The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-23
THE WARFARE AGAINST DRINK
TEMPERANCE BATTLE GATHERS
STRENGTH EVERY DAY.
The Personal Liberty Fake.

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law, the Supreme Court of the United
States, for years has sustained pro-
hibition as a right OF the people. II
has said, the people can go to the ex-
tent Of "entire prohibition" II has
decided that "the liquor traffic 10 not
a useful occupation, but one harmful
and pernicious." According to the
rulings of the Supreme Court, prohi-
bition is not violation of either
civil rights or individual liberty. Is
the Supreme Court "riff-raff of NOR
al idiots" are these decisions born
of intolerance, and are its members
intermeddlers?
The personal liberty cry belongs
to a barbarian past, and not to this
age. when one cannot build himself
a frame house within fire limits of a
city, or set up slaughter house
within city borders, or drive his own
horse faster than walk across a
bridge, or smoke cigar in a railroad
car where ladies are, and where la
dies themselves cannot wear merry
widow hats in opera houses.
Bob Burdette said: THE Declara-
ton of Independence was not written
In a beer garden on a Sunday after
noon, not by jug full" The barrier
line of personal liberty lies between
the help and the hurt Of another;
over this line we have no right to step
to the injury of our neighbor.
Mr.. Watterson bitterly denounces
as tyrannical, the sumptuary law that
denies to a citizen the right to order
his life, his home, his meat, his drink,
his clothing according to his convent
ence." VIII not Mr.. Watterson apply
Il, 30, 90, h. L.. A 4.
saloon?
Every woman in our country who
ills the holy office of wife or mother,
has right to a home. The sumptu-
airy law of the saloon says to hum
dreds of thousands you shall not
have a home. you shall live in a
hovel. you shall not order your home.
nor food, nor drink, nor clothing to
suit your convenience, but these
things shall be ordered to suit the
saloon. You shall toll all day in the
harness of oppression and when
night comes you shall not even order
your restful sleep, but watch the stars
for the return of drunken husbands
and sons" What about this inhu-
man denial of the right to order meat,
drink, clothing and home life?
Every child in this country has
right to an education and a chance
In the world.
The liquor traffic says to a great
army of children, You shall have
neither; to the streets and sweat
shops you shall go to earn bread,
and by evil environment you shall be
handicapped throught your youth. >"
One Of the most inhuman facts the
sun has shone on since 1t hid its face
from that awful crime on Calvarys
summit, is seen in multitudes of wo-
men and children denied the right to
order their food, clothing, education
and home life, by the tryannical
sumptuary law of the liquor traffic.
Are these to suffer on in silence that
men may order for their drink what,
TO say the least, they do not need :,
and what the Supreme Court says Is
the source of more misery and crime
than any other? When on election
days these women and children gath
er near the polls and out of the ashes
OF smitten home life, plead with men
to remove what denies them the right
to order their life comforts and Joys,
are they to have no more respectful
reference in the Courier-Journal than
that their presence is ian indecent
spectacle?"
Cardinal Rlchelleu, when his niece
was demanded by licentious king,
said
"Around her form draw the awful circle
of our kingly church;
Step foot within, and on thy head aye!
though 1t wear crown,
III lay the curse of Rome"
Shall the crown of gold on the dis
tlllers' and brewers brow in Ken
tucky hush into silence the lion
hearted manhood OF our State, when
the sons and daughters of Columbia
are demanded to feed the nav of the
liquor raffic?-Colonel Geo. w. Balm.