The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-09-14
wv. C. T. U. COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. L. HOBBS.


come public property and he must
not complain at public criticism.
Robert Denny quotes Elder Dam
iel X. Lucas as having said: 81 do
not 60 to the polls as a christian.
| do not vote as christian; / votel
as an American citizen" This isl
an unfortunate declaration, and is
equally as damaging to the christian
religion as it is to the cause of re-
form. The thought prominent isl
that the man credited as chris
titan can at some time or any
ltime before or after starting to-
the polls unhingc from his chris
tian character and "not vote as al
Ichristian. If this is not heresyl
|of the rankest kind and dodging|
Iof great moral issue, then al
standard Of moral ethics is worth
less. Can an individual lay
down and take up at will Chris
titan action? Is Christian walk and
conduct kind of go-easy-elastic-
do-as- -want-tO llfeI
j Can a christian christianity vote to
propagate and perpetuate an un-
tIchristian business? If the citizen
! can unchristianize himself to do one
: kind of mean thing and restore HIM
: self in spiritual purity at pleasure,
l|then may he violate the decalogue
will and vice versa. This is a
monstrous doctrine, and yet one
practically taught in the voting act
D at every election from municipal to
presidential.
4 Your ballot is a prayer for some
! ultimate thing, and the thing de-
d sired may be either good or bad.
i 1t is the motive behind the ballot
othat gives it force and character
elThe tongue and the ballot often
speak differently, but the latter,
: like figures, don't lie. Show me i
i YOU can a greater antithesis in NOR
,r|a,s than our professed christian ex
lelhibits when he votes the Republican
= or Democratic ticket. When yo'
g. have done this | will ask for on
,e more .sshow," and that is to sho'
,e me the difference between the Sun
ly|day drunkard makers ballot an
le your own. How could there be
MI for is he not your agent? Som
ago there was gathering Il
Of the "Christian Tenn
). perance Alliance. Well named
Ia and they resoluted grandly AM
e. truthfully, saying, ''saloons TO
he the sale Of intoxicating liquors as
lie beverage, is the greatest organize
le|foe OF the kingdom Of Christ, an
to running more young men in tn
lgIState Of Indiana than the Who'll
number Of the same class brougl
into the kingdom of God by all ou
churches combined. That's tru
and all right.
4 Then they made grand advance
be|and said, "We renounce allegianc
rvIto all organizations that are in a
lance with the saloon power, s
beIthat we will not follow or be led b
Them Coming from minister
heIelders and deacons, the temperate
m people felt that allegiance to" an
ssalliance with saloon power" ha
ldlbeen severed by all Of them; bl
alas, like the vows of the drunkart
ceItheir resolutions are stultified an
they are not only sled by the 81
x-Iloon power" but they are leader
~ lof it-such as have not renounce
an allegiance" with rum-controlle
mr. parties. "More young men ruined
ho bv the saloon demon than are save
no ssbv all our churches combined.
~ An awful holocaust to Bacchu'
~ IThe devil before christianity
-, 81 vote as an American citizen.
- Well, that sounds immense, b
!, more cavernous than otherwise.
did not know there was a standal
fixed for an American citizen. III
red-nosed, blear-eycd microbe-iill,
10 wonder, who nonchalantly sits sue
'he ing prehistoric pipe on beer k
beside a portal to legalizcd iniqult
No votes as an American citizen to
,an and the anomaly in the case is tn
the Sunday school superintende
,,,alvotes as he does. Along comes a
,ha other "Amcrican citizen" Rob'
Denny, for illustration. He vot'
a;r but the expression Of his ballot
,he m dramatically opposite that Of ]
~ ID. X. Lucas. Ii is spiritualiz
with holy fcrvor that it may h'
eliminate from the body polite G
Md rupting influences. As an Am
nj ican citizen he votes for the emb,
i simcnt in constitutional law for pr
,re- ciples good and pure, so pronounc
The from christian standpoint, and
,ev highest civil tribunal in the lar
His ballot is an earnest one for Il
II is an invocation TO God and m
c OIL fnr the removal of n curse. bliI