The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-01-20

But there must be no dallying
Your fires of wrath against it must
be kindled at the altars OF Isaiah
and John the Baptist and Jesus
and Paul, and you must not be lily
livered. Neither the Old Testa-
ment prophets nor the New Testa-
ment apostles were ever ensnared in
such a muddle-remember it was
Horace Greeley's word-of stupid
ity and perversity as our politicians
have made by their handling of the
liquor traffic. The victory is ours
if we will but be brave and out
spoken, and il we do not stain our
hands by completely in the business
The minister of the gospel must
fight the saloon precisely as he
fights lying and theft and adultery
aud murder. He can no more ex-
cuse himself from the former than
the latter. In pleading for it he
must plead against Satan. II we
would rid our land from its bitter
fruit, we must lay the ak at the root
of the trees. The saloon must be
redeemed from its reasonable use
in the decoration of the grogshops
never see flag over saloon but
feel like bombarding the place
and recovering our stolen standard.
The other day in South American
waters foreign ship flying our flag
stole up on an unsusppctlng enemy.
Our consul demanded an immediate
apology, and tot it, He demanded
that that same flag be hoisted by
that same ship aud saluted, aud It
was done. But when saloon
keeper steals our flag, and under
il creeps upon our unsuspec'ing
sons aud fellow-cltlzets with muir
derous intentions, we simply col
lect our annual bribes frC m him
and tell him to q ahead But the
lover OF his country il getting his
eyes open and let it b' re eated-
il he lives, the destroyer OF his
country must go.
In the thud place there is the ap-
peal of Proniblton to the man
among msn-iover of men aud low
er Of God
The ether day | was exprf asine
myself quite polntedly to busi-
ness man about the saloon. ami be
said: at d ,sen't bother me, my
boys don't drink Before ne
words were out of his mouth felt
my indignation rising such n~n
are almos' more uuOearaole than
the saloon keepers the'iseives Al
low me TO apostrophise this man Tor
a moment. Thou art willing art
thou, o Whited Sepulchre, for other
people to suffer. to be made drunk
en- and brutal and muiderous; thou
art willing for fortunes to be wrecked
and homes to be broken and public
morals TO be lowered; thou dost
not care that wives are mistreated
and children are orphaned and bro
thes are crowded, and the city
slums reek with infamy.-thou canst
wink at all this and make it a
mouthful Of morning gossip If.
only thou and thy SOUS get of scott
free o, thou sou of Cain who was
thy mother2 Surely, thou grand
child of the first murder, surely
thou art not thy brothers keeper
Go to Isaiah thou needless one,
and learn OF him 10 care tor your
country. Go to jerusalem and
learn Of him to weep when your
neighbors sin. Go to John the
Baptist, and learn what it means to
bave a generation OF vipers in the
land. Go to Jesus, and learn how
to love men and to pray for
them and to vote for them and to
suffer and weep when they weep.
earn of Jesus behold him living
and dying for men, and loving them
as his own brother and claiming
them for himself in universal bro
ther hood and mutual helpfulness-- ]
learn Of Jesus and the prophets, .,
one and then you will
be fit to live, to dwell in a republic,
and to discuss government, and
weld a ballot. W | Leamon.