The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-18

W TIE nomination or men Tor Executive
! and Administrative Offices, who will
Enthusiastically endeavor to enforce
the laws so enacted 1t is useless to
enact laws IL they remain dead letters
on the Statute books.
No Suggestion Of Party.
This suggestion does not involve the
selection of men OF any political party
Or faith. If they are sound on the
main question, "Prohibition," it mat
ters not wheher they be Republican,
Democrat, or Independent.
Preliminary to the formal launching
of our campaign, it is deemed expedi-
ent and wise to issue declaration of
our aims and purposes, and with it a
brief summary Of the reasons which
we think should inspire the zeal of all
who believe with us that intemperance
is the greatest evil with which our
state is now menaced.
! AT the very outset we reject as
utterly fallacious the contention that
prohibition will decreaSe the revenue
OF the state; all experience shows that
the additional financial burden placed
upon the state by intoxication is far
4 greater than the revenue paid in as
taxes and licenses upon liquor and it's
sale. Liquor fills the jails, the reform
atores, the aims houses, the asylums
for the insane and the orphan asylums /;
1t produces extravaganza, waste and
lneficlency on every hand.
Like Revenue From War.
As well might one, fixing his mind
alone on the indemnity paid by France
to Germany in 1901 or that to be
paid by the Central powers to the
allies for the world war; talk of the
revenue by war-such view would
leave out of sight the desoIation of
Belgium, France and Serbia, or the
countless billions lost by all of the
nations in the catclysm of carnage and
destruction.
war IS not revenue producer
neither is whisky, and for the same
reason. But every thoughtful man
knows that the real wealth of the
state Is not in its lands or houses or
gold or in its crops or live stock but
III its able-bOded and efficient citizens
and especially in its youth. The bright
eyed, strong-bodied, high-brOwed boys
and girls of the Commonwealth con-
stitue the real wealth of the state.
They are the brightest gems in the
casket of its wealth and glory. If these
be educated in mind and soul and
body there has been called into ex-
lstence power for good, the fair fruit.
age of which the most distant ages
will enjoy; but if, on the other hand,
they be allowed to grow up in ignor-
ance and sin or debauched by liquor,
loss has been suffered by the Com
mOnwealth from which there can be no
escape.
Personal Liberty CIamor.
We put aside as irrelevant the
clamor as to the vested rights and per-
sOnal liberty of those engaged In the
manufacture and sale of liquor, or of
those who would leave men free, not
only to debauch themselves by drunk
enness, but both by precept and exam
pie to lead the youth of the state into |
the evils of intemperance. There can |
be no vested right to manufacture or
sell liquor. The true philosophy of law
teaches, and the courts now unan.
mOusly hold, that the liquor traffic Is
a dangerous business readily falling
within the dominion of the police pow
Pr of the state, and may at any time
be either regulated or suppressed as
the wisdom of the government die
tates. The hOariness of the evil, there
fore, adds nothing to its right to ex-
list, but rather aecentuates the neces-
sity for its immediate extinction,
We also brush aside the speciOus
argument of mans personal lib
erty to debauch himself by drunk
snness. No man is the owner Of
himself absolutely; Of his life he
%, but the trustee Of an express
rust; first, for the. glory of God and
The exemplificatiOn by right living OF
he wisdom of his creation; second, for
he service Of his country and the up
holding of its highest ideals of citizen
ship; and third, for the perpetuatiOn
If pOsterity and the evolution of a
higher and nobler race. 1t is his duty
hen to so develop his life as to show
'Orth the glory of his Creator and to
'ulfill the purposes of his creation.
t is his duty to serve his country in
very way that will rebound to its
and power and glory.
Patriotism Chief Need.
What every country needs most is
,atriotism-the love of it's citizens
lot alone that patriotism that leads }
nan to willingly die for his country IN
ime of war-that, indeed, is we'll
'ut that higher patriotism, that greater ',
owe that enables a man to live for
lis country in time of peace; to live
or 1t day by day, showing forth in his
Iaily life the beauty and grandeur Of
,ood citizenship; that enables him to
ay to the CRATER and the corruption {