They have both per-
ect right to seek by legitimate
means to stamp the impress of their
'wn views upon the public, but they
ave no right to force themselves up
IN the people, to say, thou shalt, thou
halt not. We do not drink. We
.dvise people, and especially, young
'eople, against forming the habit. We
hink it would be far better If all the
,eoplo would refuse to drink or deal
n ardent spirits. But our observation,
s that some excellent people, some
really patriotic citizens, aye, some
excellent christians both sell and
drink whisky. We are not the
keeper of their consciences. If they
see their way clear themselves, we
are not disposed to call them to book,
as the Advance does us. 1t is this
very ex remeness of view, this very
intolerance and bigotry-of which
our friend has sufficient supply, il
seems-which retards the up-growth
of the temperance cause. Oh! that
bigotry and intolerance were ban
| saLAl tho Land EgnnaaallNf
where they are brought to the sup
port of the cause of temperance. /
they were, we would see more prog
ress made in one year than we do
now in ten.
Ours is not the business to max
law. II is simply TO obey and t.
teach others to obey. If we lived il
China we should certainly not or
pose single-handed and alone the pow
err OF the empire when its edicts re
quircd the drowning of the babie'
We might win the martyrs crown,
is true, and live both in song and stor
forever. but what good would all thi
do the babies? They would die all til
same and their death would not lose
single pang of its bitterness because c
our marty rdom. So it is, Bro. Gran
fill, with whisky. We may refuse {
advertise bottled beer, but bottle
beer will be sold, all the same. Gu
refusal to advertise will not cut o
the sale of a single bottle, and the rev
enue we receive from this SQUIRE
helps us to prolong our strnggl
against drunkenness, immortality an
unlawfulness. 1t defects part of tn
power behind beer to very goo
purpose; and this fact is so plain tina
even our delightful extremist. and NJ
conscious fanatic, must see 1t in tint
When we ran newspaper in Cory
ell VIC held up the mirror to passin
events and at the same time cam
down on the crime of murder as ofte
aud as heavily as ever the Advanc
has done. Bro. Cranlll must stick I
the text and not go of after murde
aud then say that "a journal which Ina
not the courage to speak its sent
mcnts &c" There is true courage
aud fool-hardiness. True courag
fights when there is Twin
chance to win. Fool-hardine'
fights when it knows it has not
sjugle leg to stand Oh or the ghost
chance to win. II may be a goo
thing TO dry up the Mississippi rive
but none but fool would attempt I
dip IL dry with tin cup. "The Al
vance had rather die advocating tn
right than live by perpetrating
wrong" That is noble sentimel
aud beautifully expressed, but W
deny that it is called upon to do either
1t is easy enough to say that til
editor "would'nt steal even if it wer
lawful" because il was never Lawful
under any ear thly or divine enact
ment, to steal. Cranfill is a sophis'
but he is very fresh and interesting
one, all the same and we admire hin
for his plomb, no less than for hi
hard headed sincerity.
II the Advance denies all right
denies that the law can confer
right, and claims that right Is only thu
function of the church alone, or the
temperance society, then of cours'
oihing more is to he said. The ar
gument is closed. But this Is a re
public. Ii is made up of infidels ant
skeptics as well as If christians ano
believers, of men who drink and
think it no sin, as well as those who
do not. These all have rights under
the laws, laws founded upon the
sacred scriptures, and as we have not
been appointed the keeper of our
neighbor's conscience, we leave him
to fix the moral phaze ofthe question
with the higher powers, but we are
content, aud only content when we
are inside Of law and .squaring our
acis under the broad @gis Of its
protection. We bow to the Advances
estimate of our yertebra, but we say
Il modestly, but with entire conf
fence, that we are very glad that IL
sn't rigid enough TO induce us to fly
u the face OF the law, or to Induce us
o bring discredit upon the sacred
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