The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-09-04

worse than ever was---I never could govern myself
but am determined to agltate for law that shall
govern them-l will accuse them at the bar OF Cod
they the offal of humanitythey not worth the
powder that will puff them into hell! Let us prayp
Now if such men have been saved by the pledge
and made clean and decent citizens, let them be thank
full for that fact and modesy hold their peace 1t is
as indecent in them publicly to proclaim their past
vices it is indecent in them publicly to proclaim
their present fedged virtues. protest against
the wretched habit OF making those men who were IN
the gutter yesterday the public Of men who
never in the gutter at all. protest against the
right these men assume, who never could govern
themselves, of governing everybody else who can
The Prohibition movement is not succeeding, but
the temperate movement is. Seventy five years ago it
was gentlemany thing to get drunk today, the gen.
tlemany thing is to remain SOBER The better educat-
ed and better to do classes OF today are almost entirely
free from that vice which was almost universal
amongst the same classes two generations ago. what
has wrought the change? Not Prohibition, but
qulckened moral sense cOmpeter education, the slow
cultivation of more elevated tastes these things have
wrought the change in the social life of the wetcdo
classes. Bring the forces to bear the working
classes and the social results will follow Great
social reforms are not to be achieved all at HUI
manity advances by little and little. The farmer drops
the seed into the ground by little and little the rain
drops fallby little and little the seed begins to feel
stirring within it strange new nfe by little and little
the tender blade shoots upby little and little the ear
of corn assumes its full shapebv little and little the
in the is ripened-and the grand result of
all these little processes the fat full corn from
all tne Mills, ana the universal prayer OF humanity
answered. -"Give us our daily bread" So do great
deavors and so do vast reforms gradually to ru-
ton in the world. | do not despair for humanity. l
know there is more than enough in our social life to
make honest men weep and even the angels sad. 10
the gnant words of Shakspere eve still play
the fool with time, whilst the spirits of the wise sit in
the clouds and mock us. Think how many thousands
there are whose lives are one long lingering deatha
death of the intellect of the heart and of the SOUL
Think how many children, formed for happy laughter
and gambos in the sunshine, doomed to wither
ed manhood, hopeless youth, and premature old
age Think what wealth of wOmanhOOd flows from
all green hills to find polluted home in our great
Cities thence to breathe out moral and physical cona
gion throughout the soci.l state Robust workers
needed-workers with lions courage, womans gen
teneSS and martyrs ZEAL Is 1t nothing to feel that
pass through life adorn and dignity it? that,
perform the functions Of existence existence is
made by us grander and more beautiful thing?
Those who thus live, truly enjoy life. The stars
have for them holier silence philosophy has for them
deeper meaning; history has for them dviner lessons
They hold within their hands the key that will eVent-
good it is to rear for ourselves such useful life life
that when death shall have taken away the ScafOldng
will be loved for its virtues and emulated for its utility
life that, when the keepers of the house have
rembed, when the strong men have bowed themselves
when the silver cord forever loosened and the golden
bowl forever broken will it to be said of u.s.
modern poet has said of ancient sage: "He taught
reformed and humanized his age" Living such life
we shall do something towards bringing the time
"When the GLAD slave shall at his feet lay down
His broken chain, the tyrant lord his crown,
The priest his book, the conquerer his wreath,
And from the lips OF truth one mighty breath
Shall, like whirdwnd, scatter in the breeze
The whole dark pile of human mockeries,
Then shall the reign Of mind commence on earth,
And starting fresh as from second birth,
Man. in the sunshine of the worlds new spring,
Shall walk transparent like some holy thing!