The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-08-28

hey refer to moral equality. Some
are good, some are bad, and some are
as the Englishmen say, lust 'alf and
'alf." They did not mean that all
men are created equally mentally, be-
cause some are wise and some are
otherwise. Our fathers meant by
that decoration that all men are equal
with reference to their inalienable
rights to life, liberty, the pursuit of
happiness, and voice in their own
government 1 mean by voice in
their own government the right to
govern themselvs collectively as
States and Nations, and to govern
themselves individually in the matter
of temperance. / also want to empha-
size the fact that by life our fathers
did not mean mere existence. You
can have existence and wear a pro-
hibition muzzle. You can have exist
ence and be in Jail. You can have
existence and be slave, but you can
not have liberty and prohibition.
When our fathers declared that all
men are created equal, this old world
was in darkness. Might made Right.
Every ship of state was a pirate
craft. Every ensign of sovereignty
bloody butcher, while Freedom was
chained to the dark, dungeon floors
of despotism, her white breast stain
ed with blood. At the declaration
that all men are created equal, light
broke through clouds, of darkness and
despotism, prison bars melted away,
shackles fell from bruised and bleed
ing limbs, and the human race rose
from it's knees, looked the sun in the
face, and commenced the mightiest
march of progress ever witnessed by
| the gods Show me the automobile,
the flying machine, the moving pict-
ure, wireless telegraphy, or any
great invention that excites the adj
miration of gods and men, and l will
show you the children of Freedom
and Human Equality.
Show me the rack, the stake, the
dungeon, the stocks, the thumb screw,
or any implement of torture or des-
potism, and l will show you the chill
dren of prohibition. We oppose pro-
hibition not because we want to get
drunk, but because prohibition would
destroy the equality of human rights
and turn the dial of Progress back
ward a thousand years.
BASED Upon
a False Premise.
Prohibition is not only destructive
of human equality, but its philosophy
rests upon a false foundation. The
whole contention is based upon q
II false premise When you argue from
false premise you may be as wise
as Solomon, but your conclusions will
be erroneous.
| There are two men in the liquor
, business. One in front of the bar, the
: other behind Which one of these
men is responsible for the liquor
J traffic? One is the cause and the
other the effect. If the man behin(
the bar is the cause, the liquor bust
ness can be destroyed by voting hin
out of business. But on the Other
! hand, if he is the effect and the maj
in front of the bar the cause, voting
him out of business will ouly change
the channel through which the de
) mand is to be supplied. | admit thai
, YOU can vote the man behind the bal
out of business, but l deny that yol
, can vote the man in front Of the bal
out of business. You can vote towr
| dry. but you cannot vote man dry
If the traffic in liquor is evil, which
; I deny. YOU could not cure the evil by
treating the effect instead of the
cause. The man in front is the cause
, the liquor dealer the effect. Our OPP
ponents will make a strong argument
against the evils of intemperance
But every argument against the abuse
of liquor is an argument for temper
/, ance, not prohibition. Our dry friends
are so hard for an argument in de
tense of prohibition that they are
| compelled to use argument agains
the abuse and seek to make it ap
plicable to the use of liquor. Theil
logic is absolutely unsound and ut
terly absurd You cannot apply any
argument against the use of thins
that is applicable only to it's abuse.
: When a physician treats the effec
instead of the cause of your sickness
you call him a quack. Still l heard
of doctor like that who once saved
mans life. The poor devil sent fol
him and the doctor would not come
We reject prohibition not because
we want to run a brewry, but be
: cause the whole contention rests upor
false premise. Our dry friends will
try to prove that the prohibition con
tentiOn does not rest upon false
premise because some men drink tt
excess, some saloons are bad, certain
people who drink are poor and others
commit crimes. This is like trying
to establish the innocence of a muir
'derer by convicting some other man
of theft. His logic is unsound ant
utterly absurd.
An Immoral
Proposition.
: Not ouly does the whole prohibi
ton and Anti-Saloon League conten
ton rest upon a false premise but il
is an immoral proposition. / know
they claim to have monopoly on all
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