The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-10-20
An inner VIEW OF
A PENDING ISSUE

ard morality by I0W-tO regulate per-
sonal appetite and individual hab-
!, by the will Of the majority In
embryo TO resurrect and re-establish
the principle and affinity of church
and state-is quite as mischievous
dslusion as any OF those which have
gone before It. But, being based on
hoIf truth 1t IL, like all half truth
oppealing to sentiment. the more
misleading. Its fallacies are harder
70 expose to the simple and credu-
,ous who dwell apart and think the
coc,le of their little barnyards the
voice of the universe.
In the Kentucky counties, which
have Just obtained Prohibition, two
thirds of those thus arraying them.
calves at the polls believed they were
voting for temperance against intern.
nerance. whereas, which the event
will prove, they we're voting against
lawful procedure and just taxation
on the one hand and In favor Of out
,awry and no taxation on the other
hand.
II this were all Of 1t the consequen
ces might be In q sense at worst in
discriminate. The matters in dispute
could be left to future consideration
The result would probably take care
of itself. But, under the ministration
of unknowing though we'll meaning
moralism, set on by calculated lead
ership in quest Of far reaching and
more or less selfish ends, the spirit
Of fanaticism, often bordering on emo
tional insanity, is sown in the hearts
of men. This, the wide world over
reasons not, nor would believe tho
one should arise from the dead.
II is the spirit that in what we call
the Dark Ages could hurry a man
TO the stake because Of theologi'
cal tenet heralded for the moment
and in the vicinage as religion.
Where 1t was strong enough 1t set UP
the Inquisition and the Star Cham
her. 1t lighted the fires at Smith
field, 1t drove the Pilgrims from
England, and, when they, the crea
lions and victims Of intolerance, sci
up the same standard in New Eng
land, 1t drove Roger Williams and
his fellow freemen from the gibpe'
in Massachusetts, to the wilds OF
Rhode Island.
Through its "blue laws" in Connec
ticut ana its Prohibition laws IN
Maine 1t established smuggling as
profitable pursuit and Pharisaism at
a popular Characteristic. Nowhere
has it promoted virtue, diminished
vice, or made for any Of the graces
of life. Yet it could never have Hour
ished except by the consent OF peo
pie not wicked, or Of evil intention
1t was of these that Buckle, cited the
other day by the Courier journal
said:
They are not bad intentioned mel
who seek to enforce opinions which
they believe to be good. Still ies'
are they bad men, who are 30 re
gardless Of temporal consideration q
TO employ all the resources OF thei
power, not for their own benefit ou
for the purpose OF propagating idea
which they think necessary for tn
future happiness of mankind. Sue
men as these are not bad; they ar
only ignorant; ignorant Of the natur
of truth ignorant of the consequent
es of their own acts, But In moi
al point OF view their motives ar
unimpeachable.
That is to say as the Couriel
Journal observed when 1t made tn
quotation from the historian OF mot
ern civilization, the machine mao
Purltans of the vale of wooden nu
megs and the act of assembly rel
eionaries of the land Of Lorenzo DO
in whose image Prohibition woul
recreate Kentucky and the Kentuck
ans-are of those growers who san
the sugar and water the milk befor
they go to their prayers.
But the moral question is not alon
involved. The whole trend OF tn
miscalled temperance movement
Kentucky-the aim and end OF II
leaders-is, and from the first ne
been, state wide prohibition. Thu
means destruction Of no commo
kind.
If the whole of Main street shoul
awaken some morning to find ever
house between It's eastern and we
tern extremities burned to the groun
without a dollar of insurance Il
\ ruin would not be greater. Virgin
has few II any distllleries. Hem
the vote for prOhibition the 9th,