Blue-grass blade., 1890-11-01
HOW TO UNITE.
John g. WooIicy Gives Some Practical
suggestions ON the Matter.

John g. WooIicv Gives Some Practical
suggestions ON the Matter.
Henry Ward Beecher said. speaking of
our foreign population. when a lion
That's true. SO is this. when the sa-
loon power of this country swallows
every election. as it does, nineteen
twenticths of the Christian vote, that
Christian vote becomes saloon power"
If man wants to unite with enemies of
the saloon one thing is necdful-let him
be IN enemy of the saloon! The fact
seems to be that the enemies of the sa-
loon are united. While God is God
every man that is right is united to every
other man that is right. and the process
of getting right is one of separation"
having to do with God and self without
reference to union with any.
To my mind the main question about
union" is. What for: Just to be social
better friends: haven't time. Union
to let the saloon live for a royalty for
using the public conscience! I'd rather
be alone than with the world on such
basis. SIMON to hunt the saloon to death
now. I'm there. Come ON. everybody!
The principal matter is not to get a
crowd together, but for the average tenn
perance man to get himself together!
He is now II will-o'-the- wisp-luminous
but gaseous-and the more You see them
together the deeper You'll be in the
swamp. The woods are full of Just as
good temperance men as you" but too
many of them are full of nothing but
more or less inflammabie gas. 1t must
not be thought that | deny good inten
tons to the conplaisant temperance
man. Not at all. But if God tells me
to defend his cause, and another man to
betrty 1t for money. must stay apart
till God unites us.
know cMr placable friends say they
hate the salo' n (hatred varying from
$3.50 year to Is much quarter), but
cannot walk " it'll the commercial tray
elere toward Prohibition: orr faces are
looking different ways. think. hate
the saloon not moneys worth, but my
lifea worth. my homes worth, my hopes
worth. here and hereafter. am ont of
trade" and living on my interest in the
riches Of Gods grace in Jesus Christ
and by the blood of the Son of Col. I'll
traffic with no dram seller. lam prac.
teal very likely. but can't help it.
Coronation" in ''license" temperance
meeting sounds to me like this
All hail the power OF Jesus name.
Let angels PROSTATE fail;
Bring forth the royal diadem
And sell it
Union is not the principal thing, bu,
rightne>s. We ought to unite in prayer
for u baptism of common sense, so that
we would all see that our matter with
the saloon is II fight and not parade
We have too many drum majors and
too few mnskets, SO to speak. The cry
ing need of our reform. humanity speak
ing. is business sense. We have album
dance of what-by courtesy-wemay call
the salt Of the earth"-of a brackish
and earthly quality, TO he sure-but al
most no enterprise.
In downright strength of material
IN this bald travesty of free and Chris
;ian government one saloon keeper
counts as much as II whole church SO
cicty, pistor, people. sexton and under
raker.
Figures for that" There are approx.
,natcly aOo.0O0 drainsellers in this cou,i.
Try, and approximately 200 900 Christian
hurchr.-mid the saloon wins. David
b. Hill WAS siIGply wise child Of dark.
usss when he said he would rather have
he 'alupns on his side than the churches.
,ud it j. the same kind of wisdom that
pats S'nat"r Quay at the head Of his
parity aud ilirn-ts Senator Blair To its
foot.
What is 10 Ice done! Don't they call
thr"shing machines cparators?-UniOn
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