The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-07-05
w. CT. U. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. l.. HOBBS.
From Patriot Phalanx.

mo man putteth new wine into
old bottles; new wine must be put
into new bottles. Jesus.
The truth of this declaration OF
Jesus has since been verified by al
most two thousand years Of history.
II may seem almost paradoxical for
Jesus to teach this fundamental
truth and still preach to the Jews !;
but it should be remembered that
the Jewish commonwealth was his
missionary field. He came not but
to the Jewish nation, and it was as
truly his missionary field as was
the Roman Catholic church that Of
Luther in the 18th century.
1t is fact, worthy Of due consid-
eration, that the missionary field of
all reforms of moral or religious
character is the organized church Of
their day; but tie church, as an or
ganization, never precipitates re
form. Notwithstanding the new
wine principle, the Jewish church
was the field out of which materials
were gathered for the new bottle to
hold the new wine; and christianity
was established, not in the Jewish
church, but out of material largely
taken from il.
During the dark ages christianity
waned, and almost all that was
called Christian was contained in the
Catholic church, when in the 10th
century, Martin Luther, himself a
Roman Catholic, appeared on the
stage and undertook to inject into
that church the 'new wine" of
Professionalism but after 3 / years of
failure, after his trial at Worms,
1921, the new bottle in which the
new wine of Professionalism was to
be put was moulded at the Diet of
Augsburg, in 1866, and Protestant
ism was established and royalty
recognized---n in the Romish
church but out OF it.
Later on, George Fox undertook
to inject the wine of Quakerism in
to the church of England, but
failed; and little later tho Wesleys
failed to inject the Methodist wine,
and Quakerism and Methodism
were established-not in the church
of England but out of it.
We may pass over few hundred
years, to time within the memory
of many who now live, when the
Anti-Slavery people Of this country
undertook to inject the wine OF free
dom into the old Whig party
about the thirties and the forties,
but after persistent efforts for more
than a generation the old Whig bot
tie shared the fate OF the brazen SER
pent under King Hezekiah, and the
new wine Of freedom had to have a
new bottle-the Republican party.
And now we have the Anti-Sa
loon League, in the face Of the dec
laration of Jesus and near two thou
sand years of history, trying 1,
prove the new principle false, and to
inject the new wine Of saloon de-
struction into party whose very
existence depends on the friendship
Of the greatest liquor combination
known to civilization.
The League, if | understand it,
does not need any but the two old
parties in which to operate. Under
the policy Of these parties the liq-
uor Interest or system have in the
last thirty years outgrown our pop
ulation four hundred per cent.
History does not point to pres
ident who has made himself more
solid with the liquor power Of the
United States than has William Nc
Kinley, and the Republican party
has never had a president who was
more idclized than VIM. Mckinley. !
Taking his canteen policy, his en-
by the president Of the
whisky trust at Peoria, and at Gin
cinnati with the brewers, AM his
conduct at the Chicago tal quet, a, 4
then to be idolized by the Repub-
lican party, certainly puts the party
in close touch with the liquor pow
err; and then for the Anti Saloon
League to ask no better party to de-
stroy the saloon than this same par
ty, presents a question | confess
am unable to understand from the
that the League is wish
ing for the destruction Of the saloon.
II there was no political party op
posed to the saloon ii might with
do for the Anti Saloon
League to go to the primary Of a
whisky party and fight for "good
man" in that party, and when fail
ing, vote at the election the ticket
Of that party, bat for prohibition
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