The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-22
THE SALOON IS
THE GORING OK"
SUBJECT OF MAsTERLY sEPwoy
BY REV. GEO. n. y. MACK
ON SUNDAY.
PROHIBITION DOES PROHIBIT
Stock Cry of the Liquorites AnFwerss
in Most Convincing
Manner.

, SAuA VI, IL 0NO. II. hdNh uclAf SISG one
of the strongest arguments against
the saloon ever heard here. 1t was a
mastery plea for Statewide prohibt
ton. Dr. Mack said in part:
The text Exodus 21:2S-29) is an
ancient law of the Hebrews. When
an OK gored a person the law required
that it should be killed, but the owner
was free. But if that OK was known
to be vicious and had gored others
and his owner did not confine him, not
only was the OK to die, but his owner
was to suffer the same penalty. He
had no right to allow dangerous ami.
NAL to run at large to prey upon the
people. And when he did so the OK
was his agent in murder and he him.
self must die.
The modern OK is the saloon
modern institution. It's owner is the
combined liquor interests. It is a
magnificent animal, fat and sleek. Its
pastures are green, its stall well-1lled,
it feeds off the best of the land. And
the owner says it may roam at will
There shall be no fence law against
it; it has as much right to the public
highway as a horse or a mule,-as any
other business or institution. Per
Soual riUhtc' &c their nrv
But this OK is one that cores. 1t
has been wont to gore Many man
has witnessed his bloody work upon
the highway and in the quiet premises
of the home. The animal has broken
over fences and barriers and wrought
his deadly havoc in many suffering
He is a terror to all.
And the community rises up and
says, Kill that animal! Don't let him
roam at large! See how he is goring
men" But the owner, the liquor in
.erests-cry, Liberty! You must give
men their personal rights! By which
hey mean, You must let men have
he liberty to get out of the way of
he OK if they can; but at any rate
you must let the OK roam at will.
rhe community answers, mo, he is
-icious, he must die And they have
'orne his depredations SO long that
CIV they speak in terms of the He
rev law and say, the owner must
lie too. The entire traffic must go.
hat is what this great prohibition
lovement means, sweeping over our
md. 1t has fenced off the pasture
f Georgia, of Alabama and Mississip-
|, and Oklahoma, besides Maine and
ansas, and other states-rich pas
Tres for the ox-are about to do the
lme. If they can't kill the OK out
ght they will take away his pasture
Id starve him to death.
People are not troubling them
Ives about the owners cry that
rohibition does not prohibit No
lie expects that every drop will be
,pt out. That might not be so de-
rable anyway But the institution
going. The business that unites
tn other moral evils to make cess
ol of iniquity, a center of criml'
saloon is going. And the
vner' is well aware of it, for he is
nding money into the South to bride
ties and stop it if he can. He is
eading for boys as new recruits, and
saying that 'nickels spent on them
W will mean dollars to their trade til
er on The OK is feeling the loss
his pasture land. He is doomed to
rive.
How much is in this cry of lib
y and personal right?" Our ma
nal Constitution was framed to Sc
'e the blessing of liberty to our
yes and our posterity' and 1t pro-
es that no person shall be deprived
life liberty or property without due
,cess of law Personal freedom IS
learly bought heritage.
But when l use that liberty to the
ury of others, to debauch and de-
de the social body, then the state III
; the big policeman that 1t Is olaT
hand on my shoulder and says'
1p.' The Constitution reserves 10
States the power Of police control
personal liberty whenever
interests of the whole demand IT,
'ent decisions of the u. S. Supreme
rt in child labor cases, in regard 10
hours of labor for women, and IN
state liquor lows, have abundant
,erified this position. Now the cry
The good of society and before J.
rapacity of class must be over
d.. Glass legislation is justihed
n the class Is in1urinp the whole