Licking Valley courier., 1917-05-31
GUMPTION, ---.
Which is plain Common Sense, in United States
language, without Educational FurbeIows.
BY l.. Il. HONERNIAI1E. 5s
Citizenship as Exemplified by YOU
KS.
with apologies to Evangelist Roud Shaw.

CltlzenshIP as Exempifled BY -YOU.E E#@ f
with apologies Evangelist Rouds shaw.
Some Of you who read this may have heard the SER
mon few nights snce by Elder Shaw on the subject:
"The Gospel According to You. For this sreason make
my apologies to him an account the similarity between
the head for this article and the title Of his sermon am
ascker for good heads both newspaper articles and
on men. 1t Solomon, Ibeieve who said, "There is
nothing under the sum- And it left for mod
e savant to declare that thought was original with him
who said best Elder Shaw told an old truth in an ef
fectve way hope to tell an ancient truth in equally as
forceful manner n *,
A few days ago an old man who had had his heart
wrung by the liquor curse though he used it him
SELF asked me if there way to prevent the Of
whiskey in the coming primary and election. answered
him that in this twenetycentury Christian civilization Of
our that there legal way to prevent the candidates
that must be eectedby the Christian people from using
whiskey to influence the election And there is not Nor
is reasonable to expect that the law against bribery will
be enforced by men whose election is secured even in
part by bribery.
But this good old citizens query put me to thinking
Surely thought this matter is properly brought to the
trial of public judgment of the good citizenship of the con
ty we have whskeyless election So turned to my
old friend and sad .If an effort should be made to ere
ate sentiment against the use of whiskey and money will
you hep" Lifting his eyes reverenty he said effort
or not, God helping me, will not vote for candidate
whom know to be using whiskey to influence votes
That looked good to me for start and believing that
action would be better than talk approached each of the
pastors here and sounded them as to their opinions as to
the advisabiity of starting RIGHT NOW vigorous cam
paign to sentiment against the of whskey in
Aeectons in this county Each of them thought it good
idea and of them was enthusiastic enough to
suggest that the ministers meet in ministerial association
and pass resolutions condemning the practice. Now be-
and
knew how much effect resolutions" have on them. 1t
requires club to impress them. Your politician while
being moral coward and in constant terror of public
tment smooth article and knows how to accurately
gauge reform movement and it is only when real action
begins that he begins to trim sail and in and leads
the movement friend tried to dissuade me from start
ing trouble in this line, saying that it might njure my
chances of being elected but answered him that while
candidate was not politician, and that | had
reached that ptabe stage of human existence that
made me afraid to express my convictions.
After ALL whose fault Mr. Good Citizen is it that we
have corruption in elections? Let me whisper softly to
you that it is YOURS Good citizens Christian citizens
in majority in this county, yet the use of liquor
and money is depended upon to elect officers.
How are YOU exempifyng citizenship in your com
munty? ava nothing to condemn these practices anC
vote for men who follow them The politician who will
use liquor and money in an election does not fear you
talk condemnation unless you emphasize it with YOU
vote. You might hold Indignation meetings and 'reso
lutte" till centuries swing by countless numbers and yo
will do no good unless you vote as you 'resolute" Ar
you setting example of goodcitizenshp by voting tn
way you talk, you publicly condemnng the use
liquor in elections and privately voting for the men VIII
use it? And when do you expect stop by that
Figs don't grow on thistles. Neither can you expec
man elected by corruption to scrape off the slime on tn
official portals.
Cold water pourers will say that the practice can't
stopped but it can. Timd friends told me when bega
my fight against the sale of liquor in Menefee that ii
liquor people controlled politics and would put me out
Office continued the fight and put them out of busne
and incidentally out of political control They" said thu
county graft was too firmly entrenched to be ousted b
it wasn't But this was not accomplished by 'esolutng
No reform comes without fighting for it. Those who
list in the fight for the elimination of liquor from election
may expect strenuous struggle, must endure abuse ar
defamation of character must be able to smile and g
on when your motives impugned but the victory W
be worth the sacrifice
Two hundred good citizens pledged land who W
keep the pedge to vote against any candidate using qu
in elections will win the battle
How are YOU exemplfying YOUR citizenship?