The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-09-21

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BY REv. p. '. sruLrs..,
CONTINUED form last week.
The demand for more houees you
sss y an argument for prohibition,
and w are going % have II scms
|of these days. When Ne honelsas
|get togethsr IN seeing The robbery
|of the saloon in hs true lighe,
|"Prohibitioni Prohibidon!" vii!
|be the watchword and the demand
of the masses.
You talk wisely Il mean unwise.
Ivy Of "ovetprodnction. Well,
Ii doubt whsthsr there u much ovst-
production after Ill. For instance,
III know . furniture factory that has
|been "shut down" for sometime,
because il has more furniture than
lit oan sell just now; but in thet
same town arc enough rum-cursed,
saloon.Yobbed houses that need that
very furniture. But where - the
money? You cay in the Golfers OF
the saloon. Well said, indeed.
what docs the saloonkeeper do With
the money? He does not, he can
not, buy al tho furniture Of that
|factory-he can not use It in his
businees you SEQ, and therefore the
factory stands idle. But 1t the rum
Iwroueed victims had not been rob-
bed, they could buy and use i oil,
and the factory would run and fur
nish employment 70 some OF them
and others also. So with tho actor
lies, 90 with hundreds Of industries
lin this country.
Wasted millions! Misapplied
dollars 10 what drives US to the con.
ILLUSION that there is On awful
"over production" But It Is large
|ly an hallucination Of such - have
mot looked into the facts OF 1his
great question.
If We had today what We have
lsquandered in the saloon business
during the last ten years, We would
have about S11 GOO, 900, 900. This
: spent in furniture, shoes, clothing,
carpets and houses, among the poor
land haplese victims Of our rum
folly Is q nation would take up oil
: our "overproduction," and every
: factory would b Get in wotion,
! Then would We have confidence
! land real instead Of imaginary pros
, perity. Those facts and demandi
: are forecasts Of the inevitability o.
!. prohibition.
= The principles for which We CON
I. tend are righteous, and content
!. |ior prohibition on these grounds
|. and for the particular reason tina
( righteousness exalteth q nation
. and that sin is q reproach to an.
: people," II We expect to perpetn
ate our existence as nation, III
, tell you to-day that We must begin
4 Ito shake OF the lecches that Al
: lsapping the honor, sobriety ant
: virtue from the body polite Of thil
Z nation.
Remember nations do moi Idle 0
J. old age" History, however, is re
= plete With illustrations whore M
tons have died with corruption AMI
drunken, lecherous rot. So It VA
with tho Babylonish empire undo
Belshazzar. So With Rome. 8
today the decay Of Spain.
Had We not better take the warn
Sling? What this nation needs NOV
moro than high tariff or free trade
. moro than . gold standard Or fro
silver, OF expansion, 10 civic right
|eousness. And the place TO begil
l.|is with the individual voter-the in
dividual Christian ruler-who hold
1.-The franchise.
talk plainly to you, because
d love my country, becslss wan
" lite honor sustained and it, iherte
!. lperpetuated, and am assured ths
9 our only hope lies in the nshteonl
/. ness and In the enlightened COZ
ID scientiousness Of the individui
voter.
y. Did you ever hear OF resd Of
. nation becoming TOO sober, or hoz
Il est, OF Just, or good? II You d
4you have excelled my reading An
8Iobservation. - N
& Every one admits that there mul
\. DO reforms along come I'M
\ In this county very coon, Or v
/ shall reap % the whiIlwind for o.
! goddess sowing. Prohibition ofev
e . necessity 70. day ~ never b,
! fore. Let Us have Il at the hand
and BY The FRANCHISE Of the bstt,
Xl-I say the bsst-votess Of Il
Some wsl-meAning men -.
"Oh, veil yes-sishteousness IN
0Ival;0ikeA' 80 ~ efnhf. 6(Sf vou mr.,