Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-06-20
pRoms,rIoS PREACHED.
Major scott dave an Eloquent Lecture At the
W. c. r. U. Meeting. Last Evening.

Major Scott, one OF the most gifted aud
talented orators OF the day, lectured, last
night, In the Nj. E. church. He has been 10
the lecture held for fifteen years. He has
a national aud international reputation,
aud has worked with Neal Dow, John b.
Cough, Bishops Vincent, Foster aud Simp'
son, and many other illustrious char
acters.
Msjor Scott and wife will occupy the
pulpit Of Rev. H.. J. Hoover, Sunday, morn
ing and evening. A few Of the thoughts
OF his 10 stu 90, last night, are as follows:
Out Of sixty -seven counties In Pennsyl-
vania, ~forty-two voted for local option
which, at that time, was a long step to-
ward state prohibition, AS a result 70 per
cent. Of crime decreased, which so alarmed
the liquor dealers In regard to the whole
state that a committee was sent to inter-
view the legislature, which body and the
governor of the state, this committee gave
to understand that 1t would not be wise
to oppose them, saying the $1,000 liquor
dealers control three voters each, making
As, 900 votes In all, and some one will lose
his position, II our business is to BIS ahtag-
onizsd thus. Therefore, we demand q re-
peal Of your laws so obnoxious to us as
liquor men. Somehow, these men do hold
the balance of power, and have the power
also to use II TO their advantage always.
Relative to responsibility ''the people"
are very much like the little boy who said
TO his mothers: "Ma isn't 1t mean and
cruel to tie a tin can to a dog'stail?" Eyes,
my son. replied the mothsr, land hope
my son will never be guilty of doing any
thing so unkind." "No-o-o, l wouldn't,
ma. l only hold the dog"
High and low license are like the double
barrel shot guni When the boy or man
is ruined by the deadly fire from the saloon
it is impossible to tell from which barrel
the fatal shot issued the high or the low
license barrel.
Ours is g most benificent government to
license a business which will create ads
ease SO dire that 500, 1000 patients are fur
nished annually to the inebria.e asylums
to be cured.
A drinking man once approached the
speaker and said: do you believe in the
Bible?" to which he replied yves" Thcn
you believe the marriage at Cana took
place, and you remember Christ turned
water into wine on that occasion. Eyes,
and you may feel at liberty to drink al
the wine you want which has been made
of water" Everything is good in its place.
1t is perfectly proper for iron to be manu-
featured into Bessemer steel, to be used
in making useful articles; but not for the
purpose of being made into burglars tools.
You say public opinion is not sufficiently
advanced for this great question OF pro-
hibition, and therefore wan to wait awhile
until people become educated to 1t.
Ask the Methodists of to-day. Martin
Luther did not wait ON popular sentiment
before he nailed the ninety five theses to
the church door in Wittenberg, condemn
ing the sale of indulgences by the Domini-
can Tetzel.
Every Presbyterian will tell you that
John Knox was also in advance of public
sentiment-and so every great reformer
has gone on to victory regardless of that
slow coach, public sentiment.
Strike while the iron is hot is a good
idea, but Cromwell was in advance OF
that. His plan was to strike and make the
iron hot.
Let the voting strength Of the people
the 250, 200 licensed tigers from our
and every boy will have an OPP
portunity to 60 through life a free citizen.