The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-03
CRIMINAL AND

A WORSE CRIMINAL AND A
VILLIAN.'
This Is . strong and lincompromis-
ing doctrine from one ct Chicago's
great dailies. And means much for
the onward movement OF temperance
reform 1t is in the air and the press
with many other instrumeatalities is
swinging into line. The good citi-
zen IS not justified in aeaying the
civil Affairs of state to be managed by
bad men The strongest single factor
in bad politics is bad whiskey. The
right Of the church, therefore, to op-
pose and to overthrow the yillianous
tranlic is beyond question:
II the rum traffic would go out Of
business and set itself to work to re-
pair the horrible damage it has done,
it could not pay the debt 1t owes in a
thousand centuries. Chancellor James
r. Day, Syracuse University.
1beseech you therefore, brethern, by
the mercies Of God to us, to the church
to our country that you present your
body a living sacrifice, wholly fit for
inspection, unto God, which is a
duty, and be not adjusted to the out
line Of this world, but be ye a nom
conformist, protestant, irreconcilable,
by the enlargement Of your mind, so
as to exhibit, at elections as well as
elsewhere, what is the use of being a
Christian and a consecrated Christian.
John G. Woody.
An incident occurring in Chicago
demonstrates again the fallacy of the
old saying, Leave whiskey alone and
1t will leave you alone" A drunken
negro, reeling down one of the streets
ran against, and grossly insulted a
lady who was walking with her hus-
band. The husband resented the
negro's conduct and as result was
shot five times with probable fatal re-
suit. The incident is merely one of a
great number of similar occurrences in
the course Of a year, one Of the fruits
OF the saloon system that neither per-
sonal temperance, local option, saloon
substitutes or state control in any
way grapple with. 1t is simply one of
the inevitable results of the saloon
that will continue just so long as the
system in any shape of form continues
to exist.-The New Voice.
1.-THE encouragement of drunken
ness, for the sake of tho profit on the
sale Of drink is certainly one Of, the
most criminal methods Of assassina-
tion for money hitherto adopted by
the bravos Of any age or country. -
John Ruskin.
Rev. o. P. Emerson says: CATER
thirteen years's residence in the
Hawaiian Islands. have never wit
messed SO much drunkenness in the
ASAesAA0o sSS tO00ys OuICS OuI kOSS1Als
ment has taken possession the number
Of saloons reaches l42, the direct result
Of changing from the policy of prohi-
bitfon toregulation, for which our gov
ernment is responsible.
Voters do not forget that the liquor
traffic is the greatest evil in politics
today. Determine that you will cast
your vote for men who stand firmly
for the legal prohibition of this vile
traffic fraught with sorrow, crime
and ruin for every nation or individu-
al that allows tia foot-hold.
Jangling voices-from The New
Voice!
''The only way for the people Of
Maine to reach bottom in the liquor
troubles there is to repeal that pro-
law which is a hypocritical
law. Names no license law causes
lar more evil IN every way than a
license law ever could.-The Law
renee, Mass. Sun.