The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-08
BY I. CULPEPPER.

BY J. CULPEPPEhs
 It may not be amiss for me to call morals by the law, to my late discov.. cry (this ought to give me g kind of pr. Cook notoriety) that the Thou sI. shalt 2 9otn t.. has s & always been provoca-
 Sometimes, I think the "I will" Is a good match for the Thou shalt not" and, once or twice. on momentous oc-
 Thou shalt not" is curtailment of
 T will" rssents the trssDass or re-
 Out of these very positive assertions Eden was lost.
 But 1t shows an innate disposition of man to chafe under denials of rightA If he chafed under Divine law may we not expect that he will do the same un. der restrictive human lawa' . If so, then the moralist should gc slow" in leading man to higher things by. drastic, punitive, restrictive laws.
 In religion, 1t has been found effec- shooting him with guns and filling him with whiskey and opium. But religion and morals are two religion and one can be very acceptably religious without knowing the a. b. C. of morals.
 psr6sgs ought , a to ,a say S. .hss sst thsss s% writing from current data.
 The Moralist and Religionist who l vainly imagines that morals and rellg- ion can be legislated into the people ought to consider that the State Is a corporation--that a corporation has no soul--therefore the State has no soul. Morals and Religion partake. more or less of sentiment. The soulless corpo- ration has no sentiment. A study of the returns from the Con- lief lief that the State (without a soul. rec | ollect) is interested in the criminality of its citizens. The State wants rev. enue.
 Drastic, punitive. prohibitive laws will provoke the criminality that as-
 Is that what the moralist and reiig- | ionist want?
 The Lord forbid! But it looks like 1t. I hope my Baptist brethren will se- the error of their way and get on the
 Perhaps only a few of them have de- parted from the faith.
 "While the lamp holds out to burn. Mistaken Baptists may return" that I want to call attention to. Thi: appeal. on the part of politicians t' | lovely woman"
 These ''prohibitors" seem to think they have a monopoly of that business | They seem to want to make the i'm precision that they and they alone are interested in women and children.
 On the part of the Safe and Sane I'm going. right now. to challenge that
 won't say that the "Prohibitors" dc not love their women and children -th C Lord forbid. q knew a man. once. who | had fits, and he appeared affectionate towards his family--in his lucid mo- | ments)
 Even paranoiacs have lucid moments
 Asserting with the full power of my pencil. that the men who are standing ln the oT tSs l fare of the women and children as any body and perhaps, as anybody else, want to impress upon the good woman tingu!shed character had planned the 'iovelY woman"
 The details of the story can be found l in an ancient writing. Milton took it up and elaborated 1t.
 Even in this day and time" when a upon men or their rightS the deceiver and tempter and destroyer practise the arts of his great forerunner and ap-
 SLoyely woman ought to say Get thee behind me. satanF'
 'Lovely woman" ought to recollect rfshts ne of ThS msn Eaats prsey s9 for her to lean upon.
 The best friend of woman Is he who stands and contends for the rights ot 
 think she will endorse my conclu- sinnA.
 If my reasoning is wrong I am open to conviction and correction.
 notice, with a great deal of sorrow | that some of our Associations" have gone into politica
 think this comes. not of general depravity, but of courtesy to the visit | ing brother"
 The visiting brother" Is generally pretty assertive and several Phiiedel- l ne sions Of his knowledge.
 The Associational endorsement of the | prohibition amendment comes CT old l fashioned country courtesy yielding to the superabundance of knowledge, or atory and eloquence of the visiting | brother"
 He sweeps 'em off their feet" Let nobody be alarmed by such en- dorsement. We generally resolve to ''tonch not. taste not, handle not" but I have failed to observe the putting of the resolution into practice.