Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-10-04
DECLARES LAW
ENFORCEABLE
REV, BAKER GIFTS INTO TEMPER,
ANCE HARNESS SUNDAY
IN TRANSITION STAGE
IrNOut uf Liquor Law la Oklahoma
Not Ready for Dlscnrdncnl,
SAYS Pastor

From this time onward to the clcc.
ton ON November y, the church ru-
crs In Tulsa viii listen to some very
lively and interesting disruurses m
connection with that phase ut the ls-
sues dealing with the re-suhmlssluu
question Not only are organizations
,n the rural communities being form
ed to Fight the ground with the anti
Prohibition forces, but here In Tulsa
there Is To- De a concentrated effort
the cdirt of the Ministerial Alliance,
to present to audiences that rll the
churches the Views held by their pas
torH
The first pastor Of Tulsa TO enter
the discussion IN hammer-md-totlg
fashion was Rev james W Baker
of the First Methodist Episcopal
church, Boulder and Filth, sunday
night when he preached temper
auce sermon, using as text the
words found in llub. 2;15, Woe untl
him that giveth his neighbor drink,
that puttcth thy bottle to him and
makcth him drunken"
In commenting upon the text he
suggested that the law Is for the pur.
pose Of making It easy to do right
and hard To do wrong, and that amy
man or corporation that WlltullY
makes II easy for persons to do wrong
and hard for them tu de- right becomes
la party to the crimes which may he
committed I'm showing some of the
'evil effects of the liquor traffic upon
society, he quoted Judge SWhbs of
the Juvenile court of indianapolis and
cN-policc Judge Of the same city as
declaring that 90 per cent of all cases
coming before him as police Judge
were the result Of the liquor traffic.
lie also quoted Carol -, Wright 'n
his Practical Sociology, page iOl, as
declaring that H per cent Of all crime
is due either directly or indirectly to
the liquor traffic. The same author
also says that 90 per cent, of all per-
sons In almshOuses had been users of
liquor. and As per cent of all had one
or both parents who were incorporate,
In speaking of the different meth
ods that are put forth TO control the
liquor traffic. he spoke Of the Goth
enburg method, which has been trled
in Norway and sweden, and in a mod.
| flied form In South Carolina, with
very uniavorabe results, He de-
clared that the Gothenburg method
develops monopoly of bad bust
ness and this In turn becomes con-
centrated power for bad, II con
dones and tries to make respectabl,
business that Is absolutely wrong
In speaking of the license system
he declared that license Is a per
NIT to do that without which the do
ing would he opposed by the author
tiles. The fact that a license Is re
Iquired, agreed to, sought after an,
laccepted is presumptiVe evidence tina
there Is no vested right In the thinl
to be licensed It Is Universally con
ceded that the liquor traffic has n,
vested right but when license i
granted It accepts delegated righ
from society He quoted Abraham
Lincoln In his great debate with Doug
las as saying douglas claims tina
any community that wants slaves hal
u right to have them; 50 they hav,
If II is not wrong, but he cannot 81!
that any people have a right to dc
wrong"
! Henry CLAY In his Compromise
never solved the slavery question
Slavery existed without vested right
and was wrong Even so the c0mpro
! mise of licensing the liquor trafli'
will never solve the problem, becaus'
no community has right to dc
wrong.
Hence we can see that local op
| ton, however plausible In theory o
! government cannot solve the liquo
, problem. agree that any Communit,
/ g.. 4 nj. 49,. -u..lI
| quor, establish houses Of III fame
have slavery, provided these thing
are not wrong; but If wrong then
deny any community the right to do
a wrong, and licensing wrong neve
makes II right II may be asked
does not this destroy personal liber
ltyY but | answer, not real liberty
Personal liberty only grants the rlgh
10 do as one pleases so long as thl
I doing as one pleases does not keel
some other person from enjoying tn
right to do a wrong. Hence, we den
las It is not wrong No man has
right to do a rong, Hence, we den
the right of any community to sci
4 liquor IT, as has already been sug
gested, the selling Of this liquor in
creases court costs and public char
J ity.
III then, the license system and 10
cal option cannot rightly deal wit
the question what is to be done? Tn
lonly right way to deal with a recog
nl2ed evil is to prohibit II. For year
we tried to regulate slavery and /
compromise with 1t, but II bein
wrong, must be settled by prohibition
Are you willing to compromise wit
= theft, allow 1t at certain hours an
under certain conditions, but at othe
times prohibit It? Are you willin
to compromise with murder Al
you willing to compromise with couf
terfeiting2 Are you willing to con
b promise with the social evil? M
my friends, the only right attitud
toward such public questions is thi
of prohibition, because no communit
has right to do a wrong,
1T Is sometimes said that there
more drinking under prohibition tina
with saloons This ! deny, If II wer
true, all of the breweries and distillel
les would use their money TO caus
the wet territory to become dry, iC
they are IN the manufacturing bus
ness for the purpose of selling the
product. Adolph Busch, Of st, Loui
was quoted as saying that when Okli
homa went dry II cost him more tina