The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-01-05

Young, Jake, employe IL IL IL 20.
8 Young, N r, elk Mt Hood hotel.
Yates, w M, postmaster.
DIR. Adams Remedies for the Evils Of
Prohibition and the Saloons.
HOOP RIVER, Dec. 80. 1S90.-Editoi
GLACIER; Sickness in my family kept me
from writing my promised article on the
saloon question last week. Now, right
here let me say word for the benefit Of
such as read the outside of a paper to get
the latest local news, and who think the
editor either writes everything in his pa
per or indorses it. This is not true. An
editor of any paper worthy of the name
opens his columns to all writers of any
ability, no matter what side they take
on any of the questions which the public
seeks information on. Where a man
signs his name to an article he is the one
to be held responsible-nobody else is.
No one but simpleton will ever blame
an editor for publishing any well written
article, prose or poetry, touching on any
of the great moral or political questions
that are now voiced by the rumblings Of
internal fires or moral forces that are
cracking the crust of medieval supersti-
ton, and modern fanaticsm, and ele-
waiting the human race. l congratulate
the GLACIER, as does the intelligence OF
Hood River, as expressed by many who
have called on me, that your paper is
now, on the eve of 1900, showing signs of
becoming metropolitan journal. Hence
the great demand for the GLACIER by in
telligent readers.
But now to business. Before giving my
remedy for the saloon curse, let ME add a
few more of my objections to prohibition.
My first objection is that the temperate
use Of wine is nowhere condemned in the
Bible; God wasn't prohibitionist but
the very opposite. He saved Noah, the
most notorious drunkard of his time, in
the ark, while he made all the rest of
mankind, including the prohibitionists,
drink enough rainwater to kill them.
(Gen. tx, 2l.) David, "the man after
Gods own heart" wasn't prohibition
list. He made Uriah drink till he was
drunk. I'D Samuel, xi, l3.) Solomon,
the "wise man." wasn't prohibitionist
because he never said word against the
moderate use of wine. Christ wasn't
prohibitionist, for he made some 1870 gal
Ions of wine for wedding party already
"well drunken" To prove that this was
not the ''unfermented juice of the grape"
as prohibtionists allege, we oppose the
statement of those "well drunken" who
said this was the best wine they had
tasted. We also to thatoppose the state
ment of Luke, who says duke v, 80:
mo man having drunken old wine
straightway desireth new, for he saith
the old is better" Mans taste is the
same in every age. The saints in Pales-
tine wanted old wine, such as Christ
made-grape juice doesn't satisfy them
neither does it seem to go down with
communicates.
We oppose prohibition for the reason
that not one word can be found from
Genesis to the final amen in Revelation
denouncing the temperate use of wine or
anything else; only the excess. Pauls
letter to the Philippines ", lS) only eau
tions them not to be drunk with wine
wherein is excess. Did Paul, who or
dered Timothy to quit water and resort
to wine, tell the Ephesians to quit wine
and drink only water? With the illus
trious array of such names as God, Sol
omon, Christ, Paul, David and all the
accepted bright names of history, ancient
and modern, why should we hope the
little squad would ever bring in the mil
lennium who want to make men think
and do as they think is right, by law?
The pissant climbs to the top of corn
cob, sees about four inches beyond, and
imagines his ken of vision embraces the
universe. He finds fault with the laws
OF nature and proposes to reconstruct
things generally. The statesman, ALT
tie higher up, sees things differently.
Which shall make our laws, the ant or
the statesman? They are both but in
sects now, and the coming race will SO
decide. This is the reason why men Of
broad views have great deal of charity
for those who are struggling from the
ant hill up to still higher plane. Great
men never get mad at those who are
trying to block the wheels of progress.
Anger is only shown by the little fellows
who are packing straws to block the
wheels of an evolution that carries the
race upward instead of downward. Are
we to join the ranks of those who shout
for prohibition on paper before election
day, and then slip into the ballot-box a |
bit OF paper voting for an administration
that, according to Bro. Watson, is flood
ing this country with intoxicants, such |
as hard cider, wine, beer, whisky, &C.,
and thereby sending 100000 drunkards
per annum down below? (According to
my closest figures, make it only 81, lis;
put owing to my extreme age" and his
known accuracy in figures and state
ments, he may be correct, and accept
his tignres.) Why be ashamed of any
thing we do? Lincoln wasn't, when
ecanvassing Illinois with Judge Douglas.
The Judge charged him with selling
whisky when he clerked in a store. Lin
coin acknowledged the corn, didn't see
any great sin in it if he had, but told
the crowd that while l was handing
out the whisky l always noticed the
Judge was very attentive customer on
the outside OF the bar" There spoke the
soul OF agreat man. Nothing could have
exceeded the knock-down force of his re- {
ply. imagine its effect on the crowd if {
he had said, ut was whisky my son had i
put there, and my wife asked me to get 5
ne judges opinion as to whether he |
thought 1t would make good vinegar" v
The wine my son. left in the cellar II
our years ago, which Bro. Watson told f
ne ne made, must he there still, for | h
I'm credibly informed that more than b
me "frlend' has been sampling it for d
ears. :,
Paul, who advised Timothy to abjure "
Fater and resort to wine, was an advo-
ate OF temperance only-he made Felix m
remble when he reasoned on temper. h
nee, y not prohibition, Imagine, if YOU "
an, the Belshazzsr movement of his ii
nees II on the opening of court Paul n
ad stood up and read one-of Bro. Wat ce
ms dlatrlbes on prohibition, in which rs
elk could see neither "rhyme or rea- 5i
M Shall We force by law the people hi
copiorm to our ideas Of food, drink BY