New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-11-07
TRUTH AND LOGIC.

In discussing some time ago the de-
bate carried on in Congress by John In
gals and Dan Voorhees,, statesmen OF
opposed views, representing republican
and democratic principles respectively,
we criticized the latter representative
as hypocritical in his action.
We had in mind at the time his pub
lie career during the war, which after
closer examination proves about the on
" occasion for which Vorhees may be
censured.
AS non-partisan statesman, when
ever he was such, Voorhees, has gained
the merited reputation of being fair
opponent, logical adviser, and we
take this occasion, as an act of justice,
to quote the following, expressing his
views on a subject which is daily draw
ing greater attention, and which we
have considered as unjust and therefore
detrimental. Speaking on
Prohibitory Lars
VOORHEES, says
''No one questions the right of socie-
ty to adopt the best methods known to
experience for its protection, purifca-
tlon, and advancement. Ideny however,
in the most explicit and comprehensive
terms that the prohibition of wine or
spirituous and malt liquors was ever an
incident to civilization, or a feature of
Christianity. The devine author of our
religion, while in human form on earth,
used wine as beverage, and at least
on one occasion manufactured it for use
OF social gathering. Did Christ come
to teach immortality? Did his apostles
from his presence disseminate vice and
evil when they advised the use of wines?
Nor have the great ecclesiastics, who
have risen since, and have adorned
nearly 2OCO years of church history,
without respectto sect or creed, been at
variance on this subject with the savior
and his immediate followers. The ia
theirs of the old church of Rome have
taught temperance to their people, but
not prohibition.
Martin Luther, the great protestant
while in the work of reformation, drank
his wine and beer and thought it no sin;
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the divines called in council by King
James. who gave US the bible in it's
present revision, and it has been
preached in all lands now nearly 800
years, were strangers to the practices
as well as the doctrines of prohibition,
or even to the self-imposed restraints of
total abstinence. The Holy Scripture
and the history Of the church are alike
without warrant for the prohibitionists.
And, looking to the history of ciyiliza-
ton from the days of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob to the present hour, where
can nation be found of strength and
progress whose people could not be
trusted to regulate their personal daily
habits for themselves? Where have the
lawmakers been found? Where
have the discovery of sciences been most
brilliant9 Where has literature gathered
its richest renoWn? Where have the
OF liberties most prevailed?
Where has war achieved its grandest
results for the freedom Of mankind?
Never: in all the wide range Of human
history have any of these things hap
pened to people so weak in self-con-
troll, so infrm in their virtues, that in
matters OF mere appetite and tastes
they had to be placed under legal re-
straint!
Locke and Bacon and Sir Isaac New
ton, Shakespeare, Miller, Blackstone,
Washington, Jefferson and
DR.. Franklin were all productions of
that social freedom on which all human
greatness depends
Turkey is the only government on the
globe where prohibition is declared a
policy. What have the followers of
Mohamed to show for the cause Of civ
ilization? / would rather accept as
guides to good morals the German with
his beer, the Frenchman with his wine,
and the American with them all COM
bined, than the Turk with his opium
and his harems.'
The Minneapolis Tribune, always
wide-awake, sent out eleven special
trains over the leading railways to all
northwestern points, carrying the cleo
tion news this morning.
Worth Knowing.
Mr.. w. H. Morgan, merchant, Lake
City, Fla. was taken with severe Cold,
attended with a distressing Cough and
running into Consumption in its first
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