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The only Justifying ground fof a
prohibitory law, If found at nil, must
bo found In the principles, not of
morality, but of political economy, or,
to use a wider phrase, In the require,
ments of public policy. The scope
of public policy Is wide. It consid
ers what Is. necessary op desirable for
the community nt larger what best
subserves the Interests of the State:
What will provide for Its revenues,
develop Its resources, and protect It
from various dangers. Here Is the
ground of power to tax for support
of the Srtto and tor public Improve
ments; to establish common schools;
to levy duties on Imports; to declare
quarantine; to kill diseased cattle;
to regulnte the sale of dangerous ar
ticles, such as gunpowder and poi
sons. Indeed, public policy, the right
of tbe State, may go so far In Its
demands ns to "take the body" of
the citizen, enlisting him for war,
or even drafting him by force, It he
himself Is unwilling to fight his
country's battles.
Iow,' It Isvsolely In the exercise
of the right which such power Im
plies, and for reasons of external
public policy, that the State has In
the past Interfered, or can ever be
asked to Interfere, with the liquor
trafllc, In nil degrees of sucfr Inter
ference, from the lowest form of li
cense Tn the most Iron-clad prohibi
tion. The confessed object of all
such legislation Is the lessennlng or
the entire suppression of the evil
suffered by society In consequence of
that traffic. In the presence of such
a law, If any citizen claims the per.
sonal right to sell liquor. without a
license, or If, as against prohibition,
the citizen claims the personal right
to drink .liquor within the, bounds
of moderation, and hence, the right
to buy or
mntrn I. nil. nt wtltph
claims found themselves on the per
sonal liberty of the citizen 'the State
replies, In effect; "Whatever your
right may be In Itself, or would ib
In case others wore not damaged by
Its exercise, yet you and your right
do not stand atone. All rights must
exist together In harmony, and when
discord arises there must ensuo n
mutual limitation. In the application
of this principle, the public good re
quires that the sale of liquor shall
bo restricted or suppressed, your In
dividual rights to the contrary not
withstanding." So saying, the nn
swer pf the Stato Is complete, and.
It facts shall warrant, Its position
unassailable.
The, Public Good '
Thus far It Is clear that the es
sential question Is solely one of pub
lic good. The morality of the ques
tion Is accidental. Of course, mod
ern society universally recognizes,
however, It may fall at times In ap
plying the broad prlnclple,that open
Immorality Is advorse to the public
good. Society Is aUo, happily, be
ginning to -apprehend that tho po
litical economy of the future must,
for reasons of social prosperity, per
mit a largo admixture of moral mo
tives In Its methods and precepts.
And yet, after nil, the liquor laws
have not been or could they be enact
ed because the use or abuse of liquor
Is Immoral, but because the abuse
of it Is Injurious to society..
What, then, tho Prohibitionist
must do, In order to sustain his ap
peal to civil legislation, Is to dem
onstrate the gravity and extent of
the evils Inflicted on society by the
liquor traffic.
lie must demonstrate the preva.
lence and burden of this evil tn r.uch
preponderance as quite to outweigh
the claims and Individual rights that
oppose his cauBO. He can not deny,
If ho keeps within the region of
fncts, that, while the absolute num
ber of those who abuse liquor to the
result of drunkenness n,nd social dam
age Is absolutely large, yet relative
ly It Is much smaller than the num
ber of those who do not so abuse
It, who never are drunken and dam
age society "save In the Imagination
of that argument for "coustruqtlve"
damage, so familiar in some quarters,
which denounce tho moderate drink
er as the greatest foe to temper
ance nnd social order. Whatever
may be the moral Judgment as to
the position of tho moderate drinker,
it will not do for the. Prohibitionist,
seeking civil legislation, to lose sight
of this undeniable disparity of num
bers. To deny It, to take for grant
ed that this larger class Is depraved
and destitute of any rights which
tho reformer should respect, Is sim
ply to offend tho good sense of the
community at large, and to react
lln Injury to the very cause ho seeks
to further.
Damntre to Morals. '
With this disparity In mind, then,
It becomes necessary for the ndvocato
of prohibition to show that tho evil
resulting from drunkenness Is so
great as lo require tho abolishment
of oil drinking; that, because a cer
tain proportion of society Is dniigor-
ously vicious in Its ubuse of liquor, duty u law to him. lie Ib your
the only remedy Is to bo found In eifual in Intelflgepco, general con
forbidding tn the much larger pro-,sceutlousiit'ss and Cliilsiluu earnmt
portion of society nny use of It wliut-'iiesH, There Is no renson why iU
ver. Ami this, If Im denim it snlu- opinion In nny mailer should not ha
Hip Prlnrrlon ItoUoit.)
tnry pnd permanent statute, he must
show, not amy to the shifting mind
of politicians catching at public fa
vor and office, not only to n chnnce
legislation which some political com
bination may have'rnrrlcd Into pow.
er, ,but Jo the good' sense of society
In general; n good sense and general
opinion absolutely essential to the
permanence and utility of any stat
ute, however nny sudden tide of pass
ing enthusiasm may have procured
Its enactment. When the general
tonse of society Is agreed that the
greatest good of .the greatest number
requires a prohibitory law, that law
will be 'enacted and enforced as nat
urally and promptly ns are the laws
against stealing and smuggling.
Until the law Is desired and sustain
ed by such general or controlling
ientlment, It will be a positive moral
damage, tho constant cause of lies
and' evasions, and degrading In the
estimation of .men to the very con
ception of tho law, which should ever
be held as among things most
iacred.
Prohibition, dropping Its only
valid argument of social expediency,
assumes the dignity of n moral pre
cept, and declares that the Stato
ought to prohibit tho manufacture
and sale of liquor on strictly moral,
grounds; that such making and sell
ing nre sinful; that the license sys
tem Is wicked In that It draws a
revenue from sin. This Idea of moral
urgency Is spoken or Implied In every
resort to synods and conferences on
the part of prohibition, and to tho
falsa principles Involved In It many
a religious body gTVes consent, eith
er unwittingly or unwillingly, for
tho fear of being misunderstood or
misrepresented. The usual form of
!"h deliverances reasons from the
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nablt to the necessity of civil stat
ute to prevont it.
Thus, whatever force may be sup
posed existent In an ecclesiastical
enactment to formulato a spiritual law
Is sought In order to clothe the so
clal expedient of prohibition with
the sanctities of moral precept. It
Is but a borrowed plumage, not na
tive to the bird which wears It. A
moral precept is an Instrument for
the education and strengthening or
the moral man, and ns such It may,
without, hesitation, .be affirmed that
prohibition has no standing In the
couit of Chrlstlnn morality. Preach
ed as a moral dogma, binding on the
conscience, it Is reprehensible as the
sin whl:h It proposes to abolish. This
ought to be self-evident to", every
mind; and yet becauso tho mind Is
oppressed by the enormous evils of
Intemperance, and at the same time
drawn by thogood which prohibi
tion promises,- the vital distinction
here noted Is apt to bo lost. Thu
truth of this distinction and Its Im.
portance will appear from the fol
lowing consideration:
1. The" logical support of prohi
bition as a moral' precept necessarily
Involves the assumption of ono of
two things either that nil drinking
of Intoxicants and consequently thn
sale of them is sinful, or that an
Invariable moral law of total absti
nence, to bo enforced on all by con
science and both canon and civil law,
grow out of their abuso by some.
Doth of these assumptions aro false.
As to the former, It hardly needs to
be argued to tho unbiased mind that
both reason nnd S:rlpture place the
marks of sin at Inebriety. To bo
drunken Is n sin.. To drink with the
certainty or probability of drunken
ness 'Is n sin. To drink within the
limits of e n tire, self-control Is in
different. 'This Inst la truo temper
unce, with which firmly observed, so
long ns a man's Influence Is not
taken Into account, for tho mun him'
self it Is as Innocent to drink ns to
eat bread. To sell for such use must
also ho Innocent. It stands truo thnt
the Ulble calls drunkenness a sin,
but not drinking. Hence there Is, u
false, premise, in tho moral plea for
prohibition when It says, as In tho
majority of Its utterances, "Thou
shalt not drink." This even tho
moral law can not say. It Is still
more Impossible for the civil law to
Bay IP-for moral reasons.
The first of the two assumptions
Is, then, manifestly false. The other
can faro no better, though more
plausible In Its statement. Its ordi
nary form of statement Is of tho na
ture of a 'conclusion; that tho evils
In many cases attendant on the use
of liquor nre bo enormous us to re
quire prohibition, nnd therefore It Is
the duty of every Christian and mor
alist to seek sirh a statute Hut this
Is contrury to the spirit of Christian
liberty and the right of private judg
ment. You may sny, In sympathy
with Paul, "I will drink no wine,
because my brother stumbleth," Hut
you may not say to another that
ha also must abktaln. Whatever tho
civil stntute may compel, you can
not mako your estimate of moral
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facts he forms different conclusions,
from your own, and equally desires
the right and true. You have no
moral right to bind his conscience,
nor to nrguo for that which will
bind him from a moral dictum that
Is only a matter of opinion.
However the Individual may enact
for himself a prohibitory law on tho
ground of his own moral convictions
and Christian experience, yet there
Is a gross Invasion of Christian lib
erty when It is asserted that this Is
an Invariable moral law; that every
man ought tc be bound by It, or that
church courts ought to pronounce It
the voice of religion. Indeed, the
whole argument for prohibition Is
utterly hostile to the free spirit of
the Gospel,
2. As further emphasizing the
points already made and nddlng to
them, It is to bo noted that the real
principle Involved In prohibition Is
directly adverse to the spirit, tho
method and the aim of Christian
morals. Aside from the social avout,
the thing proposed by the moral at
titude of tho measure Is to reduce
vice and promote virtue, to rescue
and reform the drunkard and tode
llver others from temptation. It, may
be Bafely said that Christian moral
ity, while earnestly desirous of such
beneficent ends, Is opposed to such
a method of reaching them. The
philosopher will tell you that, ns a
matter of fact, you can not make
men' virtuous by compulsion. To
this the Christian moralists will add
that you ought not To try; that you
should not, If you could. The Ideal
of Christian manhood Is In spiritual
and moral power; In Inward gra
cious strougth, not external safe
guards; In the self-control of man
ly virtue, not In continuous pupilage
to superior restrictive negations; in
the victory that overcometh tho
world, not the Bafety of the coward
who runs away from the battle. Tho
strength of moral manhood says "I
will not, because I ought not." It Is
not n moral child who says, "I will
not becauso I can not."
This latter speech It Is that tho
moral theory of prohibition 'seeks tn
put Into men's mouths. Instead of
teaching them to be men self
poised, 'self-controlled, strong In
grace and virtue and faith, "grow
ing In the measure of every part"
of the moral man, "compacted by
that which every Joint Eupplloth,'1
It would keep them forever "as .chil
dren," whbm, lest they "bo driven
about by overy wind of (evil) and
cunning craftiness whereby (men)
lie In 'weight to' deceive," It would
surround with an Iron wall of ex
ternal circumstance, so that they
must he sober whether thoy will or
not. This, Indeed, Is very far re
moved from tho Scriptural concep
tion of Chrlstlnn niuullnesa and vir
tue, which Is "strong In tho Lord
nnd In thn power of Ills might, able
to withstand nil tlm fiery 'darts of
Hie wicked tine, and, having done
all, to stand," Buch Is your Chris
tian so Idler, who "endures hardui-sj,"
mill does not plead for extraneous
iillani, According, to the moral
theory of prohibition, there ought tu
have been n high fence around tho
trco of the knowledge of good nnd
evil, so thnt Kvo could not reach It.
Consider how great misery stlch a
prohibitive statute would have saved
the race.
The point of objection, then,- is
clear. Prohibition Is not to bo urged
by the church nnd Chrlstlnn moral
ity ns n remedy fur moral Ills. Wc
may not teach society that prohibi
tion is required by Christian morals.
We may not teach tho drunkard that
his salvation from the curse 61 Turn
Is to be found only In prohibition?
We may not teach the youth tliPlr
best safeguard Is to be made by pro
hibition. We may not tench the
world that Christian Virtue and man.
hood require nnyclvll law for either
their creation or their preservation.
To do this Is false to the .principles
of Christian truth and Is treuBon,tn
the Lord. Hut In tho predlcnment of
doing Just this very thing, this the
ory of prohibition stands, when
urged as a moral precept and en
forced with the sanctions of relig
ion Verily, not on such food ns
prohibition brings will men grow to
the stature of moral manhood. Put
your prohibitory enactments on the
statuto book, make them operative
n lid successful, nnd then the world
will hnve taken a step backward In
true moral progress; and Christian
doctrine nnd manhood, bo far forth
as they shall demand thereon, will
havo receded from their dtvlno Ideal.
3. Kor, In the next place, as a
conclusion that Is Irresistible and a
fact beyond denial, It follows that
the acceptance by the church of this
moral theory of prohibition, as a nec
essary means of meeting and subdu
ing moral evil, Is a confession of
failure and of hopeless weakness on
the part of Christianity. Such fail
ure has certainly beeif charged by a
number of advocates Jr temperance
and prohibition, whose assaults upon
the church have been more bitter
nnd virulent than upon the rum (low
er. The adoption by tho church of
this modern shibboleth of so-called
nioml reform virtually confesses that
this false charge Is tUio. It goes to
tho foot. It declares that Christian
methods are too weak; that tho Oos
pel Is unequal to saving men from
the sin of Intemperance, however ef
ficient it may be In coping with oth
er forms of sin; thr.t spiritual power
must be supplemented by civil law
In order to redeem tbe world; that
the preacher pf "righteousness, tem
perance nnd Judgment to come" must
be attended by the constable, to give
to at least one of his doctrines the
desired effect.
There Is no evasion of this con
clusion. It Is so plain as to be self
evident, Instond of relying on God's
spirit, this preacher of it moral pro
hlbltloji puts his trust In fallible
legislators. Instead of using spirit
ual Influence, resorts to the tricks
nnd treacheries of politicians. In
stead of holding up tho puro law of
God, he scelis to submit to "ordi
nances; (ouch not, taste not, handle
not, niter the doctrines and com
mandments of man," against which
t lit Holy Ghost has expressly warn
ed. Insleud of fdiicollnlt In the slut-
ute of perfect manhood In Jettu
Christ, he would bind men In sober
ness by n statute, and keep themchll
dren tor life. Hut the method Jtnd
result are alike unchristian. "The
weaponu of our warfare aro not car
nal, bjit mighty, through God, to tho
pulling down of strongholds, nnd
bringing Into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ," W'hnt
the church needs for the successful
doing of her work In saving inen -rf
iuiii uiu niu ui iiut.'tiiji:iuiii;t:. no
from all other sins, Is not u prnnlb.
I lory stntute, but it'eoul-filling bap
tism of the Holy Ghost. '
4. Still another objection to tho
theory of prohibition In Its moral as
pect Is that It Is the unphllosophlcal
nnd unbelieving language of Impa
tience; "He that lielloveth shall not
mako haste." The world, under
God's rule, Is Working out Its salva
tion. A steady redemption Is going
on slowly, you may say. If you
please, and yet steadily. "Now Is
our salvation nearer than when we
believed!" Undoubtedly, this prog
ress might hnve been more rapid had
the1 people of God been more faith
ful. And yet the entlro history of
truth and the analogies of faith teach
that moral reformation Is both In
ward nnd outwurd, and most emphat
l:ally that It can not be hastened by
externnl statute. Now, the theory
of prohibition grows Impatient of
this law of moral progress. Alarm
ed, horrified by the portentous char
acter of tho present form of evil
which It seeks to combat. It proposes J
io ucsiroy u at one mow, rontllyjind
foolishly dreaming that such a blow
Is possible.
It may be proper enough to cut aW"
Gordlan knot when tho knot Is only 4
n i.u(im inflow ui HIIUD ur lUUUgH.
Hut when It Is made of thought and
feeling or Imported by Immoral pas
sion, there Is no sword of human, law
that, to the satisfaction of morals
ur of religion, Is equal to tho cut
ting. Such Instruments may, Indeed,
If circumstances shall proro propi
tious, tolve n riddle for society nnd
minister to Its general comfort nnd
safety. Hut when you get to tho
real moral problem, which In this
question forces the church and the
moralist, you find something far
more Imperative and Important than
any external and so;lnl prosperity
a flemand for moral reformation,
Thnt knot must be untied by pa
tient toll and lavo and faith - nnd
prnyer. Prohibition Is no answer lo
this moral problem, albeit the radi
cal error made by Prohibitionists Is
In constantly presenting it' as an an
swer. If It Is not. meant ns a moral
remedy, It has no more propriety In
the pulpit than a discussion of tho
turlff.
A notable Illustration of the point '
In hand Is fuund In tho fact that the,,'
vast majority of temperance poocheu
and sermons, forgetful .that Chris.
tlan temperance Is Bolf.contrpl1'7nn'il'
that for sobriety the moral jaw -of
abstinence Is found In Individual lib-!
er(y. Insists on m necessity ofitu,
enforced abstinence, not lmplyrfnsri
social expedient, but ns a moral rivS
fUlreniut. Moral suasion Is, drld-i
rd and laid uslde; moral and spiritual
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