The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-26
Get Rid of Them


Rev. J. NJ. Afford pastor Of the Methodist
church, delivered temperance lecture last Sun
day night, at the Methodist church, which was
one of the most fluent lectures delivered IN this
town in some time and will be the means OF bear
ing much fruit, in running down the culprlts that
insists on defying the prohibition law, by selling
this home destroyer in this midst. He hit his sub
ject in high spots, and held the undivided atter-
ton Of his auditors Mr.. Afford brought out the
point about the whskey drummer coming to our
town or any dry territory for the purpose Of So
Letting and taking orders for whiskey, which is a
violations of the law and the guilty one should be
turned up and dealt with by the law, by being Civ
en- the limit, and in this way the eager deliers OF
the law can and will be eXterminated. TO conceal
behind the doors these wrong doors, places the
one that wears the shield in the same boat that
the seller occupies. He is about as guilty as the
bootleggers is he not?
We publish below extracts from Rev. Afford
lecture delivered Sunday night and if the cooper
alton of the law abiding citizens of Columbia and
Caldwell parish is met with, there will be no
trouble in riding this community of these vloators
Of the law
Does prohibition prohibit? If not why not?
Prohibition is either q success or it is failure Ii
a failure who are responsible for the failure?
Those who believe in it or those who are opposed
to it.
This is a subject that is string the mind of
the public as never before. We are on the verge
of great moral upheavel Throughout the en-
ho fot
theme of these eventfu times The nefarious
of the rum trade with increasing momentum
greats upon the moral sensibities of all right
thinking people.
'Whiskey is either good thing or it is a bad
thing. If good thing it should be kept among
us and protected and endorsed by all the people.
If it is bad thing it should be done with once
for all, and all people who believe in good govern
ment and good morals should be aggressive in
helping to eXtermnate this giant evil. God does
not require us to refrain from these things that
are harmless Yet he say, Wine is mocker,
strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not Wise-Look not upon the wine
when it is red when it giveth it's color in the cup,
when it moveth itself Alright at the last it biteth
like serpent and stingeth like an adder"
The three principle objections to prohibi-
ton are: O 1t does not prohibit (2) We are
deprived ofssrevenue. 60 People will drink any
how. First, 1t does prohibit where the people
want it to. Any community that has moral SEN
- tment strong enough to enact a law forbdding
the sale of strong drink ought to be strong
enough morally and otherwise to see that said
law is enforced. We should demand our rights.
we have1a law and this law will be effective if we
will use it. Second. The revenue coming to any
town or community as privilege to sell liquor is
the dearest money that ever has gone into any
treasurer. 1t would be better to license man to
run den of vipers in your community because
whiskey destroyes both the soul and body.
Third If people will drink anyhow, then we
should not become party to Cher sins and en-
courage them in wrong course by placing drink
in easy reach of them. Prohibition means PRO-
lection! 1t safeguards The blind tiger is a
child of the licensed saloon. The liquor dspens-
ed in some tiger" under the cover of night was
purchased at some legalized saloon. That man
who would stealthily Turk around and solicit ord
ers for whiskey in prohibition community is a
traitor to the government and those who make
such thing possible by patronage are in the same
category"
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