Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-02-13
SECOND DAY WITH
FLYING SQUADRON
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Between vice and virtue there can
be no conservative, no neutral posi-
ton; between Ged and the devil no
Hague tribunal.
The preacher who has not discov-
cred that the saloon is a bad thing
ought to exchange his clerical robes
for overalis, and go 20 blowing with a
mule, which would be doubtful society
for the mule.
He is not quite a man who cannot
hold the reins and the whip hand over
his own life.
The slayer Of the man who inyades
the sanctity Of home is seldom pun
ished. What should be done with the
drunkard who daily insults his own
wife and humiliates and d!sgraces his
own children?
III We church men had saved all Of the
ammunition we have fred at each other.
over water and predestination ana fore
ordination and apostasy and apostolic
succession and church government, and
a hundred other things that do not mean
everything in this world. and that will
not mean anything in the world to come
If we had saved all the bullets We have
shot at each other and had turned our
guns on the enemy we'd have had the
devil on the run a long time ago. We
are done now with such fratricidal war,
and the saloon must go.
The man who stays away from the
polls because he does not wish to lose
the time it takes to go and vote, sells
his ballot for the price Of a days labor,
or less.
THE man who may vote and won't
vote ought to be denied the right to vote
or. better still, ought to be compelled
to mind the baby while his wife votes.
'Iniquity is essentially weak Difficult
as this crusade against the saloon Is, the
difficulties are vastly over-estir,ated.
Vice is big bragsart, but 1t a cow
ard, quick to fee before organized and
resolute virtue.
PITY the puny pulpiteer who perishes
in plattudes; who aims at nothing and
hits It; who wastes his energies on the
glories OF the New Jerusalem or the sins
Of old jerusalem, the while that he
is automatically dumb about the evils Of
his own city.
"A cowardly Christian is an anomaly
! ne u1du WIN ndS IOO Will MN mere aQC
who expects to be with God hereafter
has no right to the luxury OF a white
feather.
1T is to the civic Incidence Of the up
right and not to the political industry Of
the vicious, that legalized iniquity owes
its continued existence.
1.-THE Flying Squadron believes that
there are no necessary evils, that If a
thing is evil it is not necessary. and If
a thing Is necessary it Is not evil
The line OF least resistance Is never
the straight and marrow way.
Thirty per cent. Of the eligible voters
Of America never vote. Ask the venal
ward boss which 30 per cent 1t is. He
knows
THE man who buys a ballot Is no bet
ter than the creature who sells one: and
both ought to be summarily disfran-
chised.
THE ancient heresy that Christian
men. particularly ministers Of the gospel,
ought to keep out Of politics. even when
moral issues are involved. has well
served Satan to frighten some feeble
church folk nearly to death. Exactly the
contrary 10 true. The man who would
buy q ballot or sell one has no business
In politics. and the honest and unpur-
chasable voter has no business out of
politics, particularly when the issue Is
one Of right and wrong" s.s4--
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