The Falls City tribune., 1909-08-06

IF thou seeth the oppression OF the
poor, aud violent perverting of judg-
ment aud justice in a province, mar
vel not AT the matter; for he that
is higher than the highest regardest;
and there be higher than they
Solomon was not only n preacher,
but he was a philosopher n well,
and was evidently n strong believer
in what the great of the earth, in all
times, have called manifest destiny.
That. above the acts of men. whether
in their individual or collective cap
acity, and whether good or bad, he,
COR something) that is higher than
the highest, is steadily regarding, and
in his own good time win right per-
vertcd Justice in the provinces,
tnations), and relieve the expressions
of the poor. This, according TO my
interpretations of the foregoing cx-
eerpt from a book OF very great
authority. is what the author intended
should be understood. If ii was true
in that age, it is true in this. and
has been true in every other. In
this paper | propose to give the ordi-
nary experience and observations of
an ordinary wayfarer ON the one
journey We are all taking through
the world, touching matter germane
TO the philosophical proposition of
the Jewish sayant.
1t requires a long time for human
kind to get out of an old rut. We
are essentially a precedent loving
race, and perhaps II is just as well.
The reforms in human society and
government hat have been of great
est benefit, have been gradual in their
Inauguration and development. 1t
must be remembered that the road
from the mental and moral midnight
of barharism - mans original and
first c~ondition-has been a long and
weary one. 1t took every year of
tory tells of, to produce n Shakes
peare; and 1t took every hour of
that long period to evolve the con
ditions that made him possible. The
slow growth is the healthy and the
permanent one-the forced and UNI
natural, the ephmeral and short-lived.
Common observation discloses the
fact that in plant life there are three
stages In its growth; first in the
root, second in the stem and third in
the flower and fruit. The anne is
true of mans life.
His first growth is in stature, the
second in breadth, till the physical
and moral flower and fruit; and out
of that flower and fruit has grown all
the civil, moral and intellectual excel
lence of the race. But to attain its
present high stage of development
som element of its original barbar-
Gus origin had to be discarded from
time to time, and with each slough
of the kind, n step forward was made
There is n good deal of the bar
barian, the ~troglodyte, the cave dwell
er, and the wild man of the woods,
lingering yet in the man civilized, in
these opening years of the twentieth
century: one trait in particular, the
drink habit. 1t is as old as mans
ah;lst, IN nppHnon on infnyinonf hnt
sharp attention to its pernicious eff
fects on men and society was not
directed till about one hundred years
ago. At that time, and for centuries
before, the habit or custom among
all classes of people of drinking liq-
uor that would intoxicate, was as uni
versal as man himself, except in Mo-
hammedan countries, where the use
of all intoxicants We're inhibited by
edict of the Prophet that no N
dared disobey. | am discussing this
question in its historical and socio-
logical aspects only. Beyond that l
will leave "Billy'' Sunday and the
press that favors the liquor traffic
to fight il out among themselves.
Within the space of my own life,
and the cycle is rapidly nearing COM
pletion, | have had occasion TO know
and to observe the practical effects
of the liquor habit and traffic on in
dividuals and upon society generally
around me. My first recollection OF
the matter is, that drinking was the
rule and total abstinence the excep-
ton. have lived long enough TO see
that order reversed, and drinking be-
come the exception, and soberiety
the rule.
Let me give a fact or two. When
| began the study of the law in the
decade of 1850, I knew but one mem
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