The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-11-20

:, his fellows and in any way Injuries lif
0 for the sake of securing some selfisl
= end regardless Of the right or wron'
e involved. is of the spirit of the pigge
= and his tribe, and the spirit of thu
|. pigger and his tribe will never be ov
4 ercone till the spirit of men that az
!. willing to live on low plane and fo
E self, has been changed. 1t is the spirit
r that the saloon keeper is of, that an
D after this morning and that spirit is ii
t more lives and encouraged by more
, persons than the few upon whom we
r heap our rebukes and invectives il
? our temperance speeches.
5 This spirit is fourishing more than
: we suspect, and wherever it thrives
: and is consented to Iii .he harts O:
} men, it is encouraged in others and
, will find some way of expressing itself
peculiar to that individual and his en-
: vironment. There are many forms
but all are of the same spirit. Who
. is Of the same spirit as the men who
are closely conencted with the liquor
business? Who? One almost hest
tates to tell the truth here. That man
or woman who loves luxury and ease
and faunt them in the face of others
with no thought of the extreme and
abnormal cravings they will arouse in
their souls for the same things, and
who say Of their fellows as an early
railroad magnate said, the public be
damned; the man who hordes
wealth from any source only for him.
self and his immediate family, these
are of the same spirit as the brewer
and drinker.
That spirit that begrudges taxes
and complains they are high with
readiness and willingness to reduce
them by limiting the educational priv
ileges of our youth or by denying the
poor some public assistance, is not
of another realm from the one that
would sell booze for money.
The man who loves money so that
he is domineering and mean in his
relation to others, who is known by
those who are close to him as one
who wants just all he can get for
what he has to sell and schemes and
insists on paying the very least pos
81 lie for what he would buy is pos
sessed of the same kind of demon
found in our whiskey men, only label
ed differently The man who cuts a
potato in two Or always masures with
the underside of the rim in selling
milk or grain, is governed by spirit
just like the kind that r0bs little chill
dren by selling drink to their fathers.
That sister who hires woman who is
so unfortunate as to have to sell her
labor to those of us who should do
our own work, and recommends her
because she works so cheaply, when
| the highest Of wages are too cheap
for woman who bends over the tub
every day partakes of the kind of spirit
that uses others for It's own comfort
without asking what the result is go
ing to be for the other, and this is just
Cne spirit that keeps the manufacture
and sale Of intoxicating drinks going
These examples might be increased,
but you see my point.
The liquor business and every other
death destroying business are related
and they have one and the same
source. There is only one logical
conclusion in regard to all the blights
on humanity today, and that is they
are all due to the failure of men to
strike for a high type Of moral integ-
rity in the self
The brewer and his agents are not
in class by themselves, they belong
to the same class and partake of the
same spirit that every man or woman
does, that make no pretense Of bring
ing the whole life into harmony with
the moral law and allowing no selfish
ambition or appetite to have the right
of way. TO speak more plainly, if
you and l have asked the privilege of
compromising with evil to satisfy our
| greed, our pride, our ambitions or our
appetites, no matter how the public
may class us, we are actually in the
same category with the man who
! wrecks homes through his lust, or the
one who vends liquor from the back
alley, so far as the ultimate explana-
ton Of our conduct is concerned. We
| are Of one spirit and that puts us in
the same class This may not have oc.
CURED to you before, but when we
cater to the selfish ambitions and ap-
petites in the future, we should know
that this is the spirit we are Of.
There is much that could be said in
favor of the enactment of laws which