The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-09-15
w. c. T. U. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. L. HOBBS.
Consistency.

SOnsisten(y.
We have IL schools, for which
was paid 100000 annually, and w
have 123 saloons which cost tn,
people every year 81 600, 900. II,
could not have state d the facts bet
ter; he might also have added thai
about the same ratio in the state anc
nation exists. In Ohio the saloon;
annually waste over ninety million:
Of the peoples money, and in the
nation over twelve hundred million:
Of the peoples money Is thus vast
ed, so that our city, state and natior
has fully ten times "a much money
wasted every year by the legalizeC
liquor traffic a it costs to keep vi
all our churches, both Protestant
and Catholic.
The facts are that the saloon is 8
creature of law. According to the
Bible, the decisions of our supreme
court, and the declarations of oul
churches, the liquor traffic for bev-
erage purposes has no moral or in
herent right to exist. Tax and IL
cense laws for the traffic give it a
legal existence, SO that when these
laws are conformed to, the liquor
seller can Haunt his license into the
face OF our churches and claim as
good a night to carry on his ruinou.
business "a has the grocer or dry
goods dealer to carry on his bust
ness. Without the protection OF
tax and license laws, every saloon
in the nation could be dealt with as
an outlaw; Low they cannot.
Our remedy il to vote every time
for the defeat Of all political parties
that legalize this ruinous traffic in
any form or at any price. No m IN
that votes with tax or license par
" has right to complain OF the
existence of the legalized saloon; he
gets just what he votes for. A man
that votes to pu, in power a party
TO the tax and license
system is quite inconsistent to get
up ant talk against what he voted
for. Every man that votes for tax
Or license party should defend the
tax and license or else quit that
way of voting; a man that votes
with party that does not represent
his honest convictions on this vital
question throws his vote away, even
though his party has million ma
Iority. No political party will ever
learn TO do right "a long as good
men support it in doing wrong. Ev-
ery liquor man in the nation con-
tends that the liquor traffic should
De legalized by tax or license laws
now every Christian who believes
a. do the liquor sellers on this vital
question should vote with the liquor
voters to uphold tax and license
parties. On the other hand, every
nan that believes that the Bible,
he L. ;. court and our churches
Ire right in contending fer the sup
preston OF the traffic, should vote
'nly for party committed to the
Impression of the liquor traffic
throughout the state snd nation.
The liquor men are wise enough to
hun any political party committed
o prohibition; now If Christians
nd good citizens in general who are
pposed to the liquor traffic will
hun all tax and license parties,
his question will soon be settled
nd settled right.
will close by propounding three
tatements which | should like to
ave our friend Major Baird, or any
ther man, controvert:
/. The selling of intoxicating
quors for beverage purposes is an
business.
?. All laws that legalize this
usiness By tax or license are i'm
loral laws.
3. To vote forany political party Z
lat enacts or upholds tax or license i
ws for the liquor traffic is an i'm. I
Ioral act. t
The first proposition involves both T
ie others, and ! defy any man i
to contradict them. b
JOHN DANNER.
anton, Ohio. l.
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