The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-10-14
w. C.. T. u. COLUMN.
THE SLAUGHTERED" SALOON.
Charles A. crsse Says Bishop Potter
Is Logical.

sunday nighI speak on Bishop Pot
ter 'ssnctified saloon. | founS
myself most cordially consenting /,
bis denunciations OF the saloon. Al
| listened l wanted to outrun anc
sweep beyond the doctor in his warn
conclusion and cry:
Leave wringing Of your hand peace
sityou down
And let me wiring your heart; for so
shall,
And II 1t be made Of penerable stuff;
II damned custom hath not braEed il 80
That il be proof and bulwark against
sense"
Here, indeed, Is the hesrt-wring.
ing fact.
Bishop Potter is logical. His act
bis position and views harmonize,
more Is the shame. The bishop has
but blessed the thing he consented
to and licensed at tbs polls. He
simply smiles upnn the fruit he
planted when be voted Can you
tell me why he should not bless the
thing he authorized with bis voteP
Could hs consistently say Eyes" to
the saloon when he voted and then
say mo" to il in the subway He
votes with party which practices
and believes in the license system,
de therefore must consent to the
thing licensed for license 10 consent.
Say what you will of the revenue,
the regulative and restrictive feat.
ures OF the license system, it still
remains system OF consent.
When, in the administration OF 60
vernment, the bishops political
party consents 10 the saloon for
price il does so for him and for oil |,
whom il represents. Why then !
should we complain? Can logical .
mind consent to and dissent from ,
thing At one and the same tims? ,
Nay, verify. When you consent to /
the saloon you consent to its fruit Q
When you license it, you consent TO c
Il. VIVA! one does by his agent he b
does by himself. What your polit- .
Icsl party does you do. II it licsn. y
PES the saloon il does 90 for you =
when you support it, and although :
you DO wholly sanctified, the saloon '
you consent to through your party p
q your saloon in law, in logic and Q,
n morals. Hence il 10 that the 50. 10
oon-hatsd even by its owners-is n
'erpetuated by the men who despise %
nd abhor it. They bless with their 81
'allos what they curse in their u
'raysrs. Thus il comes to pass %
hat "
In the fatnss of these pury times II,
irtue itself Of vice must pardon beg" "
nd alleged Christian men are held Be
d bondage by the power Of pollute d {"
olitics.
No man can logically, legally or :.
iorslly complain OF the saloon and
y its brood Of evils so long as he -
elects as bis agent and representa- 49,
We political party which endorses y,
lie license policy. 20
Bishop Potter may be bad, He Dr.,
iay be DAFT. He certainly is loei. ~
II. Will you permit me TO say Du
rthsr that the views Of politics Of
ere stated are those of Methodist pr
piscopsl church, and not OF my ~
If alone? Time after time that ~
lurch in her legislature-the GEN y.
nj conference-has declared that A.,
no political party has . right to
pee! nor ought it to receive the +,
pport o. Christian men 90 long as "a,
stands committed to the license ma
licy or refuses to put itself on rec lar
q in an attitude Of open hostility Of
the SALON. Methodiets who the
te the ticket of either dominant TER
litical party are under obligations Re
explain to themselves how the ing
urch breaches one thing and they =. -
another. This 10 peculiarly per- 10, uo'
lsnt to Methodist preachers and ,sr -,
esiding elders who are voting d.
city contrary to the preaching of =
cir church. Ia
To say tina! this cannot be very Of
d because SO many good and pious day
IN DO it Is TO use the "good man. Soy
sument, which always proves too me
lch and will defend any course sme
. how it works, e.g.: Polygamy :"
mot DO very bad, for Abraham, ns'
lvid ct al. OF the ancient saints "''
acticsd 1T. Slavery must be right .
cause so good and SO great a man 7
the late George Washington held ,",,,
ves In scuttling ships and kill ~. ~.
men the same argument 10 Viii,
ID. -
consent TO the saloon through ., /
az political party which licenses VIII,
md You are estopped from COM the