The Nevada County picayune., 1922-03-02
Is IT FAILURE OR \ SUCCESS?
By John TWeeZCr

have. and as long as can get my part of the common air. I am going 10 tcll my honest. thoughts.
 One man in the right will finally get "a be q ma jority
 I am not going to say word that every prohibitionist will not know k true and what he may say with his mouth, I will compel him in his heart to say amen.
 have a right to express my opinions and the right in common with every other human being. and I am wiling to give to every other human being the right that claim for myself
 This is supposed 10 be free eoun- try. at least the people who signed the Declaration of Independence tried to make if so They had the courage not only. but they had the almost in finite wisdom to declare that all men are created equal With one word, with one blow. they wiped away and utterly destroyed all that had been done by centuries of war=centurieS or injustice What more did they dot They declared that each man has a right 10 live And what does that mean It means that he has q right to make his living IL means that he has the right to breathe the air. 10 work the land, that he stands the equal of every other human being beneath the shining stars.
 They laid down the doctrine that governments were instituted among men for the purpoSe of preserving the rights of the people
 The old idea was that the people were the wards of kings and priests The nobles lived upon the labor ol the people. the people lad no rights. the nobes stole what they had and divided with the kae~= aaJ tbe kings prctended 10 divide what they stole with God Almighty
 our fathers fomdei the fr>t secular government that vi. =reer founded in thc world. Reeouecf that The first secular government tiaf ~ad every church has exactly he s;aa'#eght and no more. Tn otlrr words our fathcr, were the first men who ha5I the sense had the genins to know tAat=ne church should bc allowed to have >nptd. that fl should bc allowed oaIy to eNz ert it> moral influence.
 What I am contendin2 fof today k what our fathers wrotc down. want not only the independence of nation. but something far more glorious, the absolute independence of the iHd.Ej. dual
 Only few years ago our ancestors were not allowed 10 speak or write their thought>-that being crime The same conditions would exist to day if the church or the prohibitionistS could get hold of the hit of the sword. They stand ready with branding irons and gallows to burn and choke out of man, the idea that he has a right 10 think and express his thoughts.
 The prohibtionists have already taken the initial step to put the nation back to the days of the blue laws, and some day the battle for freedom and npouIc's rights will have to be fought oyel. again
 Prohibition is not right. It is not right in principle or in practice, no man has the right to say what l shall eat or drink If he had that right, I would belong to him body and soul Bro. Sage in his come back at me ill his article is very much as it k some times in playing game of poker, ah'i l make this comparison knowing that hardly q person who reads ii will understand il, l have been told that along towards morning the man that is a head suddenly says l have got to go home The fact is, my wife iN not well. And the fellow who IS be hind says Let Us have another deal.
 So Bro Sage wants another deal.
 Now I am tired of arguing havt plenty of arguing at home and don't think if is right to take a preacher out of the Lords vinyard al this par ticular season of the year to hell hold up one side of whiskcy argu , n,annl Sn N hnn- l haAI- Suil nnr litLll