The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-09
w. c. 7. U.COLUMN
CONDUCTED By MRS. N. l.. HoRRs.
InE COLLEGE MANS PARTY.


Grafton II James c.. Welch Uui
yersity OF Michigan al National
Inter Colleague Contest, la
dianapoiis, June IS, 1904.
For the ambitious American. the
age Of brllliantachievemenis has not
passed. Great reforms have tri.
um9hed true leaders haya appeared
noble hearts have hoped and won
Tor forty centuries. But keeuei
minds will be pr. dnced, drawer
leaders will be heralded, vaster re-
forms will bee i~naugurated during
the next century than the world
ever witnessed in lis most striking
eras. When Philip OF Macedon
won al ChaeTOnia, his son AleXan.
der wept bitterly, because he feared
that his father would leave no bat
ties for him 10 win, no lands for him
10 conquer, no enemies for him 20
vanqu.sh. But when Alexander
the Great became bis fathers sue
cessor. he found two continents, a.
yet unknown to the Macedonian
phalanx.
To the college man oftoday study
ng our political history, at first
iush the work Of the statesman and
Of the politician seems almost tx
hausted.
Jefferson hes drafted the Declara
ton OF Human Right which viii
furnish a creed to every new demo
cracy Hamilton has interpreted
be constitution which made oul
government the ideal modern re-
public; Lincoln has signed a Pm
clamation which rev|olutionized the
industries Of a continent Mckinley
mas defined the policy which makes
the United States a world power.
But another movement Is grad
ually arousing the American con-
sciences This reform needs the
initiative OF the fearless agitator to
bring its force home to the minds
Of the people; 1t needs the mod
Of the conservative statesman
to make It's inception legal and res
pected it needs the tact Of the keen
politician TO render it principles
practical and operative. In a word
the elimination Of the American Il
luor traffic is a task worthy OF the
lblest college and university men in
this country. When Wendell
Philips lay upon his death bed, a
young friend during a conversation
With the great apostle OF Abolition,
expressed a regret that be himself
had no, lived to participate in the
anti slavery movement. Philips
pointed across the street 20 a saloon
and in the eager, earnest tones Of q
man, exclaimed Young
man, | have given my life to the
work Of Abolition, and the success
Jf this reform Is now assured but
Il God would grant me another life.
I would devote every moment OF II
10 the equally sacred cause OF lem
oerance Reform" AZ long as o
solitary legalizad saloon survives to
a single American manhood
)r womanhood, there Is work Tor
every conscientious, educated pa
riot TO accomplish.
That the saloon Is an evil, no
man DENTS. The American peo-
pie have never long endured the ex
.stence Of an evil danger lus TO ma
lonal life and repugnant 70 the gen
sral welfare. We submit the pro
position that the only adequate rem
sdy ever proposed for the saloon
svil l. Prohibition. NJ other solu .
ion for the liquor problem has ever
been suggested which does not in
a compromise, aud compro-
mise with wrong never has elimina
ed an evil and never will solve q
moral problem. Without a Declar
Ition OF independence, the thirteen
Of America never have
uccessfully combated the armed
orces Of England. Without a par
platform, distinct from Whigs
be Republican party Of 1850 con q
never have effected the manumis-ion
4 tie slave without an open -epa-
ate organization OF political forces
temperance reform can never sec Il,
complete victory. !
We believe that the Prohibition
,arty i the logical party for the
progressive college man First, BE- I
ause it stands for a vital issue ,
second, because it represents a high I
rational ideal; Third because it
assesses the elements OF a success
al reform.
Said Wendell Phillips: ono one !
imposes that law can make men Z
emperate, but law can shut upir
hese bars and dram-shops, which I
acilitate and feed incompetence
which double our taxes, treble the I
,eril to property and life, and make (
he masses tools in the hands Of de- y
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