The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-01-28
w. C. T. U. COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. M. l.. HOBBS.
A Few Of the Objections to the Prohi
bitiOn Party.
BY Tallie Morgan

Oh, get out! There's neither
sense nor argument in that
Can't is the cry of coward, and
we have no use for such in wal
against the saloon.
CAN'T TELL WHAT / SHALL EAT OR
DRINK.
Don't pretend to; but society can
tell you what you shall not sell.
You can't sell tainted meat, wear
cloth,s infected with smallpox, car
'ry revolver, wear your wife's
clothes, obstruct the sidewalk, use
indecent language, and great many
other prohibitions are on the statute
books against you. The saloon is
public institution, protected by law
and our fight is against the saloon,
as common enemy to society.
PRoHIBITIoN DOES NOT PROHIBIT.
So we have heard it remarked on
several occasions. "More liquor
sold in Maine and Kansas than un-
der license" Of course! That S
the reason probably the brewers and
distillers are spending millions OF
dollars to defeat prohibition! A
man with enough sense to keep out
OF the mud would know that if that
objection were true that every
saloonist and liquor lord would be
in favor Of prohibition.
BUT I KNOW LIQUOR is SOLD IN
MAINE.
We won't dispute that point for a
minute. There is strong prohibi-
ton law against stealing in Maine,
but we presume that all the thieves
are not outside Of that State.
There are open saloons in Port
land, Maine" Undoubtedly. but
that is not the fault Of the law nor
the people Of Maine, but of officers
elected to enforce that law. Who
are they? Republicans or Demo-
Gratis every time! When the Pro-
|hibition party gets into power in
Maine, you can bet your last sum
|mer straw hat that an open saloon
will not be found in the whole
State.
| BELIEVE IN HIGH LICENSE.
That's all right. If you believe
in license. high or low, you should
stay in either OF the old parties.
But don't come around and tell us
that high license is temperance leg
islation; better look for some one
who does not know that Lincoln is
dead, Or that the war is over, to play
that game on. All the brewers and
distillers of the country are enthusi-
astically in favor of high license,
and they ought TO know what is
good for their business. To say
that drunkenness is diminished by
high license is a high old lie with
out any sense to it.
I BELIEVE IN LOCAL OPTION.
That was the overwhelming SEN
timent down South "befo' de wah. "
They believed that Northern States
had no right to interfere with the
slave trade OF the South. But the
people Of the North diLl't think ex-
actlv that way, and gave local op-
ton in the traffic OF human beings
death blow right square between the
eyes: The Mormons would like
very much to settle polygamy on
The local option plan If you see
poisonous snake crawling through
The grass in your front yard right
toward your little child,
prohibition says: "Kill the snake"
but local option says: "Drive il
over to your neighbor's yardP
Local option is a ''leedle" too local
'or dealing with the whisky traffic in
his country.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS PASSED
ALL THE TEMPERANCE LEGIsLA-
TIoN OF THE COUNTRY.
Take a little advice! Don't you ,
Jay that to any one who has a pref
y fair education, for it will only
'how up your own ignorance on the
subject. The Republican party has {
passed some temperance laws, and
We are thankful for what the once {
grand old party has done for our
grandfather, but just now we art
mere interested in what it will and
,an do for our boy. That old sew
ng machine Of your wfe's may have
lone good service fifteen years ago;
,ut your wife is more interested at {
present in what the machine can do :
o-day. If it cannot do the work,
,ou ought to get her new one.
Ditto in regard to old worn-out po-
itical parties; help to build a new 8