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the ordinary ruts of fhe men Of his
cloth and says:
Born in the state of MAINE, / do
not believe that prohibition prohibits,
and / am further of the opinion that
under prohibition the results are even
( more disastrous than without il, since
the element of conceaIment is intro
duced, adding 10 the other evils that
of moral injury and degradation.
Moreover. the responsibility is person.
al to the drinker, and cannot be shift
cd upon laws or machinery Of govern
/ ment What, then, is To be done? |
. believe We must begin moral reform
even before the birth Of 2 human be-
/ ing, and help to develop such senti-
/ ment that it will come to be regarded
az a crime for man and woman to
| bring a child into this world out of
I the Infinite without endOwing it with
physical health such as to Il it for the |
struggle for existence. Whenever q !
child growing up becomes criminal in !
any way there must have been SOM e.
thing wrong about its physical system |
at the first. The child, too, must be |
properly trained, and, both at home
and at school, taught what it ought to
know concerning physical laws and
the forces of nature. Above all, they
must be drawn into tastes that are no.
bic and inspiring, to the end that they
may rise out of The merely animal
senses into what Is higher. Then we
must improve sanitary conditions
everything, in fact, that has a ten
dency to lower the tone Of life III our
great centres Of population. II all
the men and women who desire that
Boston should be less intemperate
were to unite their efforts, something
useful could be done, even through
the medium of law, by causing 10 be
enforced the laws already on the stat =
ute book and by aboIishing the low :
groggeries and standing drinks. lis
his drinking on the premises that is :
lt once the evil easiest to remedy and
he most serious in its results"
Again he says: q
Secondly: Although that progress a
nay seem slow, it is certain that there n
; progress, and that the world is h
rowing better year by year. The il
ext point is that law can touch the II
uestl0n Of temperance only Indirect al
7, and plays very small part in the ac
eveiopment Of that condition Of I'M CO
ianity toward which we look as our
teal. This overdependence on law is sa
De OF the vices of the age. Statute to
w remember, is not force or A ch
over; 1t never yet did anything; it ri
mpiy marks the high tide to which tn
our time the world has advanced. sh
axe examples: If there is q sttonr
lOilc sentiment against dueling. you ma
ed no law on the subject; If the Pr
IDIlc sentiment is in favor of the WI
actIce. the man who does not ac- IA
pit challenge is branded nv tho Tn
bic as d coward. Then all the bal
vs. on the statute book could never in
went dueIing. Juries will acquit. No
lSeS VIII commute or pardon, just ing
long as public sentiment is in favor
practices forbidden by the law.
ere the Old criminal laws of Eng /
Il effective in bringing about moral pie;
)rm? In the South, again, slavery one
abolished by force, but the moral bee
lits 81 slavery remained lust As tina
were before the war. It is moral is Il
'es, and those alone, that can touch meC
solve these great questious; it is con,
n moral forces that we must de- stitl
d for moral reform" Cur
Thirdly: Much is said Of the work. dire
OF the law of hered;ty, bat even surf
, important as it is, must be care. strO,
looked into, or we shall make So ease
5 mistakes. If it were true that by b
y man whose father or yraudfa- assis
was Incorporate necessarily has The
luehcy toward drunkenness. the in it!
a would by this time be one wild One
= There is really hopeful side that
IL law oi heredity, the fact being testil
there is a constant tendency to I
of vice-which is sim. Sol
disregard Of the laws of life-and tia
le inheritance Of qualities that
the observance Of those laws
statement that moderate drink. Inc
: responsible for drunkenness j. 'haI
'e' IL seems to me q travestv of ooiS
oral laws and moral influence to 'c'' a
nat any mar sets an example to 'ne IA
III which he never himself does Soid c
which his very practice OF drink OF the
.ocerate!y discourages and con. a. 'oi
: As 10 alcoholic liquors. they coLoa-
ever cease to exist. and viii a.. 'o4- 70
continue TO be used" preV'o
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