The Jennings daily record., 1902-07-02

personal habits; but still being
law, q violation Of it leads to evil
and contempt for all law. Thus,
this attempt to control personal
habits tends to anarchy, and the
man who feels it r,ght I" vinlate
one law is led, inevitb'y into con-
tempo for laws in general.
On the other hand, as has been
frequently pointed out, the pro.
hibitlon theory, which would
force others 1" accept his dictutn
tends to impatience with tht. re-
straints OF law and u resort to
violence to carry out it's will.
Which only to be thoroughly con-
vinced that am right, as 70 the
Saturday evening that Mr..
Wood worth walked INTO one of
the blind tigers that infested oar
town. Being a duly sworn Of
fcer ne went in and called for Il
drink If whisky, and when the
bottle was set ou1 TO ll1m it 81, eX'
cited him that ne made iiis es
cape with the. bottle, l9ilnhing
that perhaps tile tiger would
follow him lr Jail. Bat alas. IL
place OF capturing the tiger he
went up the street shouting that
he had the tiger. Loading ilim
self with his six shooter he came
back down to seeif the !: german
III I.,y. f,f,t
tie. But, ala, the man hal
gone. and the most disgusting
and disgractuE scene to oar little
city Was the sh"I gau parade.
Fellow citizens, do you Call tins Il
just cause. Che ;ioove was in
'front.' OF the y! :f'arl,.iu hotel,
where commercial men from Va
riuus cities we're stopping think
ing that more than likely we were
on the verge OF q race War- They
began to ask q ues lions as To what
was nr, and on being Told what
was thc matter, each one made
his way back to the hotel with
something new for the book OF
| Qrunlne yarns.
In short, it degraded the en-.
tire com munlty and ali who came
within IT'S spheres. lJis an arti-
ticlli and not IL natural reU9Qy.
Muu wa, ruv in this worid with
the view ti .i,.EulOplgig ui,LnbooU.
Even oi oar tr>t parents, II Is Re
la'eA that evil as Wei rs good was
within their grasp; and IL l., only
| by having such d choice that
MANI. Oud can be developed. Pro
hi bition, wiser ia It's oWE rOncei1
than the CreutOr, Wuult. c.ange
all this, and forcibly remove
from man the possibility Of evil
1t is true chat if there were nc
water NC one would be drowned,
aud i, iiu fire no one would ever
be burlte.G: but who for Lne sake
of avoiding the evils OF C,roWnins
and burning would see. TO de
pri\e ulauiilnu OF water and tire;
But SuIn Is the underlying prln
clpie OF prohlCiLtun that Lo pie
| /
would prevent the use of it.
The following extract from the
Houston Post will show the re
suit Of fifteen years Of prohioi
ton in Massachusetts:
Massachusetts tried prohibition TO
fifteen years from 1855 to 1870, during
which she found the law vain. in]url
Uus, ana upon the testimony OF hel
governors, and best citiZens fatal
hurtful to the cause of temperance.
After fifteen years of earnest trial, she
also. repu ,iated the law, and when il
April 1889. u strenuous effort wa
made to again engraft prohibitiol
upon the constitution Of the state,
failed. The farming element threw it
weight with that Of the cities agains
the amendment. One town only IN tn
commonwealth gave it a maj ,rity.
The campaign was one Ot exception
al interest The terms and time OF tn
timht were dictated by he'prohibitiOu
, isl,. hey we ably led. and thei
cause was advocate d by hundreds .
speakers. They dtiu-eu thr, :,aate wit
! literature and brought luvo .. tton a
arm OF workers remarkable for 1t
} numbers. No method known to tn
poll ician was left untrled in the 81
forts to carry Prohibition.
AS elsewhere the prohi bitionis,
= tried to make it appear that allmora
: ity was on their ~i1e, all immoralit
Y opposed To them. This assumption {
= self-righteOusness failed in its pu
, pose.
u q The influential journals of the Stat
L ais to the unit against the ament
fr} ri
their mighty influence in behalf of pc
- sonul liberty. common sense and pra
y y tical temperance. Protiting by pa
Ii experience, the great papers Tough
It vlg0r- born OF conviction. The reh
inuS uanerS inineN hunGS with Il