The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-07-28

Don't forget the Prohibition Mass
Meeting at the Court House next
Sunday evening at 4 o'clock. Hear
what the young voters have to say
on this subject Candidates espec-
tally invited
Let every Christian in the county
read the Esther saloon petition that
they may know who is responsible
for these dens Of iniquity.
There is no justice in a law that
will permit a man in remote corner
of township To petition murder
mill next door To IA man that does
not want IT,
The hotel that cannot run without
a bar ought never to have opened as
a hotel. If it is the bar that makes
II pay, why not call il saloon?
"That preacher who covets the
reputation of being popular with all
classes, and for that purpose side
| steps the sharp corners of rugged
moral issues, mistook his call"
Personally, ! have seen SO much
OF the evils of the traffic in the last
four years, So much of its CcOnmic
waste, so much of its physical ruin,
SO muc!. of its mental blight, so
much of its tears and heart ache,
that have come to regard the bust
ness as one that must be held and
controlled by strong and effective
laws. bear no malice toward those
egaged in the business, but | hate
the traffic. | hate its every phase.
/ hate il for its intolerance. | hate
II for its arrogance. hate 1t for its
hypocrisy. ! hate it for its cant and
craft and false pretenses. hate II
for its commercialism. hate it for
its greed and avarice. hate it for
its sordid love of gain at any price.
hate IL for its domination in poll.
tics. | hate it for it's cOrrupting in
fiuence in civic affairs. hate it for
it's incessant effort to dcbauch the
suffrage of the country; for the cow
ards ii makes OF public men. ] hate
it for its ruthless trampling of the
Of .. -.
, tons. hate it for the load it straps
to laborS's back; for the palsiet
hands ii gives to toll; for its wounds
to genius, for the tragedies of it,
might-haVe-bccns.
. hate 1t for the human wrecks il
: has caused. | hate it for the aims
= houses it peoples; for the prisons il
l fills; for the insanity it hegets: FOL
5 its countless graves in potter
r. fields. ! hate ii for the mental ruiz
! it imposes upon its victims; for thu
t spiritual blight; for its moral deg
=. radiation. hate 1t for the crimes /
= has committed. hate it for tn,
' homes it has destroyed. hate i
" for the hearts it has broken. | hat
y it for the malice it has planted il
: the hearts of men; for its poison 70
I its bitterness, for the dead sea frui
n with which 1t starves their souls.
], hate it for the grief il cause
! womanhoud-the scalding tears, TIL
hopes deferred, the strangled aspira
tions, its burden of want and care.
hate 1t for it's heartless cruelt.
to the aged, the intirm and the help
less; for the shadow ii throws upo
the lives of children; for its mon
strous injustice to blameless littl
, ones.
- hate IL as virtue hates vice, Il
:, truth hates error, as Righteousness
- hates sin, ms justice hates wrong, a
liberty hates tyranny, ms freedoi
hates oppression.
y hate it as Abraham Lincol
u hated slavery. And AS he sometime
', saw in prophetic vision the end
III slavery and the coming of the tin
=" when the sun should shine and Il
'e rain should fall upon no slave
all the republic, SO sometimes see
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