Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-03-02
Why Wait Longer?

The spade of the areheologist
turns up evidence that in Ur of the
Chaldees before the days of Abra-
ham the traffic of in~toxicants was
dangerous to social order. The
very ancient Egyptian "Book of
the Dead" witnesses that the use
of them ruined the quality of man
hood, which Humboldt calls "The
finest fruit which earth yields up
TO its maker" After two millen-
NUNS of Christian history, so dis
serning a moralist as DR.. Holland
declares ''that it Is poisoning So
ciety at its very fountain head"
Abraham Lincoln called it "a can
Ger eating out the life of the ma
ton" Gladstone brought the in
dictment that "greater calamities
are inflicted upon mankind by in
temperance than by the three his
toric scourges-war, pestillence
and famine"
1t seems to have grown moro
diabolical and destructive with the
sweep of the centuries while our
civilization is increasingly sus-
ceptible to it's manifold evils.
Subversive of all morality and
every sacred interest of humanity,
it is a deadly antagonism to four
fundamental divine institutions
the Sabbath, the Family, the
Church and the State. 1t aggra-
Yates every other problem and Je-
strains the progress of all reforms.
1t obstructs all progress except the
progress of Generalization, de-
generation, misery, ruin and
crime.
1t stands justly indicted before
every tribunal of human reason
and conscience.
The voice of the physician and
surgeon, the dietitian and the ply
siologist are raised against the
liquor traffic. The verdict of the
political economist and the states
man, of the moralist and the re-
ligionist is against it.
The protest of the educator
philanthropist, criminologist and
reformer is against the incorrigiblt
atrocity of this traffic.
1t is indisputable that neither
church, nor state, nor homo MOI
school, nor any sacred and pre-
cious thing can co-exist with i
and not be harmed and endanger-
ed by it. No sane man ever sup
poses that it can ever be made tt
serve any good purpose. Seen il
its entirety it is a conspiracy anc
instruction against the authority
the righteousness and the love oil
Jesus Christ and His right to do.
minion among men. Who car
suppose that with the quickeneC
conscience of our times the ina
term of settlement between Chris
tian civilization and the liquo.
traffic will be the legal toleranc,
of that traffic? Why tolerate
any longer? 1t is impeached be
fore God, weighed in the balanc,
of justice and found wanting ever
OF a shadow of a right to live.
is time for a serious and sovereign
people ''to close in and kill"
When the French Commission
ers met Prince Bismarck in 1870 t.
negotiate terms of peace, he die
tated his terms and the Commits
sioners retired to their tent. Short
ly a tender-hearted messenge
came to Bismarck saying: "Th
French Commissioners are in thei
tent weeping and wish to know
you would modify their terms an
let them have Strasburg?"
The Iron Chancellor replied
"Strasburg is the key to our hous
and we must have it,"
1t is time for American either
to cease parlying with this monst,
and say with emphasis in the or
place that it will be heard, "tl
ballot box" prohibition is IL
key to our house, we must ha'
it,"and thus only can we termina
what has been the unendir
tragedy of our civilization,-T
amethyst.
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