The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-08-28
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your son that he shall no longer keep
company with certain young lady.
Issue your imperial prohibition de-
cree in thunder tones, and if that boy
amounts to a tinker'S dam, he will
have that girl or die. If he does not
amount to tinker's dam, | congrat-
ulate the girl. The thing in man that
makes prohibition failure, makes
manhood a success. If you could
make prohibition a success, you
would make man failure.
Where did your boy get the natural
impulse to reject, resist and defy pro-
hibition? He got it from you. You
would do the same thing and so
would /. Did We get it honestly?
Go back with me to the Garden of
Eden. Start at the beginning. I'm
less the Darwinian theory is true,
Adam and Eve were the first of the
human race. They were innocent
land perfect Unlike us, they did not
have long lines of ancestors, reaching
backward to dark ages with inherited
weakness, wickedness and sin.
God placed these perfect people in
a beautiful Eden, where there was
not a single excuse for going wrong.
The birds sang night and day, the
flowers bloomed on every hand, and
when the storm struck the trees they
made music like thousand harps.
But one day there stood in their
presence-not an anti-Saloon League
leader with his self-assumed au-
fhority-not a detective with A
in his hip pocket-but there stood in
their presence the Omniponent God
who flung a hundred million blazing
suns into space and holds the Uni
verse in the hollow of his hands.
This Omnipotent God, the embodi.
ment of all authority, said to our an.
cestors, these perfect people:
'Of every tree of the garden thou
mayest freely eat"
Up to the point of freedom all trees
looked alike to Adam and Eve. They
had no special curiosity concerning
the fruit of any particular tree, but
when the Lord added:
But of the fruit of the tree which
is in the midst of the garden We shall
not eat of it, neither shall We toucf
1t lest We die" the curiosity of these
perfect people was aroused.
What was the effect of this frs
prohibition decree issued by the Su
preme Authority to our perfect an
-cestors in Paradise? Why, wheI
Adam and Eve found that the Gar
den of Eden had gone prohibition, i
was a question of who would get t,
the tree first, and Eve beat Adam t,
it. She had to go some, too, believ,
me.
Our opponents may argue that al
this proves that God was a Prohibi
fionists or that he made a mistake. |
proves nothing of the kind.
This story in the Bible is given t,
us to illustrate the folly, fallacy, AM
inevitable failure of prohibition whel
applied either to the appetites or tn
natural rights of man.
Had God been a prOhibitioniSts H
would have built a fence around TIL
tree. Had God been a prohibitionisi
He would have prohibited the snake
Our opponents will endeavor t
prove that prohibition is not contrar
to nature by pointing out the evil
of intemperance. 1t would be just a
reasonable to attempt to justify inf
deity, by proving the existence o
hyprocisy. They will tell you tina
the devil is opposed to prohibition
This is not true. Prohibition CAV
the devil his first opportunity.
A Menace
To Manhood.
Prohibition is not only contrary t
reason and opposed to nature, but
rs a menace to the development O
true manhood. 1t is only by exercis
ing freedom of choice that one ca
develop the faculty of self contro
Prohibition is destined to rob men O
this freedom, hence it would proven
the development of manhood's highes
faculty.
You can no more develop mora
force without exercising pei soma
liberty than you can develop physica
strength without exercising you
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