The Detroit times., 1916-03-03
EDITORIAL PAGE

l tOn.
The truth OF the matter is, and the
defect i'm the Model License League 5
point in this instance is, the Anti-Saloon
league never has and probably never will
contend that where wine is mentioned
in the Bible it was only unfermented
grape Juice or anything else but wine
UPON WHICH 1T WAS POSSIBLE
FOR ONE TO GET DRUNK AND
BEASTLY DRUNK.
Which fact undoubtedly accounts for
what the Bible. the book of God and not
the campaign literature of the National
Model License league, says against 1t
(Habakkuk 2:15):
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour
drink that putteth thy bottle TO him. and
maketh him drunken also, that thou mayest
look on their nAkedneSs
That is what the Bible says in judg-
ment Of the Chaldeans, without revision
anywhere, and without substitution any
where
The Gilmore letter failed to quote that
verse.
II bears too plainly upon the issue
right here in Michigan.
Neither does the Gilmore letter con-
tain any reference to the verse in st.
Matthew HAP:
Apd whosoever shall give to drink unto
one of these little ones cup of cold water
only in the name of a disciple. verify ! say
unto you, he shall in no wise lose his re-
ward
This verse calls attention too patty to
the substitution the creators of the Ma
tional Model License League have made
for "cold water"
Gilmore has revised the Bible, or the
law of the Almighty, in the hope of per-
petuating an iniquitous traffic which re-
spects neither the law of God nor the
law of mamie could not be expected to
revise it to snow the traffic up.
The Anti-Saloon league recognizes
that the Bible refers frequently to wine
upon which men could get drunk; with
which they could deaden their senses
and drug their minds.
There were beasts in human garb in
the times of which the Bible is the
chronicle, the same as there are beasts in
human garb today, in this time, when
there are men who are willing, for the
money there is in it, to cater to the
beast in men.
The Anti-Saloon league, we feel quite
positive. does not contend that it was
unfermented grape juice that was served
at Belshazzar's profane feast, when
the golden vessels were taken out of the
temple of the house of God, even Is the
president of the National Model License
League. in behalf of booze, takes pas
sages out of His book, and the king, and
his princes, his wives and his concubines,
drank in them.
There was wine at this feast that was
not unfermented grape juice, the same
as there is beer and whisky and poisoned
whisky today, and while this feast was
in progress the fingers of mans hand
came forth and wrote upon the wall.
"In that night was Belshazzar, the
king of the Chaldeans, slain
The National Model License League is
busy writing letters to newspapers in
Michigan that carry booze advertising
and have to print the letters, because
state wide prohibition is an issue in
Michigan.
The brewer and the distiller, the
wholesaler and the retailer. are Belshaz-
zars who have sat long at their unholy
feast.
This letter-this work of sacrilege to
which they resort in their desperation
is their countenances changed, as Bel
shazzar's was changed, when ne had
seen the handwriting on the wall.
And 'Tn that night was Belshazzar,
the king of the Chaldeans. slain."