The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-08-28

want to ask you simple question
Is it compliment or an insult for
a man to step up to you, look you In
the eye and say:
"My friend, you are weakling;
you are incapable of choosing for
yourself between good and evil; you
need a legal muzzle to keep you from
becoming a hog? / have selected my
self to act as your guardian.
This is exactly what prohibition
say to every man and every woman.
The whole prohibition contention is
based upon the idea that the citizen
is a child and needs guardian.
Every dry parade exemplifies this con
ceptiOn and illustrates the child idea
of citizenship. There will be float
containing a number of little children
in charge of grown person or a
guardian who. is there to see that the
kids do not gouge each others eyes
out with their banners and tin horns.
When a man fights the world for a
Job and earns a dollar, that dollar
is his by every law of God and man.
If he spends it wisely he reaps re-
ward. If he spends it foOlishly he
suffers the consequence. But this ex-
perience is necessary to the develop
ment of his manhood. Of course, it
may sometimes work an injury to mis-
wife and children, but nothing OF
value is ever won or retained without
suffering to some. They also suffer
when he makes a bad investment in
land, stocks or inventions, or puts
his money in bank that fails. But
this right inherent in all men is para
mount to the rights of a wife anC
children who happen to be excep
; tions. No other man can tell you
} what you shall do with your money
and not insult your intelligence.
made that statement in speec one
! time and a minister sprang to hi;
feet and shouted at the top OF hi:
voice:
How about a mans wife,"
And / yelled back at him in thu
same tone: you let that mans wife
alOneE
When he recovered from the . locK
/ | said to the gentleman:
III YOU have a wife and children o
YOUR own, you have a lifetime job. ]
is an insult to any other man, rich o
; poor, for you to assume for on
l moment that he does not love hi
wife and children as well as you low
1 yours, or is just as capable Of tak
4 ing care of them"
. The child idea of citizenship is al
surd. reject it. For 1873 years w
= have from Fourth of July platform
: declared the American citizen to b
a sovereign king The king doe
: admits that he needs one is compt
4 tent to act as the guardian or anothcl
= If any man is to act as my guardia
q | want MIN to get his appolntmen
q in a court of record, according to la
and give a good and sufilclent pon
II for the faithful performance OF III
! duty in attending to my business.
= fake your choice between the chill
idea and the king idea of America
. citizenship. We who oppose pronlb
\ ton look upon every citizen as
= sovereign. AS sovereign citizens
= this republic we can boast a coat {
arms like the crowned heads of til
q old world. But our coat OF arm
q shows no barbaric design emblemail
: of despotism and oppression. But
- shows on the left a dove hove1ln
- over the broken fragments OF throne
~ and the shattered shackles of hurAa
g slavery; on the right the Vulcan
g labor beating swords into pillow snare
! and spears into pruning hooks.
g the center an eagle cleaving til
= clouds, bearing in its beak the mott'
, equal Rights to ALL" and in hi
- talons a streamer inscribed with tt
legend, Right is Might
Such was the conception OF OF
fathers who established the nation
who suffered at Valley Forge and die
at Bunker Hill This idea inspire
@ their valor on every battle field Of t
il Republic. They embodied this ide;
IF in the constitution of the Unite
9. States. i'm the Declaration of Ind
n pendence, and emblaZOned it in lie
4 tiers of living light on the flag {
If stars.
# This idea is worth fighting for
# worth dying to save. We oppose pr
hibition, not because we want to ru
saloons, but because prohibition
ri an insult to manhood. Our opponent
Al will try to prove that prohibition
IL not an insult to your intelligence
II denouncing the white slave traffic, {
p some other evil (which they will a
1t tempt to connect with the iquC
E. traffic. 1t would be just as reason
s. able to attempt to prove that waite
does not run down hill by affirmin
that a round square cheese exists
the moon.
y Destructive of
!, Human Equality.
Il Prohibition is not only an insult
N manhood, opposed to nature, and col
4 trary to reason, but it would destrO
is the equality of human rights. Al
y cording to the genius of our institl
S tions, you carry as much sovereign
e. ty under your hat as | carry unde
D. mine. In all our rights We are equa