The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-04-03
THE VITAL QUESTION.


the alleged agricultural paper pub
lished al Louisville. comes back
with a broadside at The Herald, in
answer TO our editorial OF February
81 issue. Let il not be forgotten
just what started this controversy.
which vas the publication in The
Herald Of a little editorial as fol-
! lows:
Is the little journal pub
lished at Louisville. called
. Our Country really P liquor
organ. as has been alleged
and surmised. or-is it?
Replying TO this paragraph. Our
Country" vent OF into the mazes Of
the Bible. trying to prove. by Holy
Writ. that liquor drinking and IT,
quor selling is botn endorsed and
advocated By the Scriptures. Its
last reply is in like vein. and it
again quotes several passages Of
Scripture 10 sustain its contention.
II has been aptly said that the
devil can quote scripture" which is
true. But the idea OF the Bible.
which stands for sobriety. correct
living and everything which per-
tains TO q sober life. being taken as
authority for the sanction o. pro-
miscuous liquor drinking and sell
ing. is preposterous. II is written
large in the Holy Book. If not al
ways in exact words. yet in mean
ing. TOUCH NOT" l. always
looks pitiful 70 see anybody take
the Bible and try 10 defend liquor .
drinking-the saloon propaganda.
By it.
The only ground on which Our
Country" bases its argument is that
people should drink liquor. but
KEEP SOBER. As well tell a child
that {, is az right for it to play
with fire, but it must never GET
BURNT. There is not one man in
a thousand who drinks liquor at all
nowadays who does not frequently
get drunk Whiskey is the kind Of
stuff that won't bear fooling with.
With the present brand of the prod
Ict, temperance has lost its mean
ng. The writer's of the Bible had
10 knowledge of the sort of stuff
hat is sold for an intoxicant nova
lays. But even with their superb
ial knowledge o. drunkenness un-
Ter the then prevailing use Of soft
vines, their warning is constant
Beware!" '
For every passage Of scripture /
hat Our Country" quotes as a |
and feeble support of
is stand for liquor selling and IL
uor drinking, We can-and did
how ii a dozen passages where |
'ROHIBITION-Iet It alone-is
ounded down the corridors of time I
n a voice of thunder. In fact, the 6
Bible fairly teens with its warning |
essons of misfortune and death !
which befell those who tempered
With liquor.
But all this is getting away from {
he original subject, to which we Z
fish TO hold our esteemed contem- e
orary-is Our Country a liquor ,
ryan or not? By its attitude for [
ears past and at present, and by I
Is editorial policy. It appears that
is, and We invite IT TO answer
his question. directly. or prove that .
is not, by any reasonable process.
it is not a wolf in sleeps cloth :
ng, let it show it's horns. ,
Closing its long effusion, evident
:, as ever, in behalf of the Liquor
rust, Our Country" asks If The
Ierald is in favor OF law to pro-
ibit the buying and using OF H.
uor in dry" territory. We say
es, provided Our Country" will
olemnly advocate the prohibition g
its surreptitious sale in those ter U
tories, its shipment into same, b
rom within or without the State. 1
But this controversy rests on V
My one which Our c
ountry" has not yet answered. '
1t or is it not a liquor organ, is I
led as a farm journal but backed a
y the liquor interests? Please c
ome out in the OPEN. Either plain
: affirm or deny.