The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-11-17
w. CT. U. COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. L. HoBBs.


The President and Total Absiinen9e'
In the midst OF superhea'ed poll
tics il is difficult 10 separate iacts
from fancies. Some OF our conlem-
poraries cry out against the rece-.t
tour of the President, because ~
was made the occasion OF a carnival
OF vice and intemperance. But 20
j. everything OF public nature
Hence. the inference, have no pub
lie demons rati:n Of any kind
The absurdity of sucn "A CONCLUSION
is the best answer to the iallacy IN
voved in the premises. All such
talk is unworthy line.
But other allegations are NOR
serious. They are exceedingly
painfnl to us as MethodIsts. II
thew are true we are sorry that the
President j. Methodist. Walter
Clark telepraphs to an Indiana
daily:
"Galesburg. Ill, October 9th. -
The Presidents train will RENAL
until Saturday noon. Th' Pre-i-
tent today stopped at q nncy an
Peoria At Peor the Corn Carnl-
val j. in progress. The President
and MrS. Mex lnley took dinner
with J. B. Greenhut, the million
aire whisky operator
OF the same occurrence, the
Voice Lever bears witness. 7
fact that he was entertained in Gin
cinnati by wealthy and leading
brewer.
Personally these men may o
ideal hosts. But such intimate lei
lowship with them i almost max
ing them brewers-to-the-P President
and is an alliance wholly dlstasteiu
to millions Of anti-saloon citizens
The Methodist church Is not diS
posed to be exacting in its relations
with the President. 1t has 10 Ia
yo.s to ask. IL wishes him we'll
: II j. panied to find fault. But
+ such statements as this from tn
Voice-Lever are true, the Presiden
holds the traditions and rules OF IN
, church in confer mpt. Speaking o
the Chicago Carnival
rrhe writer looked in vain Tor
single window of den OF wee II
which the picture OF William Nc
Kinley, President of the Unite
States, did not appear The olce
Lever is perfectly well aware that
/. not fair to criticise the Presideu
for the mere fact that his plciur
appears in such a place. The pro
:. prietors of these dens could put tn
picture of the editor 1f this pape
there if they chose. But II i re-
pectfully submitted for the con~id
, Iteration of the reader, that whe
Pre- -ident Mckinley became Q
Friday, at Peoria, the guest Of III
Greenhut. the head of the Whisk
Trust of the United States, VIII
spent S2O,O in decorating h
: house for the event; when he. I'll
ting on Monday night at the bar
quet in the Auditorium at Chcags
7 in plain sight of two Of the editor
of this paper, allowed his glass
|, be filled, time after time. from tn
bottles of the wa ,ers, who, accor'
ed ing to the menu card, were dlstrii
Dn uting 'sauterne, sherry, 'claret
champagne, AMI liquors he
the meantime. emptying II a. oite
it is submitted that, when the'
things are considered, il is perfect
fair to say that P,esident Mchii
ley's picture fitted the windows
the hell holes that it adorned.
These things are told. not in
spirit Of gloating owe. the abomin
= tions at which any right-thinkII
a., al citizen ought to be disgusted an
~ Mortified, but to impress upon Y
public attention the lengths TO whl'
corrupt politicians Of the Repub
s. can party have gone and are gO.r
in the destruction Of the morals
n the people.-Western Christian A
lt- vaeate