The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-12-06
w. CT. U. COLUMN N
WHAT Is A LICENSE?


LICENSE to an evil tends to make
the consciece blind, deaf, and dumb
Ito moral questions, which is equiv
alent to saying all manhood is gone.
In which case the man must have a
resurrection Of his conscience before
he can see or know his dnty on any
moral question Of alcoholic liquors.
A license to the liquor traffic
crushes all virtue and vitality out II
religion by bcnumbing and destroy
ing the conscience with the delusiohs
OF duplicity and cupidity.
A license Of an evil is the greatest
enemy Of religion, the antipodes OF
the demands Of an intelligent con
science, and both cannot exist in OF
be tolerated by the same person at
the same time.
A license with traitorous syco-
phancy, says, "Wait until all the
people require the law OF Prohibi-
tioa. else we cannot enforce IT.
A license, like boa constructor
covers its victims with the slime o
cupidity and duplicity, so that the,
can more easily be swallowed whole
and all the manhood and mora
sense are absorbed out of them.
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A license deludes the people will
the falIacy that no other restriction
Iof the liquor traffic is either neces
sary or possible.
j A license is subsidy to the brew
cries and distilleries, which help
to confirm and distribute thei
bonds, so as to ;, cure their perma
nent success through the persona
Interests Of the people.
A license, sanctioning and pro
tecting the liquor tIatiic, the pre-
tense Of restriction, is like the dev
quoting Scripture as an argumer
to Justify his internal work.
a license to justify liquor-sellin
Il could much more consistently just
iiifv other crimes in the communit
that are Of much less injury to II
people.
: A license is false flag of tru,
sent by the enemy Of the homes ar
Interests Of the people to cheat the
with bribe, as compromise Il
their treachery to save the saloon.
A license is a colossal swindle Z
moral credu,ity Of the people, whic
dior its specious fraud is only equa
( ed by its pretense Of restriction.
A license to alluring poisonol
beverages is opposed to all Just Ia
or equity, either human or divine.
" A license is a conspiracy of era
len, cowardly traitors, who, throuI
connivance with the appetites al
selfishness Of the people, prote
nd and perpetuate the saloon.
: A license is a fallacious meth
to cheat and delude the people wi
the pretense of restriction. To CO..
up the tiendish nature OF the liqu
traffic.
A license betrays labor, and pl
tects its most destructive enemy
the saloon.
4 license is a subterfuge for
perfidious. wicked seltishness
those whose interests blind tn
vision to its enormity.
A license both justities and gi,
monopoly for the sale OF an all'
ing, fascinating liquid that inflan
the passions and instigates neal
|all the CRIME and misery that I
world endures.
A license fee, to bribe the poel
|for their sanction Of the liquor tr
lic, finds its counterpart in the br
cry Of the people by buying tn
votes.
- A license il wicked, self
ee mockerv Of the tears and groans
agonized wives. mothers, fathe
us over the loss of husbands and SO
the Through alluring temptations
; IN high license, gilded saloons.
,ur
pss. A license, besides being a mon
the oily, is compact and pc init OF
TO Grafton bv the government topol
and kill its citizens with the sa
nav Ition Of law. for a fee, as an ex
iient to hoodwink and dclude
o people with the pretense OF rest
tion.
TIP A license is the crime OF Ju
- re-enacted for about the same
nd more or less), and includes
same elements Of moral trcach'
'alls the price Of blood.