The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-21

italy enforced. and because they be-
lieye that any paternal formyOf law IS |
usurpation of the constitutional |
rights of the people and an assump-
ton of guardianship or er the minority |
by the majority.
Likewise, a forced trespass upon the
rights or the people to the control OF
their appetites in the use of food and
drink which will lead to further en-
crOachments upon their taste in articles
of dress aRd religious liberty. Under
the plea or protecting the weakllng the
Incorporate enthusiast has joined
hands with the drunken Sot, and they
have become the dominant factors in
making the laws. The assumed pro-
tector and the weakened protected
are linked together 60 form the major
ity and become the governing force
and rulers of the conservative MI
nority. The experiment OF pre-
hibition was tried for more than
Thirty years at intervals IN the
state of Mass chusetts. 1t not only
failed alone to stop the sale OF liquor
but it proved failure to even lessen 1t
The multifari0us crimes that grew out
of it became so glaring it effected per
| feet revolution and change in legisla-
| ton and produced a high license law
that has remained undisturbed upon
the statute books for the past thirteen
years. Shall our state not profit by
| this lesson? ANY attempt to equallZe
| the human race in their moral status
| by force must become failure. To
| improve it by education and to make
mankind better acquainted with them
selves has, through all time, been one or
the noblest works presenting itself to
mortal thought. The world shaped,
peopied and set in motion by the hands
of the Almighty may, it is true, be i'm
perfect in its several parts. Can man
correct all this? Benevolent men and
women in every day and age from the
creation down to the present time have
felt duty bound to reconstruct and re-
form the world, and in many instances
without regard to the inevitable laws OF
nature. These self-constituted servants
! of mankind must not forget that the
standard of virtue in one age or one
country or state may never become the
guide for the reform of other ages or
other localities. In one age reforms
have been attempted through the in
strumentality of the spear and the
javelin, with inquisitions and
the sword. The Greeks in
their age seem to have been satisfied
with the world as it was fashioned by
the hand of Him that made it and
they sought their blessings accordingly
Proportion and the Olympic games II
!, their estimation constituted the virtue
and habits of the human race. De
bauchery, drunkenness, anger, revenge
and all the impetuous passions of the
soul were held by their moralists to bf
: means of promoting virtue. Those
: who could drink the most wine and
1 become the greatest gluttons became
: leaders of the people. Alexander the
3 Great sacrificed his life to TIT
: virtues of past age. The zealo
who hopes to redeem the worlC
4 by prohibitory legislation, and relieve
:. the suffeIings of countless thousands
of the ill-begotten sons and daughter
: of an ill-begotten paFentage, have bu
to turn over the leaves of history anC
: read the account of the fiery tempes
that DESTROYED the wicked cities of thu
plain, and the rocking to and fro o
4 the craggy summit of Mount Sinai
crowned with diadem of fire amids
the crashing of thunder peals, to cal
l the world to judgment, and the car
! mage of blood between Joshua and TIN
: judges. Then consider who is to be
l come the teachers and reformers of thu
}. human race. The prohibition party, o
!, God Almighty. Bow BACK.