Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-21
A TEMPERANCE SERMON 2. s.::, ::. ;:::; ::::''

drunkards than we can run rsttis- snake ranches without raising poi son" One might as well say thss we cannot run banks without raising embezzlers; or railways without ca countering accidents; or eueumbers and cabbage without tho risk of cholera morbus, the thief, ths wreck. the bellyaehe, hke the drunkard, bs ing the exception. Shall we have no more fiscal institutions, no more iines of transportation, no more truck gar dens and no more cakes and ale Perish the thought, for what has been and is in Bavaria can be in Kentucky or anywhere elss where the rule of sanity and moderation is observed
 We think we are free people. We agree that the world is too much governed. Yet nowhere is individ ual liberty so assailed as in ths United States. The prohibition wave, now happily subsiding, was a men ace to free institutions. Thoughtfui people are beginning to see thaS there are worse evils than the drink evil; evils moro subversive of the character of nation, because moro general and pervasive, less obvious and reachable. The drunkard is rsn. ally in evidence. He may be dealf with. It is otherwise with the vary. ing forms of personal and poiitica! corruption. Virtue is self-resistanes to vice, not enforced obedience to drastic regulation. Morality is rela tive. That may be moral in oss country which is immoral in another country. Circumstances alter cssea.. Time and place must be regarded This is strictly exemplifed by ths Hofbrauhaus of Munich.
 Tho "'eommon good, !" about which we hear so much, like tho general welfare" clause of the constitution, has been worked to death. The "eommon good" is the veriest sb- straction. It is not everywhere tho same as one sees here in Bavaria. Ia has its variants. Who is to decids what is the "eommon goodf" Tins was when the Church, or rather its close corporation of ruling prelate-. alone decided. The "common good'- was their belief, or pretended b. lief, in prescribed religious dogma. The "eommon good" embraced cer- tain customs, manners and clothing deereed by canon law as orthodox The penalties assessed against ths delinquent varied from hanging ts burning, from the rack to the thumb screw. They were applied by which ever Church party found itself in the ascendant.
 After many centuries of strenuous trial in the effort to make men good by force of arms and tortures, both costly and q ghastly failure, the self ordained agents of God sowing tho world in blood and flame, were sent to the rear and the doctrine of tol- eration-the bedrock of all freedom. of all enlightenment, of all good government-was established meas urably throughout Christendom, bus absolutely as the founders thought in the United States.
 This the prohibitionists would SC, aside and nullify. To do SO they ny in the face of Heaven itself. Tread ing the eloisters of the past hers in Europe, or travelling the thor oughfares of the present at home. know but one torch to light tho way, and that is the Spirit of the Man of Galilee, whose teaching from first to last was at war with force, appealing to the better nature and the reason of man, not his brutal passions and eombative parts; and. taking this for my guide, I cannot help thinking tho American proh5- bitionist impious and irreligio1s in his dogmatism, and at the same tins as unwise and undiscTiminating iH his worldly methods.
 I might as well rail at God fos bringing sin and disease and deatA into the world and seek to encon- pass them by sumptuary legislation. Men may be made hypocrites by law, but never saints. Religious truth has been the rather obseured and re- tarded than accelerated by tbeologis controversy.
 Expressive agencies culninate i. reactions. Radical puritanis1n in England was succeeded by the 6e- bancheries of the Restoration; and Prohibition laws in the United States have not only not diminished drunk enness, but they have brought in their train scandals and evils quite as hurtful to the community at large as drink has brought to that limited section of the community given over to the excessive use of intoxieants that is, eoptempt for law, evasions Of L. T-- Al