The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-07-08
u. Q. 2. U. oOLUMW
CONDUCTED ny MRS. NJ. l.. HOBBS.
A Call to Duty.

That is tne question before the Ameri
can people to-day.
Not the drunkard. but the drunkar,
maker; not ,hc drunkard's s home, but tn
saloon. is the question that every one o
; us Is meeting, because we find out tha
the saloon is the boulder on the track
ana the reason why we do not succeed
: II the saloon is the thing in the way
then that must be the thing TO he struck
The next question is, where shall W
go TO strike il?
Now, shall we go TO the prayer meet
ing?
Well, the saloon is not in the PRAYER
meeting II it was, there are a good man,
men i'm this country that wouldn't fluid il
for they do not go themselves. Is il IN
the realm Of scientific instruction
Scarcely!
Is IL in the realm of the reformed
men's meetings!
No.
When we came 10 look carefully into
this question, we found out that the
saloon was in politics, leaning up sgains,
the solid bulwarks of state and national
law.
Talk about the saloon being moral
question!
There is not shred OF morality with
in million miles OF the saloon.
Ii is political inside aud political out
side; it is political upside and dow side (;
il 10 political on the Republican and on
the Democratic side, and 1t is political
clear through.
And any man whose religion is so
sublime, so ethereal, so thin, so heavenly,
that be cannot carry il where il is need
ed, and speak for home and country
there from the heights OF con onscience, the
heights OF prayer and the heights OF his
Christian living. he had better be gently
and sent TO heaven, for he
10 Of no use here.
Where is the saloon power of which
we complain and everybody complains !?
Does it lie 10 the number Of men en-
gagged in the business
Certainly not!
Does IL lie in the amount OF money in
vested?
Certainly not!
Where then is the power Of the saloon
to- day?
Dear friends, il lies in the wrong atti-
lude Of the government toward IL?
Wherever our flag floats to-day, it says
with the saloon tucked away nnder its
folds: "You can stay here by law, and
he United States of America holds for
twenty five dollars the golden key that
lnlocks the sluice-ways of death TO the
feet of our children
Men call ii revenue.
What is the cry Of our reform today.
The men and women stand on the
heights Of better thinking and they ring
down into the hearts OF our people the
Did cry:
"You cant make legally and govern
mentally right the thing that is morally
Already the conscientious believe al
ready the thoughtful pause to listen.
The hour il at the door when awaken
I'd citizenship and awakened conscience
shall elevate prohibition in state and
nation to the throne Of successful major
ties, and this evil will go down.
There is not thing possible to human.
ty but W hat this intelligent republic with
he aid Of God Almighty can do.
The morning light breaks over our
nilltops aud the hour Of our deliverancc
10 near.
What, then, Is our duty?
To stand in our places and do the
hing that God would have us do from
he heights OF conscience.
God doesn't need any political party,
,ut he does need men men! menl
Men too clean to compromise, too
trong to swerve. too noble to be badg-
red out Of their rights.
God doesn't need The Republican
,srty; lie doesn't need the Democratic
,arty; lie doesn't need the Prohibition
party; He needs men that will do Ills
will, and that is all that Is needed this
lour.
Father, that is your duty.
Blue eyes, gray eyes. brown eyes. so
ike your own or his mothers.
Read the gospel Of your political duty
rom your baby's eyes and ask the ques-
ion, as you stand amid the problems OF
o-dsy:
What Is my ballot worth TO me II 1t
will not shelter the head OF my own
lsrling?
What shelters the cradle will shelter
he republic.
What keeps your wife's heart from
breaking will keep other wives hearts
rom breaking; what Ia good for the
ZONE Is good for the universal brother.
lood Of this great land of ours.-t Mary
r. Lathrap.
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One of ClarksOn's Jokes.