The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1915-09-17
BIG SANDY NEWS.

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constitutional, mental, moral and bod
lily defects whether they consist in
temperament, habits, predisposition, Ill
health, or feeble intellect.
We feel that crises Of immense
J We feel that "a crisis Of immense
arrived II is up to the good people Of
Kentucky" to settle the question wheth
er this land overshadowed by the All
mighty shall belong to the drunkard
and the most heartless of all tyrants-
the drunkard maker.
The whisky trade" as we have seen,
depraves and curses all who engage in
it, II destroys property, ruins morals
and units our citizens for honest and
industrious pursuits. 1t multiplies pau
pers, maniacs and criminals; increas-
es taxation, and endangers the lives
! and property Of our citizens. 1t furn
ishes schools of vice and places of re-
sort for the idle and dissipated, and
! holds in constant jeopardy the peace OF
society. II pollutes the halls of legis-
lation and turns the religion of the
Bible into fable"
II whisky had been necessary to the
growth and well being of our bodies
we should not only have been Great
for water, but He who implanted such
a desire would have created alcohol or
some OF its alkaloids to crafty it. Yet,
no such creation is found among His
! works. He created sugar but whisky is
formed by its destruction Man has
sought out for himself many inven-
tons. the most pernicious of them all
is the transformation Of delicious,
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poison.
According TO the harmony which ex-
lists in and throughout all the works
of the Creator He has employ supplied
us with the means OF this qualification,
and His supplies are the very best and
safest. The Creator has given us salt,
mustard, pepper, spice, cloves and
cinnamon, to all of which we may add
tea and coffee hot and cold. These and
other natural productions of like
kind are acceptable to our tastes, sal
utary in their influence, and do not in
general produce effects which lead to
their excessive use. II taken beyond the
necessary limits, the consequence is
but a simple injury to health. Alas,
that man had not been content with
what wise and bountiful Providence
had created, that he should have sub
stituted the productions of science and
art for those of nature, his own inven
ton rather than the creations of God
This substitution was and Is the great
: error Of the human race; source of
calamities, crimes and premature old
age, and ofttimes ends in frightful
death.
My friends are you one Of those who
has undertaken to mend the works of
God? II So you call that which He pro-
nounced very good not good, not
sufficient, not perfect. All, we call upon
you to look at the enormity of your
presumption, at the fatal effects of
your habit, upon your own peace and
happiness, and at the influence of your
example upon others.
All the world feels and admits the
power of fashion. We have a natural
desire to initiate others. Every day we
conform to what happens to be in
: vogue; we adopt customs because they
are customary things, and pursue
them because others lead us on.
We see so many on the way it seem
, eth right to u.s." and ii may seem so to
them, yet the end thereof may lie in
the regions of death. There is not a
, more dangerous rule of life than to
follow thoughtless and giddy throng
, knowing whittier they are going, with
, out looking into the desires which urge
i, them on.
II Won are a Young, temperate drink
er. let this truth sink deep into your
heart. and Won will then study careful
. ly the prudence and morality of your
. seniors in temperate drinking, and their
way will no longer seem right to you.
IL YOU are an old temperate drink
err. reflect seriously on the bad effects
/ OF your example on the young. Age
claims respect from youth, and they
, should in return bestow upon it the
, blessing of a good example, not the
curse OF a bad one, But, alas, how Of.
r ten this social law is violated. When
the time shall come the young will uni
yersally yenerate the old, and the old
: as universally seek to guide the young
I into the WAYS of wisdom which have
| ever been and will ever be, the paths
of pleasantness and peace this dim
med and erring world of ours will put
= IN n new face, and shine with bright
4 or Iuster in the moral universe.
There are those who are foolish
n enough to fancy that the intellectual
powers are strengthened and develop
, "A nv the use of whisky hence they