The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1905-07-06
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MODERN DRINK HABIT.
1t Is a Bondage That Is Worse Than
Slavery and Claims More Vic
Gins Than the Scourge.

Herbert Spencer said: People never
go right until they have tried all pos
sihle ways of going wrong"
The English philosophers statement
has application to the modern drink
habit. Abraham Lincoln said OF slav-
cry that mo nation can remain half
slave and half free"
The modern drink habit Is a greater
slavery than human bondage, says the
Cleveland World. Slavery had but one
tap root, avarice In the heart OF the
slave owner, but the modern bondage
has two tap roots, avarice in the hearts
Of the manufacturers and sellers or
strong drink aud appetite In the VIC
tins
Every attempt to curb or To regulate
this evil causes men TO decry the enort
as an attack upon personal liberty.
The question, however, as 70 whether
or not saloons shall exist IL not one OF
personal liberty. Every citizens lib
erty ends where the rights Of his
neighbors begin.
A man has the right TO drive his own
horse a mile Ia three minutes. II there
by he does not infiict cruelty TO his
animal, but he cannot drive at that
speed within the limits OF the city,
where the rights OF pedestrians must
also be safeguarded.
A citizen has the right to manufac-
ture glue or powder, but not within
certain municipal bounds. for the safe
~ and comfort Of citizens may be
greater good than the coming OF money
in these ways.
II the saloon. as an institution,
proves to be a nuisance In the com
munity. depreciating property values.
breeding crime and poverty. then a
community can abolish the saloon
without discussing the right OF any In
dividual 10 drink intoxicating liquors.
What Chief Justice fancy, OF the
United States supreme court. said
years ago has been upheld by that
court IN the instance OF every appeal
touching the legility OF prohibitory
laws Judge fancy said; IF any state
deems the retail and internal trafio
In ardent spirits injurious 10 It's citi-
zens. and calculated 20 produce idle
ness. vice and debauchery. see moth
ing In the constitution OF the United
States 20 prevent Il from regulating
OF restraining the trafiic. or prohibit
ing Il altogether n II thinks proper"
The Law preventing the public sale
OF certain kinds OF meas Is just as
sumptuary a law as the one prohibit
Ing the sale OF poisonous drinks as 4
beverage.
what John O.. Holland said In 1879
Is all the more true to-day: Men
dread cholera. the yellow fever and the
smallpox. and take expensive precau-
ton against II. while the ravages of
all OF them in one year do not produce
the mischief that intemperanoe does In
a month. II Is worse than a plague,
worse than FIRE or inundation or war.
Nothing but sickness. death. immoral
ity. crime. pauperism. and a frightful
waste OF resources comes Of r. Moth
ing Is born OF H. Meantime our public
men are timid about II. our children
are half Indifferent over H. our pollti-
clans utter wise things about personal
rights and sumptuary laws. and the
people are going 10 the devil"
Fathers. mothers. don't drink your
selves. and teach your children to
avoid the use OF intoxicating liquors ar
they would shun the cholera and the
smallpox.