The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-09-29
TORCH LAKE HAPPENINGS
AND BRIEFS

ponents of prohibition, but for a
friendly editor a series of articles on
various subjects:
Local option is not remedy-no
repressive measure is remedy any
more than the looping off of fungus
growth when the tree is diseased AT |
the roots. 1t is a negative and not
nositive. destructive and not con-
structive.
what if every saloon is closed ana
the door of every brothel shut by
force? Would there be any new ana
surprising expansion of intelligence
any large and sudden increase In the
number of chaste and temperate peo-
pie? To state the question is TO an
swer it in the negative. RepressiVe
prohibition is not in harmony WIN
the law of evolution or with the phil
osonhical method of individual ana
social regeneration. The best ana
highest method of overcoming evil Is
Inv the counter victorious power OF
good. Evils are outgrown, not am
putated.
"The Master Teacher of the ages
and the central figure of Chrlsteh-
dom said: L am not come to destroy
: hut to fulfil If you take the cup
from the drunkard and the cards from
the gambler you must provide lhho-
= cont recreation, healthful occupations
$ uplifting novelties and excitementS
e aud much radiant cheerfulness thai
A shall in time make them loathe al
f sensual pleasures and all revelrles o.
= excess. II you fail to do TINS YOU
$ work is wholly destructive ana YOU
r, victims are left i'm a vacuum wlthou
n self control or self-direction' ho'
e must give in place of what you TAX
= away by furnishing new objects o
= activity and happiness far in advanc
of the old. This is the true methou
:" reform, the method of construcuo
N and fulhllment.
N "And when each family begins
At study this method and follows II
Or then will begin the most wondert'
reformation of all the ages
X The Servant In the House.
- "Is therd anything in this stat'
'u mont which should not appeal to II
!" telligent preachers of the gospei
Il christi demanded a, Detroit friend
Rev Mr.. Whitford. Il know that NJ
y Xyhitford has never received penn
IL eron, the liquor interests for TINS
onv other writing or work. kh'
'e- ,hat no is desperately poor | kn'
that he detests the evils OF lhsnip'
once. You have seen that because
nis principles he has made the l
y" sacrifice of severing his connectlu
re with the Methodist church.
:" "Mr Witford and Mr.. Taylor
III. ,ho servants I'm the House OF
Methodist church. They nave u''
to tell their brethren the truth aD'
en- heir erroneous method of bring
a." ohout TEMPERANCE. Their deductl'
orc practically the same as those m
s'U NV bishop Charles ID. Williams oil
n,,ohigan Episcopal diocese, and OF
mar with the teachings OF the Oa'
nc church. which believes win
paul that "if righteousness come
~ tho law then is Christ dead in van
"Mr. Whitford has served the
,nodist church faithfully for more l
- quarter of a century. He is a IN
CT sacrifice TO the needs of his fe
mon. He worked i'm the lumber ca
~ ~ the lower peninsula ana III
mining camps of the upper penihs
In his earlier years he was a III
tering angel in many OF the M
CAMPS 1 have known of his gong
70 nurse sick miners when 'ne
a nerature was "a degrees below
~ and his other friends. Know
81 his exposure has brought about
~ present infirmities at the age
- when he ought to be