Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-06-12

Aooo VI IlIH6 ITOm SOU 70 S5UU per
year, average. ......... $1,000
Injured credit and reputation. s.
Poor business management
through clouded brain and
lack of ambition. ......S-
Disgrace to family and friends. s.
Damage to health.
I'VE continue this week some ex
tracts from an address on prohibition
delivered at the University of Chicago
May "A, 1901, by John ]. Woolley. Tits
entitled The Manly Art of Self Re.
spect," and fills nearly three pages OF
the New Voice. Editor w. CT. U.
You are also only too familiar with
the teaching that what is called pubic
sentiment not only measures the posi-.
billties of moral progress by the nation
but also marks the practical limit of
moral character in the citizen. Even
in this University dare say you will
be counted a fanatic or a fool if you
hold yourself too high for membership
in either of the great political parties.
Some of you will accept the doc.
trine of the low-geared horse doctor of
philosophy in political science that if
you would serve your country as lead.
er of its thought you must above all
have votes. But bring to you a high.
er scheme; and it will be my very great
reward if one of you, because of this
meeting, shall say hereafter: Il will
not lie low, l will stretch up to my full
height; | will not keep dark; will let
my light shine; my mouth is too clean
for lie; my brain is too fine for beer:
my hand is too white to sign a license
or to vote for one who will; [ am too
good for political swine. herd; 1 am
too proud to patrol saloons and assess
prostitutes; do not have to have a
political career; do not have to have
votes; do have to have my own opin-
ions; l do have to honor my ewn mind;
l do have to obey my own conscience;
] am a MANI
THAT American Labor llmps on in
Its unequal yoke with Capital, laborng
and too heavily laden. is due to MANY
things, no doubt, but Is mainly due to
the saloon. Once let American Labor
stand erect and sober, clear-eyed as to
its rights, and clear headed as to the
use and value of its ballot, 1t will not
need any soft.handed politician who
never did days work in his life to see
fn If that M I oh
LET me say just in passing. that. no
protective tariff will ever build up the
chances of American Labor as rapidly
as protected saloon will tear them
down.
but government, you say, can never
feel parental love, nor undertake pa.
rental obligation. No, that is not true
enough. Government cannot love and
cherish its citizens; but listen! Gov.
eminent can protect the weak. That
is what it Is for. If it cannot or will
not do that, it ought to die, and the
sooner the better. / think no man is
called upon to risk his health or his life
or even to spend his money or his time
IN defense of country that can not or
will not protect the weak.
II am glad of the movement against
the Russian thistle on our western
farms, and of the Congressional anx.
iety as to the causes and the spread of
hog cholera. If ever go to Congress
and may, though there is no bright
prospect now in view-I pledge myself
to be friend to swine; but 1 differ
from the ordinary candidate in this,
that Will pledge myself to stand for
as much protection for the boys as for
the hogs.
'The pursuit of happiness! What
light aud airy phrase it is. to be sure!
How pleasantly 1t trips upon the
tongue.
But you know that within radius
OF one mile from where 1 stand, there
are hundreds of people as good as the
best of you, who without any fault
whatever of their own. are destitute
and beggared of any chance of happi.
ness at all, because saloonkeepers, like
sentinel devils on perdiSion's picket
line, pick off, sharpshooter fashion, ev-
cry joy that shows Its face at the door
of the drunkard's home.
II know no graver duty, 1 know no
more splendid privilege than for man
who calls himself son of God to speak
his Fathers sentiments in the ballot
boxes of his time and his country. We
believe in God, let US believe in our.
selves because we are the sons of God,
and wage relentless and ihterminable,
or else victorious war against this
scourge, this curse of all mankind and
if you men are afraid to grapple with
the subject, enfranchlse your women,
and you. go home and crawl under the
bed and let them have date with the
enemy. None of us can hope always
to be right, but any of us dare under.
take always to be true"
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