The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-08-21

particular evil, and impose that remedy on the men
whom you believe to be suffering from the evil, with
out altering the men themselves, you 40 not destroy
the evil at allyou onlygive newer leases of life.
You have closed up one avenue through which the
evil has been wont to manifest i,sef but nasmuch
the evil exists STILL burning all the more fercey for
the artificial restraint you have thus put upon it,
through dozen other channels the evil rushe3, multi
plying its mischief hundred fold. What Shakspere
says of love is true of any supposed.evll habit 1.-The
you dam it up the more it burns. The more
merely external restraints you put upon 1t the ercer
is its life
This always does happen, and it always will happen.
1t has happened in this case read an extract from
the Boston Post time ago to the effect that Gov
Garceon, before the Maine temperance convention,
had called attention to the alarming increase of forms
of ntemperance in the state of Maine, which Prohibl
tionistS had entirely overlooked. The of tobacco,
he said was an increasing evil; chewing, and smoking
and snuff-dpping were becoming almost universal.
The of opiates creasng to an alarming eX-
tent. Many man he said, had appeared upon the
stand advocating temperance with bottle OF audan-
black drops in his pocket which was paving the
way for his feet to an early grave. Ladies carried
chlOrofom to mosten their handkerchiefs wtf- using
it instead of drink to aay their irrtabllity
Thus concusivey proving the truth Of what l have
said that if you arifcialy close through
which evil manifests itseli without seeking to
change the minds and habits of those who suffer from
the evil, through dozen other avenues the evil as
serts itself Prohibition reformers have failed every
way. They have not only failed in lessenng the par
ticular form of nemperance against which they have
d
en- other and mischievOus forms of intemperance
to grow up about them. Snuff-dipping chewing
smoking and opium eating, as forms OF lntemperance
belong to precisely the same category as the ntemper
ate use of intoxicating drinks. If it is justiable to
shut up the saloons and hang the saloon keepers II is
equally ustabe to shut up the drug stores and hang
the druggist. Fancy temperance orator announcing
the temperate drinker as "child of HE'LL the while
he has bottle of black drops in his pocket quid
of tobacco in his nasty mouth To what we to at
tribute the fact that opium eating IS so largely on the
increase in America? We find, for instance, confer
ence of druggists at StauntOn Virginia. reporting that
the ratio of increase of sales of opium in 1872 over the
previous year 92 per cent, while in 1911 over the
year preceding that the ratio OF increase was 90 per
cent From Rochester New York, it is reported that
opium drunkenness is practced to alarming extent
Cases are known there where the victims as much
as 430 grains of morphine day. At lthica, New
York. the same odus practice is extensively followed
The most prominent men anG women in social circles
are said to be its victims. Of course there COM
posite at work to produce this and all other of
the like kind o. evils. And have no doubt at all that
one cauSe---perhapS he main cauSeiS the social dis
repute into which the habit of taking Intoxicating
drinks, even temperately, has fallen. Travelling
good deal have occasion to dine very often at rail-
road depots and when so doing, invariably order, If
it is to be had glass of beer But notice that peo
pie look at me as though were hardened reprobate,
doing that of which every decent man ought to be
nightly ashamed. All that is 80 contemplate: In
Gods name let us be honest and above board. Ii we
serve the Devil let us honestly confess our allegiance
that men may know for what are. You
man reeling tpsy along the street in broad daylight,
and you at throw up your hands in horror and cry
out: what shocking reprobate. So shameless in
his wickedness, tool" So he is shocking reprobate.
So he is shameless in his wickedness BUTT is better
that man should get drunk in broad daylight, and ex
hbt his drunkenness in broad daylight than that he
should wait until night creep up dark alley and get
drunk at a saloon back door, You know the most of
the man who disdains concealment. You never can
know the worst of man who does syy and secretvey
what he fears to do openly. There is no gaugng
the depth of meanness within him. there is no measur
ing the mountainous of evil of which he is capabe
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