The Adair County news. [volume], April 22, 1914, Page 3, Image 3

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the State itself, corrupts its pol
itics, controls its elections and
-dominates its legislation. Thus
does the institution dethrone
justice, destroy domestic tran-?
quility, overthrow the common
defense, and bring into bondage
those to whom the constitution
guarantees life, liberty and the
pursuit ofhap'piness.
III. In testing the liquor
traffic by a purely commercial
standard, two factors must be
considered. First its cost. Sec
ond, its value. Statistics for the
past 35 years sHow that the total
retail cost of . the liquor traffic
has been approximately $37,000,
000,000, that during the same
time the traffic has paid the
United States government $4,
500,000,000 in internal revenue,
or almost exactly $1 for every
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$8 taken out of the people's pock
etsr Injl9ilthe retail cost of
the business reached the enor
mous sum of two and one half
billion dollars, while the revenue
received from it amounted to on
ly two hundred and twenty mill
ion. When we add to this al
ready enormous cost the yalue of
the time and material used in the
production of liquor, the cost of
three-fourths of all pauperism,
one-fourth of all insanity, two
fifths of the neglected and aban
doned children and fully two
thirds of all crime, we begin to
realize the cost of the traffic' and,
its defenceless commercial plea.
When we consider that in return
for this vast expenditure it deals
out to the America people only
sin, buffering and death, we re
alize that the enormous cost of
the liquor traffic is worse than a
total loss, and cannot be support
ed upon an economic basis.
IV. After" considering the
different ideals of men, and the
varied policies of nations, we
wonder if in the last analysis
there is any unchanging stand
ard .by which to measure an in
stitution or estimate the value, of
a reformation. From the smoul
dering ashes of ruined Empires,
from the wiSdom of by-gone
philosophy and from the courts
of our own conscience comes the
decree that rightousness is the
standard by which all institu
tions must be measured. As
centuries pass ideals and condi
tions change, but principles of
right and wrong remain the same
forever. Human slavery existed
for centuries supported only by
its commercial value, until it was
tested by the single standard of
righteousness and was condemn
ed. So has the liquor traffic
lived, endured bv a people igno
rant of its economic -and social
evils, supported by the money of
its debauched patrons and pro
tected by its tremendous and
corrupt political power, until to
day Civic Righteousness asserts
that the saloon has no right to
rob the laborer of his toil-bought
gold, no right to carrupttheman
hood of our country and no
right to blow its poisonous breath
into the face of innocent woman
hood and blight her hopes and
life. In short it has no right to
exist. The sooner men learn to
mpasure by this standard, the
sooner will the clock of human
progress mark another epoch in
the world's advance toward uni
versal liberty, peace and pros
perity. v. What then is the ultimate
goal of our endeavor? Is it Lo
cal Option? that system by which
the larger Political Unit says to
the smaller you shall or shall not
have the legal right to commit
wrong. If the traffic were local,
or if principles of right and wrong
were matters of county and state
lines, this would be a solution.
But drink is universal.and stand
ards of right and wrong as.bound
less as the sky. Is it High Li
cense wherein the government,
taking a part of the profits at
tempts to legalize and civilize
crime? Have the countless wars
of nations and the priceless blood
of martyrs wrought in vain?
Have they failed to demonstrate
that compromise cannot settle
moral questions; that parliaments
of men cannot transform vice to
virtue, sin to service, or wrong
to right?
VI. Since past ages have test
ed the liquors traffic by Social
standards and found it undersirr
able, by Potitical standards and
found it inexpedient, by Com
mercial standards and pronounc
ed it a failure and by Ethical
standards and found it wrong,
the only question for'oqi present
generation is how to eradicate
this acknowledge , devil. ,From
a purely legal standpoint
legislative prohibition is the only
logical solution of the liquor
problem. Effective legislation,
however, must always follow
rather than lead public opinion.
So in this particular case temper
ance laws will prove effective
only when preceeded by a pre
dominating sentiment in favor of
temperance. It follows there
fore that the educator must pre
pare the way for the legislator
in the solution of this and similar
problems.Today we realize as ne.v
er before that the legislator has
failed to keep pace with the ed
ucator and needs to be spurred
on to greater endeavor. Although
the propagation of Christian ed
ucation and the molding of a
temperance sentiment has not
been accomplished all at once, or
in a brief period of endeavor,
still the movement from dark
ness to dawn has always been
discernible. When the clouds
have rested most darkly on the
landscape of human progress
they have parted and through
their rift have ever been seen
patches of the blue sky and glint
ing of the eternal stars.
VII. But the impatient reform
er asks, When shall our victory
be complete? Our answer is,
when men no longer hold that
politics and religion are separate
and distinct. But when all shall
agree that a state without right
eous officials is incomplete
and inefficient. When men realize
that principle is more potent than
party, character more valuable
than gold and life more precious
than luxury. Then will our un
ion of States consecrated by the
blood of patriots and the tears of
thelowly.the temple of freedom,
reared by our fathers, stand in
resplendent glory. , Then.taught
by past experiences, inspired by
present duties, encouraged by
glorious prospects, let us arise in
the might of our manhood and
utterly destroy this prince of
evils, this power of darkness,
the "Red Plague" of human so
ciety, commoly called the Liquor
Traffic.
Life of an Itinerant Preacher.
the parsonage loss, and ruined.,
by the friction of so many social
adjustments in different and
strange communities. That so
many of them have done so well
is remarkable if not providential.
A home like that of the ancient
Levite is absolutely necessary
for the social, mental and moral
training of children. "There
are sermons in stones and brooks,
and there are contributions pos
sible to child life from the bliss
of domestic sources that are in
dispensable to its moral and re
ligious tutelage. "The old oak
en bucket, the mosscovered buck
et, along with every loved spot
that my infancy knew" make
and leave impressions that are
eternal. There is no estimating
the moral values that come to
childhood from the friendly en
vironments of the established
home. On the other nand, a
temporary home, which is a mere
sleeping place and which belongs
to another, fearfully diminishes
all moral contributions from do
mestic sources, and when such a
home is arranged and dominated
by the parsonage dictator it is
deadly to all selfrespect. These
transient homes of the itineracy
moreover are by fnecessity de
prived of the conveniences and
comforts many of those delight
ful things, elegant things of
taste, culture and beauty which
are possible only to the establish
ed home, and all of which means
contributions of culture and re
finement which are of infinite
value. It is the home that fur
nishes a resting place from the
cares of public life, that is a con
solation in sorrow and a joy at
all times. "It is the sanctuary
of the heart, "and more than any
other institution in our civil and
religious liberty gives complex
ion to our social and political
life as the homes so will be the
nation. No one can escape his
environments and it is impossi
ble therefore to raise a child
with a sensitive nature to be re
fined and free from coarseness
in such parsonage homes as that
described by A. V. Babbs, where
a minister and his wife living in
a ramshacked parsonage in a
neighborhood where the wealth
' (Written for the News,) jran up int0 tfce millions and -
What a gift of God, "of ser- j where the parjshioners steadily
vice," of goodness, is the living
ministry of the New Testament
to the world! Who can estimate
the cultural .influence, and civil-
neglected the just claims of their
pastor, who with his wife sat up
one bitter cold day in their'
kitchen with heavy wraps on by
izing power of Christian preach-1 the side of a red-hot stove un
ing that overthrew the idols of . hl to keeD warm in spite of
Rome, One has- said that, the
best security of civilization is
the dwelling the home. For
wise reasons therefore, God's
financial system made provisions
for a settled pastorate, in opposi
tion to a homeless itineracy, the
constant tendency of which is to
prevent and destroy the homing
instinct the love of the home
and to produce the discontented,
'restless and vacillating spirit of
the wandering.
The families of many itinerant
ministers have sufferd at this
point, and the children of some
of whom. have bent offended by
wraps, and in spite of stove, and
the wife was dead in a week or
two from pneumonia.
Surely it was fortunate, if not
providential, that this pastor and
his wife had no children to be
disgusted and alienated from the
ministry and the church: and
surely these stingy and rich pa
rishiones will answer in the day
f of judgment for the death of
this excellent woman who sacri
ficed her life to the moral and
and spiritual interests of their
community. There are. many
ways by which we may .commit
(Concluded ou.page 7.)