Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-29
is IT RIGHT OR WRONG?

Is H. ,icnt to build churches to save
men. ami i,cens. saloons to destroy them
body and soulf
Is il riyiit to license a man to sell what
will make a man drunk and then punish
aim for being drunk?
Is il ri .it t. license a man to ma ke
,paupers and then tax solver men to take
care OF them!
Is it right to liceuse a saloon to teach
vice and then tax people to furnish
schools 10 teach virtuei
Is it right to teach young boys not to
drink OF gamble and then vote to license
II place for drinking and gambling?
Is is right to take care of your
boy and then vote to license a place
which will ruin your neighbours boy:
Is it right to preach justice and char.
ity, then vote to license a thing which
robs the widows and orphants Of their
bread?
Is it right for you to go to the polls
and vote without having studied this
question seriously, Carefully and prayer
fully
Prohibition is the simplest and easiest
solution 0! what the politician Of ali par.
ties viii admit is the most vexed question
'Os government today-for the thousand
and Que Negotiations that have been de
viscd - keep the saloon within proper
limits We would institute the single law. |
The saloon shall not exist. The saloon
ouce owl of existence we will not have to
wait for tie ~nhlleniuni-it will be here. ]
The saloon istbe only factory that isj
ashamed of Inc work it turns out Every
other business points with pride to what
II can furnish for men or wornen or the
t4"rIcs If the land. Rut the liquor traf.
tic, tac fearful trade that ~tlri>es only on
the sins and sorrows and sufcrings of
oar fellow uien, shiiuks away in disgust
from ,hc creation Of its own handiwurk
The saloon is proud of its customers,
wacn they first enter its mills, and when
i"cr ~" ~ p;ocese Of going through it,
~ NNo'utlpu, DHl Wien ING
%"is is enl"d-when the poor d~runkar's
are nH'.h,d IN their manufacturing, the
:rrv bar keeper who assisted in the work
regards the creature of his as a miscreant
.n' !'Cks him from his door.
II Is 40 wonder that the cod slc,t OF
'!le hostile worlds opin'on is beating
asa'Nht the face Of every man engaged
'!ihyr III wholesale Gi retail in a busirrse
W. II d"rtS to dislrAy the raw material
with "hirh it works, but is co,npr,i,l in
al me to bill" ont from the save of ran.
KIM !,ie completed and perfected pro.
''c' OF il manipulation the finished mi. |
br'ttc. - ne . Grunkarl is wicket. To
:dake drunkards - wicked. TO make a
hr"lktrd make is wicked. To make a
law VIA; makes 4 drunkard is w,clc ed
10 help make n legislature to lnalo a
law 70 make a drunkard maker is Nir,-i
ct. So ;he whole business of drinking
90 Se.''rS or establishing saloons or
l'ra'z'ng them, or voting for legislature
- !'euEc tIrrl il wicked. II is mol.
nicely a mistake or an error, bat il Is
desperately wicket. Neither can ouc
eNc''-e lis wie&"|@rss by SAYING that liz
VS. more conce'Uei about money O.
h'rH',ai questions or thl, many Others
HEl many eEccl!ent nlcR. as we'll a. so
loon~ seaeg@ add their pstrons voted this
Wy. TIE rn'nher engaged in & crime
or s:n does Nh eject the personal guilt
II; each. LIST Ia, learn our individual
Te>ypms'bi'ity fox the liquor traffic.
IRIS, {. Ii, L.