The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-24
PROHIBITION TRUTHS.

Opinions Of Leaders on the Greatest
Question Of the Day.
The rum hole must be closed, or the |
rum hole will enguf Christendom--Bish'l
op r. 8. Foster.
Intempcranoe has steadily decreased In |
the state sinos the first enactment OF tho
prohibitory lAw.-James q. Blaina
Nothing can be politically right that Is
morally wrong, and no necessity can ever
sanctify law that is contrary TO equity
Benjamin Rush, NJ d.
Oshkosh Signal Prohibition party
a. now organized gives to every Christian
a chance TO vote against the saloon with
out indorsing something they don't be-
lieve In
Il has been found by experience that
nothing can restrain the people from buy
ing these liquors but such laws az hinder
them from being sold.-Bishop Of Oxford
An 1749.
Whether or not the world would be vast
~ benefited by n total and final Danish
ment from Il of all Intoxicating drinks
| Abraham Lincoln
No man has a right to use his property
| in such a manner as shall injure the life
or property Of another, and the consent of
the party injured is no mitigation OF the
| offense Blackstone
The Corner Stone Ono Of the paradoxee
| Of the nineteenth century Is that the
| church and the saloon-two forces as op-
posite as heaven and hell-unite In har@
mony at the ballot box
God Ia going to count the votes. Vote
for Prohibition, and you viii be voting for
him, for order, for religion and for the
highest civilization. He will 500 every
ballot-Hon. John wanamaker.
A great many people don't like my
methods Of advocacy, because, as they
say, you arc not Prohibitionist. am q
Prohibitionist, and, further than that, ]
am an annihilationist-John b. Cough
What we want Is not bichloride Of gold
20 cure the drunkard, but some alembic Of
the Spirit to arrest the process OF drunk
ard making long before desperate men seei
| desperate reme,ilea-O II w nooior, ~. ~
The principle Of Prohibition seems Il
me to be the only safe and certain remed.
for the evils Of intemperance. This opin
ION has been strengthened and confirme'
by the hard labor of more than 20 years II
the temperance cause.-Father Mathew.
1t Is the duty Of government, nationa
and state to interfere to suppress tn
manufacture and sale of that which ha
proved In all Its history to be so utteri
destructive Of everything connected wit
the best institutions Of our country.
William T. Dodge.
, The user of alcoholic beverages come
! within the domain of moral influences
, the pledge, the temperance society, th
: persuasive plea, the convincing argument
; The trafficker In these beverages, bein
: oblivious to these influences or impel
. yious to their operation, Is outside thi
: domain and within that Of the law. Thu
D the forces of civil law must be set In mo
l ton toward him and toward his business
1 Mrs. J. Ellen Foster.
3 We must put the liquor traffic under %
cial ban, refusing to receive those cor
oerned In it as our equals. We must edit
cate our people to SO understand the ev
workings of the poison upon the huma
system that they may be intelligent In n
pudiating its use. We must secure effec
, I've prohibition legislation that Its openl
= offered temptations may not capture II
weak or thoughtless and destroy the VII
a TINS of habitual or hereditary appetite
Maroaret T. Winslow.