The log cabin Democrat., 1912-08-02
FOX STATE WIDE
 PR0HjBIIION JOHN DUNAWAY WRITES GIVES MANY REASONS FOR PASSAGE OF STATE WIDE
 MEASURE.
Editor Log Cabin Democrat:


 The time is rapidly approaching when the voters of this state are to decide by their ballots very import ant question-a question not only inn portant to themselves but to the ris- ing generation of boys and girls. The decision at the polls in September next will settle the states policy on the whiskey traffic for years to come. Every man ought to vote intelligently and unselfishly, and in so doing. he ought to view it from the Creators standpoint of all-Does the sale of ardent spirits honor God and dispose the users to better g.lori fy His as their Creator? If it does. then they ought to vote against state wide prohibition, for in voting against it they would be doing Gods will and would be serving Him. Ev- ,ery mans life is but the expression of Gods favor and should be used to His glory in every form that we are capable of. To satisfy the lusts of the flesh and the eyes and the pride of life are the only channels through which we may go counter to Gods will. If We find that the use or sale of whiskey satisfies the lust of the flesh, We may be sure that we are on the wrong road. Then, again, it is to the best interest of every man in the state that his boys and girls grow up to maturity side by side with his neighbours boys and girls sober, hon. est, educated and refined. If the vot- CT decides that these accomplishments can best be attained by the use and sale of whiskey, then he ought to vote against statewide proposition, or even against local option, for the in- Iterests of our children in fitting themselves for usefulness and honor- ed citizenship should be the aim of every father in the state.
 If the voter decides that the use and sale of whiskey would increase the costs of criminal prosecution and at the same time increase the number of false oaths sworn in our whiskey trials or increase the number of di- vorce suits caused by the excessive use of whiskey, then the voter ought to vote against any measure that would increase these burdens on the taxpayer and helpless women and children. If the voter decides that the fumes of whiskey, the horrible oaths sworn, the shameless vulgarity used and to be seen around any sa- loon is calculated to inspire his boy or girl with high ideals of the only crea- ture God has condescended to make in His own image, then he ought to vote against a statewide bill. The temperance forces have committed some blunders in the temperance move in this state, in our opinion, but It IS too late to cavil about details, for the fight is on and every man who favors the curtailment of the whiskey traffic must lay aside the past and unite in their efforts and vote to re- lieve Arkansas of one of her greatest drawbacks. One of the first things I remember reading in my boyhood days in Webster's old blue-back spell ing book was that no man can make a good plea for a dram. While this is so, it is even more so to say that no man can make a good plea for the sale of that stuff that debauches so- ciety and degrades many helpless vic tims to life they would gladly quit if the temptation was removed far from them.
 There is the question of finance and personal rights to be considered in vote of this kind, but can cities and towns and the state hope to pros per and perpetuate their existence with money, every dollar of which is stained with blood drawn from the very life of some of our noblest and most promising young men of the state? As to personal rights, no man has the right to do wrong, and it is certainly wrong for the state to i- cense men to do wrong for the sake of a paltry sum of money that costs the state many times more money to prosecute whiskey cases in the courts than the amount paid the state for the privilege of selling it.
 JOHN DUNAWAY, SIR.