Evening journal., 1917-10-22

history, have been willing TO give up
their property for their lives and ther
surrender their lives for liberty. II Il
Is immoral TO take my purse, a thing Of
little value, II II Is immoral to take my
life, IL cannot be moral Co take a thing
of highest value--a mans liberty. w,
reject prohibition not because we want
TO make men drunk but because prohi
bition Is an immoral proposition.
Opposed to Nature. ..
Prohibition Is not only contrary Ia
reason, but II is opposed TO nature. In
conflict with nature men cannot hope
TO win. Let the farmer plant his corn
in December and his work will be in
vain.
can respect law that forbids any
person to throw bricks out of a ten
story window on TO the heads of people
In the street, but / would have supreme
contempt for any legislator who would
write bill to abolish gravity go that
q brick could not fall.
Let all nations In congress assembled,
pass a law against the Falls of Mia
CARA, and Niagara will laugh in the face
of all nations.
But If you want to know whether pro-
hibition Is contrary to nature, tell your
son that he shall no longer keep conf
pany with a certain young lady. Issue
your imperial prohibition decree in thun-
der tones, and if that boy amounts Ia
a tinker's damn, he viii have that girl
or die. II he does not amount 20 a
-, tinker's damn, / congratulate the girl
The thing In man that makes prohi-
bition a failure, makes manhood a sue
cess. If you could make prohibition a
success, YOU would make man a failure
Where did your boy get the natural
impulse TO reject, resist and defy pro-
hibition. He got IL from you. You would
do the same thing and so would I. Did
we get IL honestlyi
Go back with me TO the Garden of
Eden. Start at the beginning Unless
the Darwinian theory is true, Adam
and Eve were the first of the human
race. They were innocent and perfect
Unlike we, they did not have long lines
of ancestors, reaching backward to dark
ages with inherited weaknesses, wicked
ness and sin.
God placed these perfect people in a
beautiful Eden where there was not a
single excuse for going wrong. The
! BIRDS sang night and day, the flowers
! doomed on every hand, and when the
q ,s storm struck the trees they made music
q hke a thousand harps.
Ie nut one day there stood in their pres.
,.s.S noI an Anti'Saloon League leader
er A.. ~ us sen -assumed authority-not "a
III ~ ss. .A with a "A in his hip pocket
Of ou. there stood In their presence the
A. omnipotent God who flung n mill,o, ~, a..
M ing suns into space and held the ,,,,,'.,
I'd IN the hollow Of His hands. This 80
~ potent God, the embodiment ~ an ~.
se. thority, said to our ancestors, these n sS
~ feet people; 'ess per
vi of every tree Of the garden thou NAV
=, est freely cat" 'A'aS
nc Up to the point of greedom all tree
~ looked alike 60 Adam and Eve. Tbo
an had no special curiosity concerning m
n fruit Of any particular tree, but when n
he Lord added
pn But of the fruit of the tree which
is in the midst of the garden We shall NJ
~ eat of it, neither shall We touch II lc
Dr. We die" the curiosity of these perfe
people was aroused.
What was the effect of this first pr
h hibition decree issued by Supreme A
l. thority to our perfect ancestors in par
o disef Why, when Adam and Eve fou
o that the Garden of Eden had gone pr
n hibition, it was a question Of who wou
J. get to that tree first and Eve beat Ada
2 to it, She had to go some, too, belle
I me.
Z Our opponents may argue that All tl
proves that God was a Probibitionist
= that he made a mistake. 1t proves not
ing of the kind.
This story in the Bible is given