The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-08-12
SIN or LEGALIzATlON.
The Demand OF the Church is Deslruc
tiOn OF The Dram.Sb0p.

quor traffic. We will repeat that
demand over and over and over.
We will ring the changes on il
through all the ages and through all
the years, until there is not a legal
lied rumshop on American soil.
First of all, then, we must keep
before the people that liquor deal
er is a criminal-a criminal We
Will not let down our standard one
single inch for any man, no matter
II he is a protesting Christian and
votes for the legalization of he rum
t,ailic We say that liqour dealer
is a criminal If the deepest dye, and
that he de-erves place Only IN q
ieion's dock, in the ielon's and, il
need be, ON the .eion s gibbet.
We take our stand on The high
ground that was helG by the Epi5co-
pAcy If he Me, ,h0di church N that
gleai sddres- that ,ue5 have given 20
the General Conference. There is
Just one short sentence containing
seven words, but you know seven l.
a sacred number. That one SEN
tence is this: 1T can never be le-
galized without sin. " These are
the heights 10 which our Bishops
have led Us. They have led Us 10
this mountain height, where the
air is clear aud the sky il cl6udless.
There are no misls here. There is
no mingling Of light with darkness
here. That one short. crisp SEN
tence says: 1T CAN NEVER PIE
WITHOUT SIN.
Howis the drink traffic legalized?
You answer: 1t is legalzed by the
legislature. Then | say the legisla-
ture that legalizes the drink traffic is
sinner against God and against
men. If the statement made by
our Bishops is true, the man vi o
sits in the Legislature and votes Tor
the enactment OF license law is q
sinner against God and against NOR
ality.
The legislatures are made up
through the organization OF political
parties. Political parties make plat
forms. And say that if this state
ment be true, every political party
that in convention assembled makes
a platform that proposes TO legallze
the rum traffic, is sinner against
God.
And | carry the logic Of this argu-
ment Just little further. There IL
a legitimate conclusion to which we
must come, and from which there is
no escape. If our Bishops have told
US the truth thenwe must reach this
conclusion: Political parties are
made up Of individuals, and an indi-
vidual that votes a ticket that repre-
sents a party that legalizes the rum
trailic-that man is a sinner ! say
from this standpoint that the preach
ct who goes out today and stands in
favor Of license or regulation in any
form is not a worthy sou OF the Cos
pei.
Now, this is the logical conclusion
to be drawn from that one brief SEN
tence from the Episcopal address
| say, if that Episcopal address is
true, if the Bishops are right in their
utterance, every man-be he minis
ter or layman-who votes with
party that endorses license, Is A
SINNER That is the logic of
Bishops; that isn't MY logic.
Don't let any say that this is my
say-so. | say that this il the logic
OF the Bishops Of the Methodist
Episcopal church, iflanguage means
anything and on that platoon we
will stand and we will ring the
changes on that sentence Of seven
words-"it can never be legalized
without sim
We will agitate from that stand
point; and the agitatstion from that
standpoint il going TO produce a pro-
found disinrgration, and the gold OF
Prohibition is being separated from
the dross OF regulation, either by
taxation or license. You know that
the ore Is held together by the power
of cohesion, and you know that
what they do in order to separate
the gold from the dross is to inten-
sifv the heat-intensify il more and
more until the heat becomes sniff
cient to overcome the power OF CO.
hesion. and then the metal drops
out and there is separation be-
tween the dross and the metal.
Now, that is what we are going to
do. and are doing on this question.
We are intensifying the heat. We
will make it hotter and hotter for
the politicians Of this country, and
under this process Of agitation and