Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-07-09
FOR UPLIFTING HUMANITY.

FOR UPLIFTING HUMANITY.
Address Given by DIR. A. A. Whitfield BY
Request OF w. =. r. U. at soldiers' Home.
Published by Request.)
Continued from July 2.)
We ought also to put forth stronger
and better organized efforts to reach
our foreign population and enlist them
in temperance work. If they cannot
work with us see that they are pre-
pared to work by themselves.
Young people, especially young
women, should be alert on this subject.
Instead of SO many Browning or Emer-
son clubs, we ought to have more clubs
organized for the study of sociology
Women are fast learning to know their
value, but were it possible to reach a
stage where no woman of any nation
ality would trust herself and her hap
piness to the keeping of man who
was not a total abstainer. There need
not be single ballot cast to rid the
country of its worst blot, the saloon.
And as the needs of humanity are
many, unions should study all branch.
es relating to health, which would in
clude physical culture, dress, hygiene,
sanitary science, housekeeping as an
art, child training as science.
Passing on to our second point:
Failure to recognize what constitutes
personal liberty. 1t seems to be i'm
possible for some people to recognize
liberty is not license or that the most
perfect liberty exists where there is
the most complete observance of do
ing unto others as we would be done
by. My liberty to extend my fist stops
just short of your nose, yet there never
was a restrictive law proposed that
some one did not jump to the front
shouting, 20, you can't do that, its un-
constitutional. This is free country
and everybody has right to follow his
own pursuit of life, health and happi-
ness, utterly forgetting there can be
no freedom where everyone has license
to plunder, riot and murder
Citizens of civilized countries are re-
sponsible to four tribunals; the family,
the community, the state and the gov
ernment. Each one law unto itself;
each in turn responsible to the other.
A man may growl about his break
fast and the wife deliver curtain lee
lures in their own house and no one
! interfere, but let them disturb their
neighbors and it becomes a town mat
ter, to be settled in justice court. If
you enter my house and steal, you are
tried by the state; neither the town
nor your family can settle the matter
If you take one dollar bill and raise
it to ten you are amenable to the gov
ernment, and to it alone you must an
swer.
1t is only by the observance of the
laws framed for the good of TIE many
numbers can live together in peace.
We must be careful, each of the others
right, and no one has the Fright to make
himself not only nuisance, but a
menace. If a man is determined again
and again to put himself in a condition
in which he finds the whole road too
narrow for him, who insults everyone
with his leers, his jeers and profanity,
then his liberty has reached point of
license and interferes with the liberty
of SO who go about their business quiet
ly. If the man crazed with liquor
never passed beyond this point of be-
ing nuisance, laws restraining him in
the interest of the 80 would be in ac-
cord with liberty in its fullest sense
and wholly constitutional. And when
we consider the danger of arson, of as
sault, of murder, that is involved in
allowing this man such license to so
demesn himself, it need not be dis
cussed that it is not only perfectly in
accord with the freest constitution to
restrain him, permanently, if need be,
but it is wholly unconstitutional not
to do SO under government that is
''for the people,"
Lastly. Mistaken views regarding
the man who makes the saloon posi-
BILE. Volumes have been written con-
corning him. Scientists have learned
ly discussed him. Philanthropists
have labored for him, the thoughtless
have jeered him, and there has been a
vast amount of maudlin sympathy for
him that was altogether wasted.
I've read much on the subject aud
have had little opportunity for per-
sonal observation and have come to
this conclusion, that for all practical
purposes they can be divided into two
classes; the man who would keep sober
but cannot and the man who can keep
sober and will not. In the one case it
is moral defect; in the other crime