Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-08-27
Rev. Swan ON High License and Prohi-
bitiOn.

mans rambling diatribe In the Cresset
wherein he attempts TO show that sa-
loon keepers are more temperate than
prohibitionists; that Mr.. Belden is now
being censured like unto John the Bap-
tist and Christ; that a christian may
vote for any vile, inebriate If he be
republican,; aud that legalizing the sale
of intoxicants is less evil than to stop
its sale and manufacture. Now upon
all this beg to take issue.
A saloon keeper. everyone knows. is
engaged In the vilest business ON earth.
His trade is to make drunkards. He
ailures the youth and unsuspecting.
He upholds the worst blasphemy. He
delights to jeer at christians and every
thing pure and noble. His associates are
gamblers and the ragtags of creation.
He knows he is making murderers.
liars, thieves and paupers; that he is
building scaffolds and penitentiaries,
that he is breaking up peaceful homes,
and the very best blood Of the land fall
victims at his feet too frequently. And
Mr.. Swan says they are more temperate
than their accusers. l know the bible
speaks Of men dressed in goats cloth
ing. who in the last days 60 about de-
ceivlng and being deceived and il pos.
sible would deceive the very elect. l
am 10th to apply this citation to him,
for [ truly think he did not mean what
he wrote. A saloon keeper temperate!
A minister of the gospel writing such
thing! Shades of Moses! These paid
parasites writing in the interest Of the
republican party, making such an in-
vidious comparison as this! Hyperion
and Satyr, the king of the Titans and
the dwarf at his feet, the pyramid of
Egypt and the fly on its dome, the tow
ering eagle and the housing owl. none
of these trite SMILES show the i'm
measurable distance which separates
saloon keeper from h prohlbitlOnlst.
The former is SO degraded that he can
never know anything about the noble
sentiment of the latter. [ would rath
er, Mr.. Swan, that my right arm should
be paralyZed and that my tongue cleave
to the roof of my mouth than to be a
coadjutor for jointist.
Mr.. Belden is OF the popular side.
The great evil of this world is liquor
Over SO per cent. of crime flows from
its use. Enough money is squandered
every year in the U. S. to pay tie entire
expenses Of this government. Every
pauper could be furnished we'll equip
ped farm. So you see people drink and
this (s)wan says let them. Did Jchn
the Baptist identify himself with
the multitude? Did Christ? Did either
say take the greatest evil, the greatest
sin of that day and legaliZe it? Did
either at any time or at any place med
die with secular matters? Should
christian vote? [ think not. The scrip
lures speak of a little flock separated
from the world and the things of the
world. 1t enjoins christians to be in
the world but not of the world. They
are called aliens and strangers. They
are requested by Paul to submit to the
powers that be aud he further says: Il
am determined tc know nothing among
you but Christ and Hum cruclied.'
Christ says: MY kingdom is not of this
world" Satan is called the prince of
this world, and darkness covers the
earth and gross darkness the people.
But if a christian vote should it not 10
be to remove the greatest evil of the
age? The whisky trust furnishes slush
money to the republican party. Can
christian covenant with sinners? Can
he cast his pearls before swine? Dare
he affiliate with party corrupt and
venal as Satan himself? A christian
should not vote; but if he vote the pro-
hibitlOn ticket and should win, he has
great cause to rejoice.
In regard to high license, I, too, have
seen much that made my heart ache.
Go to Oklahoma where high license
! prevails and listen to the midnight
brawl, hear the Implo1s remarks, watch
the drunken rabble, see the utter de-
pravity, look at the wretched, misera-
BILE wife, brought to the lowest depths
of despair by drunken husband. Look
at that sad mother whose son revels all
night long, look at the bloated sots,
look at the lost souls through all eterni
| ty, end then tell me high license is all