The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-11-06
w. C T. T.U.COLUMN,
CONDUCTED By MRS. NJ. L. HOBBS.
Stewards Letter and The Outlook $ Reply

Editor I halanx:-'rhe Outlook
l. very promising name, as though
Il were a wide eyed inquirer alter
he truth. but il can not see to the
nd Of its nose
a specimen of it's answer Ia Mr.
5 .ewart's very sensible letter may
De seen in such statements as sell
ng vine or beer to "A man who
wishes TO purchase them does not
violate a primary law which govern
ment was instituted 10 protect.
Let the editors Of the Out
ny il and they can have a cha g.
to study it over, whether it l. pii
mary or secondary right, W.
they look out between their prison
bars. All men are under prohlbi-
ion until they get a suspension oi
1.-The law as respects themselves by
tet,i4g "A license, good for one year
only
i ne Quito, k says: "Chri-t did
not forbid the use Of wine; on The
contrary be drank 1t himself" Bu'
in Christs day there was 10 saloon
and there was no temperance socie
lty. There was no liquor trust npl
Prohibition party. There were n1
political parties seeking power by
catering to the baser elements. In
lChrist's time the people did no
have republic, and were not re
sronsible for a Christian citizen
vote. There were no licenses issueC
that that protected all kinds OF 1t
associate baser elements, ane
whisky was not in the world, anC
drunkenness stood nearly on pa
with gluttony. But the Ou,lool
cannot see all this difference--lt ha
an outlook for something else be
sides the truth.
Its plea il the same that we use'
to hear. The scriptures, it wa
claimed, did not condemn slavery
: but the modern world has cordemn
ed il and it is on the road TO com
plete abolition. Polygamy ais
claims that the scriptures even en-
dorse polygamy, and all that tn
Outlook claims for liquor can b
D equally claimed for both SLAYER
!. and polygamy.
The saloon keepers OF the natio
owe the Outlook three cheers and
tiger and schooner besides.
The Methodi- I church at least ha
spoken by the Holy Spirit, in say
ing "The liquor bus ness can neve
4 be licensed without sin" 1t doe
n rot prove that their words were nc
!, true because they acted like Gaia
phas, who spoke by the Holy Spirl
4 and acted the other way.
1t seems as perfectly impossibl
for a Republican to tell the trut
! about the prohibition issue as II
: for God to lie. They always run Q
gnto the temperance muddle-int
= the merely personal aspect OF n
2 case. with which the Prohlbltio
. party has no more TO do directl
! than the republican or the demo
cratic parties.
The Outlook hopes that Maine
Kansas and Iowa will soon return
: license-''like the dog to his vom
and the sow 10 her wallowing u u
mire"--and | can agree with 1t
this language. that IL would th'
they we're either hot or cold. b
ing luke warm1 spew them out.
II will be the great day for Y
/, Prohibition party when these sha'
,Iows OF pretense, that the Republ
ID can party is temperance part
nj are passed entirely away, aud II
Republican party wallows all ov
= with the democrats in the san
muck. and be no longer found to
the spotted beast but scarlet, al
mounted by a false church who
editors are apologists for the gre
lred dragon, making the silliest pr
tense to wisdom and fidelity
scripture. ). ,. Hugnes'