Evening journal., 1921-04-04

BATTER DOWN
MORAL LAWS
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faith OF the people, the old Book and
its inspiration, the virgin birth and
resurrection OF Christ, the Pentecost
and Providence accepted by their
fathers until religion had evaporated.
Next they adopted a system OF
philosophy known as 'Materialism'
by which everything spiritual was
dismissed and denied and thought
reduced to the result OF physical
changes occurring in the brain and
the universe was a machine without
a head, a force without a law or
law-giver, reducing themselves thus
to brutes they began to live like
them They banished the Bible from
their school systems, turned the Sab
bath into a continental Sunday Of
beer drinking and gambling and
made the most debauching of all
beverages the German national
drink-beer They were given to
everything that was brutalizing and
degrading.
Then the temptations OF a great
war came upon these people denud-
ed of their religious faith and hence
with no standing ground for morals;
and deeds that will shame our world
for a thousand years characterized
former Christian people who had
forgotten God and were left to their
own ways,
IF l had my way as an Amer
can, I would have my Uncle Sam
put his feet on every step by which
Germany went down stairs to ruin
and walk on those steps in the op-
posite direction-up stairsi
Those steps would be: % The
total Punishment forever from
American soil Of the pro- o-German
brewers and the manufacture OF
beer with its attendant evils, the
brewery owned saloon with it's front
door swinging inward and its side
door to entrap our women and girls
I would have the Bible-the Book
that Washington kissed when in
augurated President. and that Abra-
ham Lincoln loved and Theodore
Roosevelt lived-put back in the
public schools of the United States
so that the boys and girls who are
to be the future American citizens
will have an Intellectual foundation
/ for American morality. / would get
back our American Sabbath on its
American foundations as it stood be-
fore the German-American Alliance
trampled it in the mire Of all our
American cities. I would do this for
the sake of the home life Of the Re
public that the fathers and mothers
who toll away from the children
during the week might all get to-
gether one day in seven free from
grinding cares and let the old affec.
tions of home life reassert their 20.
tential spell on old and young alike
and tlS>f the church may have FIRE,
access to the folks and be enabled tS
keep the moral and spiritual force.
advancing alongside Of the intel
lectual and material prosperity OF
the people.
Il would inaugurate a campaign
OF respect for law and its strict en-.
forcement A Republic is at a dan.
ger point here. The people are 50
close TO the processes Of making
their own laws that they are not ir
awe of the law book or the cour
house as they are where their gov
ernment Is handed down to then
from a so-called higher source. AL
the more reason why we shoulC
teach respect for law, obey it our
selves and see that it is obeyed by
others. If we continue to SOW tn,
spirit Of lawlessness with referenc,
to the Eighteenth amendment VI
will reap the whirlwind when it s.
too late TO get to shelter.
"A startling thing to me has beer
to see our two million men go acros
the water to crush out the type O
civilization that menaced the worl,
because of these very brutalizing an,
coarsening tolerated vices and hav
/ ing witnessed German brutality
Belgian beer-guzzling and Frencl
4 looseness. many Of our men, not 81
. much our soldiers as their officers
, have come back to American pre-
, pared to adopt every loose thin
they found abroad. They say the
want their beer back. their red ligh
abatement laws repealed, the anti
z cigarette laws of various state
= which at least protects the minor,
, annulled. the Sabbath continental
. lied and gambling tolerated agar
] i mere rs NaAAAg a HArANN WANAN iii
organized and well financed propa
ganda is not at work at this momen
/, Scarcely State Legislature ca
! meet without the sinister assaults {
, the confederated interests that pre-.
Il have just crossed the conuner
, and been in 16 states and there
not one where the symptoms are nc
unmistakable. One state was lega
, izing race track gambling. Anothe
! trying to veto the law against sell
ing cigarettes to minors. .Anothe
trying TO repeal the red light abatC
ment laws. Several of them tryin
to nunify the Eighteenth amend
ment. Three seeking to abolish N
Sabbath laws that protect the work
ing men and the home, and news
: papers which before prohibitio
: banished liquor advertisements tai
= ing this whole propaganda Of ev
= and giving IL advocacy and respects
% bility. II is no time for the Churc
to go to sleep. There is good fgh
ing for us all along the line"