Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1906-10-04

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measure and expressed a willingness
to stick to the miserable fraud of a
statute known as the North Dakota
prohibition law.
The world is full OF such men as
Ogden. They are to be found In the
legislature IS we'll as In the pulpit.
Possessed OF mediocre ability, their
only chance OF attracting attention is
by denouncing the honesty OF the party
leaders and all Of the people repre-
sentatives but themselves and their
Clique. They are q cheap lot of politi-
cal skates, and they usually cut but
little ice In shaping affairs, for the
reason that people generally estimate
them at their true value, and not at
the value they set upon themselves.
THE chances are three to one that
the Rev. Ogden is not acquainted with
Gov. Sarles. He talked last Sunday
just as he has probably heard some of
the insurgents talk-men who are not
worthy to hold y candle to the govern
or in the matter OF honesty. ability
and good citizenship. And, not hav-
Ing done anything remarkable so far
during his mission to the Emmons
county heatllen, he Thought to make
point by saying something startling.
The editor of the Record knows
nothing of Governor Sarles habits.
We have heard that he takes a drink
when he wants it. a good many
other good citizens do likewise. A
man who dues not drink may have
other vices. lie may be Il teetotaler
aud still be penurious, libertine,
hypOcritical, dishonest and thoroughly y
disliked for these and IA dozen other
drawbacks uf character. He may
even invite the public lo attend IA
temperance lecture and give them IA
political speech. reetotalism cuts
no figure In the matter.
What we know 0f the governor OF
North Dakota Is this: For IL quarter
OF century he has been an honest
and upright business man of the state.
He is , member OF a high degree of
Freemasonry-something las we are
Informed, not being Mason) that he
could not be were he such man as
the Rev. Ogden painted him to the
audience obtained last Sunday night
under false pretenses. He is a kindly,
courteous, generous man-one of those
men who make many friends, and
whose friends stick to him to the end.
1t will take more than series of
roasts by bunch Of peripatetic muck
rakers Of the Ogden stripe to cause
them to forsake him.
A few months ago we had in Lin
ton Z Methodist minister who was do
ing much good. He was kind,
broad-minded man, and he certainly
could influence for their own better
ment dozens of men where his success.
or cannot influence an individual
The great drawback with men of the
Garry Hardenbrook- Ogden brand is
that every person outside of the church
is forced by them into position of
antagonism. They possess no such
virtue as broad-ininded charity. They
| forget that lone mans meat is an
other mans poison" 1t never occurs
TO them-mUst of them being rabid
temperance fanatics the civil
lied world does not consider the tenn
perate use of intoxicants a crime.
They look at conditions through their
own narrow, warped vision, and every
one who does not agree with them in
al things is unworthy Of having an
effort made for his salvation.
II heaven is peopled with this class
we prefer the other place.
The trouble with Mr.. Ogden anc
other narrow w-minded persons of his
genus is that they want to make the
world conform to their tastes and hab
its. II they don't wish to do a thing
1t must. perforce, be wrong for othcr
to do it. They compound for sin
they are inclined to by damning Those
they have no mind to-" They don
want others to take amy pleasure il
life, unless the pursuitof such pleas
ure runs along the lines laid down b,
them.
Macaulay, writing Of the Puritan
opposition to bear batting, says: THE.
we're opposed to bear-baiting prob
ably not SO much ON account of an!
pain that it might give the bear. bu
because 1t gave pleasure to the people.
There are others to-day whoie opposi
tion to all amusements for which
they do not care may be ti..ced-no
to the harm such amusen'ents do
but to the happiness they bring =
those who partake OF them.
In conclusion, we would iggest t.
+ the reverend muckraker th IL ism
= wise policy ON the part OF a preiche
in free America to attempt To rounf
, up sinners with the big stick; tina
the Man of Galilee was not accus