Weekly journal-miner., 1914-09-16
(From Sundays Daily)

McNally in last Sundays paper in terested me greatly. With some things the doctor said am in sym pathy. The proposed prohibitory amendment has undoubtedly its weak points, as all new and drastic laws are apt to have, until they have been tried out and corrected.
 The weakest point in this amend ment IS its failure to make a spe- cihc exception to the use of wine in the Holy Sacrament, for taken literally it does exclude such a use. And yet, as Judge A. C. Baker has pointed out in his decision, the spirit and intent of the law make possible a more liberal interpretation. This, however, ought to be made definite in the amendment, and l believe, ii it passes, a change to this effect will undoubtedly be made as soon as possible Meantime, I for my part, am not worrying about it. l am confident that no officer or court of law in Arizona will inter fere with any priest at the altar, or any Christian minister, administer ing the sacrament, and 1 am willing myself to take the liberal interpre- tation of the law until it is revised.
 In regard to other parts of the doctors letter, 1 find myself in de- cided disagreement. His arguments are so humorous as barely to war rant being taken seriously. The whole principle of human liberty, or personal liberty as it is usually called, has surely long since been superseded by the more Christian and democratic principle of civil liberty and responsibility, as MT. Chain so ably pointed out in one of his lectures. My liberty has no rights when its exercise i'll any way intcrfcres with the welfare of my fellowmen. The first murderer recorded in Holy Writ was practi- cally an exponent of personal liO- erty when he disclairned any re sponsibility for his brother, and the "Heresy of Cain" has cursed the world. It is not question simply of whether some men drink to excess, therefore no one should be permitted to drink at all" or whether the human race must re- serve its inherent tastes, lest some wild-eyed jay get on a jag" It is a far deeper question than that. It is a question of dcep-rooted evil which has blighted humanity for generations. If the inherent taste of the human race is for liquor as the doctors words imply, then God save the human race! And God help us to do our part to reverse" this taste which liquor has thrust upon us
 The doctor refers to the danger of the abuse of strawberry short cake and sliced cucumbers and the like, and it is big danger no doubt and causes much harm, but the doctor himself, as a man of good sense, knows that this danger is inhnitesimal compared to that of intemperancc and of the organiZ- cd liquor traffic, and the unspeak able evils they have produced. In- deed, if it were true that straw berry short-cakc and sliced cucum- bers, etc, numbered its victims, in nocent and guilty, indirect and di- rect, by the hundred millions, were responsible for thrce-fourths of the crimes committed for generations, filled our prisons, crowded our in sane asylums, wrecked young man hood and young womanhood, cor rupted politics, preceded poverty, dis ease and all manner Of wretched- ness and retarded human progress, as incompetence and its mother, the saloon power, have done for gen erations, then by all means should we rise up and demand the absolute prohibition Of such viands forever even if some of us were able to control our use of these things and would have to sacrifice our per sonal liberties to have them prohib- ited.
 Truly St Paul held a noble view of this matter when he said: Tt is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine. not to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth,' and again "If meat maketh my brother tc stumble, l will cat no flesh for evermore. that make not my broth CT stumble"
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