Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1906-10-11

you or l to change the law Of God
and substitute whisky and brandy
for wine?" l now ask that question
again, if you have a right to do it
tell when and where. You seem to
Intimate that inasmuch as God crea-
ted all things and called them good,
He, therefore, made whisky. And
then you ask why do not tell the
good whisky does; true, it does some
good. am told that it acts as an
antidote for snake bites; there are
perhaps forty lives saved annually by
its use, while upon the other hand
60, 900 die annually; out Of the forty
that are bitten if they we're to die,
perhaps some of them would go to
heaven, but the $4,000, we know
there is no heaven for them, | Cor,
6;10. If whisky was so beneficial to
our race, why did not God reveal its
use? With all the wisdom of Solo
mon he knew nothing about it, or
if he did he was too wise to make it,
why was it left to to be conceived in
the mind of heather man in Ara
bia, only little more than three
hundred years ago. know that
the man who receives in exchange
for his grain or cider the powerful
liquid. ,upposes the spirits naturally
exist in the grain or apples a. meal
or cider do. They. therefore. infer
the Creator intended the spirits for
the use of man. a. he did the meal
or apples. That there is no poison
in the meal or apples. that there is
none in the spirits. These inferen-
ces are invalid and void since it is an
indisputable fact that alcohol. which
is their substance, does not exist in
the apples and grain. This is dem
onstrable from the fact that the odor
or taste of alcohol cannot be per-
ceived in the meal or cider obtained
from it in its sweet state. By fermen-
tation the sweetness disappears and
alcohol, new substance, is found to
be present; carry the fermentation a
step farther and vinegar, another
new substance, is produced, still a
step further, and putrid, unhealthy
exhalations result such as rise from
swamps in which vegetable matter de-
Gays Now if God intended us to
use alcoholic liquors, because they
are obtained from substances which
are harmless and beneficial to our
race, he must have intended us to
breathe obnoxious vapor and .cxhal,
tations because they result from the
decomposition of vegetable matter,
or the putrihcation Of sweet animal
food. claim it is wrong to manu-
facture alcoholic ! liquor, because
God : designs are thwarted IN every
drop that is'made.
But'you ask where | get my sta
tistics. thought all men knew
where statistics come from. Now.
there was a gentleman in my shop a
few days before your article came
out; it was IN the Office for publica-
ton. however He used the same
arguments you have. Now, | want
to know whether you borrowed your
ideas from him, or he borrowed his
from you-which was it? | know
Great minds often run in the same
channel, ~ but seldom convey their
ideas in exactly the same language.
You do not seem to like statistic
they prove too much for you. You
rather intimate they were taken by
temperance men; perhaps some of
them we're; some were not. We get
them from auditors, judges, jail
keepers, etc. Judge Cissell, in his
last charge to the grand jury at our
April term of court, gave the sta
tistics from the auditors report of
the state Of Pennsylvania. He said
that 25, 900 criminals and paupers