The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-03-18
TEMPERANCE DUT>
B. w. T. u

Extract from "a inPerance sermon /
recently preached by Rev-L.5 lake ] y. /
and PIinted in the Topeka Capital. |
We wish that all might read aud reflect. |
lie Says:
What course shall the honest. virtue !
loving. temperance people of Kansas |
pursue?
First: Practice temperance OuTselv- !
IS; il ought not 20 De necessary TO put ]
that in, but it will not do to leave it I
out. a man with the breath of topper 1
cannot preach prohibition very effect /
lively. No argument carries much (
weight unless enforced by example. /
Example Is argument. Tipping pro I
hibitiOnists, especially in official posi- |
tons, have brought the cause into dis I
repute.
Seeond;-Teach Temperance: The /
legal is not the only aspect Of this great |
question. we must educate; temper I
ance IS a religious duty; abstinence
from everything which is harmful to
the body and to the soul needs to be
taught in the home, and proclaimed
from every pulpit. The evil effects of
strong drink upon the physical system
need to be taught over and over in our
public schools, and the people, young
and old, com mitted to abstinence and
personal separation from this great
evil.
rhird-Talk temperance. 4 thing
can be talked up or down. Expose the
thin sOphlstries by which it is made TO
appear that the saloon Is a sign and
symvUI OF prosperity, the result and
the cause, alike, Of good times. EN-
pose the tremendous motives which
are back OF this crusade against prOhi-
hibition. Millions of dollars 20 enrich
the brewers and dealers. but to be col
| Iectcd, how and whence? From the
| shOeless feet and the shivering backs
of drunkard's children; from the pinch
/ ing toll and poverty OF the drUDkHrds
wife. Discuss the saloon; show it ups
/ il is "a hackneyed theme; you gFe tired
( of II; so are We all. Would that we
! might never have occasion To speak lie
word. But the other side keeps up the
agItatIOn; so must we,
Do you know that GLIB takers are
1 employed by the liquor league HL 80
a day and expenses 70 travel over Kan
. sas, with the Ostensible errand of hay
ing something to sell, bat really to sit
around stores and hotels and talk dow IL
prohibition and tell eXaggeratt d &c
counts of what they have seen of ats
failuTe2 1t 10 part of a shTewd plan 10
manufacture an adverse public senti-
ment. We must talk as earnestly on
the other side; not for two dollars and
hall a day, but for the love we have
for right and truth aud virtue ami
Christianity and to convince the honest
voters of this state more and more that
the policy which has been proven SO
advantageous to cur state in just the
proportion with which it has been car
ried Uut, is the policy which we need TO
continue and improve upon.
FOurth-VOte temperance, and by
that, mean, vote for honest men who
will comply in good faith with their
official Oaths. The poorest policy in the
world is so entrust the execution of a
law to its enemies. But that is what
has too often been done here in KANSAS
and constitutes the secret of the par
IiHI failure OF our temperance law he
: law must be enforced or repealed. But
. let us never help Il man into Office whC
: we have reason to believe VIII neglect
the execution Of the lam in order that
! the people may be glad to repeal 1t
I Thus, and thus only, can our freedom
from the saloon which we have Ichiev
d ed at the cost OfsO great struggle, be
. perpetuated.
This state Is but a small constituent
Of ouI great nation. GOd has greatly
z prOspered us; he has given us an honor
a able birth and history. lie mas given
j US a population unexcelled anywhere
e in virtue and intelligence. He hHs
made the conditions possible for us u
extirpate the saloon; many another
state would he glad If the same con,
ditiOus were possible to them, bUt they
s are not, and if for years 20 come they
Il are to be given over to the reign nj
a rum, why God pity them and hastei
d their deliveTance IN His own time.
o. But that is no reason why Lher,
should not be one spot ia the heart o.
I this land " here the saloon cannot en-
q ter; where the churches ard the schools
have the upper hand; where parents
;, can bring their boys to be edUcateI
away from the smell of whisksy, an,
. where the young men who seek GU
e niaidens are uncOntaninated with TIM
{, vile evil. God forbid that having conn
s so near to complete victory it should b,
any folly or neglect OF ours, be snatchet
e from our grasp, aud we be doomed again
il to the embrace of the foul destroyer.
RESOLUTIONS.