Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 2, 1918, Page 4

‘ciety. Four SERMONETTES.---What You Would Hear from Came Pulbpits Could You Go to Church Tomorrow, Written by the Pastors For The Daily Tribune VOTE FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT ° AM | MY BROTHER'S KEEPER 9” 16 “Personal Liberty” as Revered a Cape Paitor By WALTER H. BRADLEY, First Presbyterian Church. “So speak ye and so do ye as men that are to be judged by a Law tory terms, but there is law in li kind of law who breaks the day arrives when every man pays his shot. “‘Through nine lives will a man’s reckoning hurt him down.” By their long memories the gods are known.” State constitutions and statutes are the expression of what is consid- ered to be for the publie good, and to the public good private interest must *be subordinated. On the score of personal liberty objection is made to the writing of fhe prohibition of the liquor traffic into the constitu- tion and statutes of this sate. Four hundred years ago al] Europe’ was ringing with the cry of religious liberty. There was nothing selfish in it. Men sought liberty to die that their children might be free to pray. When religious liberty was won the cry for civil liberty became electric. There was nothing selfish in it. For two centuries men sought the oppor- tunity to die that their children might be free to govern themselves. Today personal liberty is the rallying cry of the advocates of appetite, lust and greed. There is everything selfish in it. It asks for its exponents’ freedom to destroy themseives and in so doing destroy the morals and peace of so- True personal liberty is one’s right to act within the limits of law without injury to himself, his neighbor or so- ciety. The man who has no will to do ill enjoys true personal liberty. Willing obedience to righteous law is liberty. “If God’s will is our law we are but a kind of noble slaves; but if God’s will is our will then are we his | free children’’ (George MacDonald). Over against this is the vaunted per- sonal liberty doctrine of the selfish, the sensualist and the saloonist who seek their pleasure and fit by pan- dering to men’s weaknesses and vices. So far as civil law is concerned a man living in the wilderness, a hun- dred miles from his fellows, might maintain a nuisance at his door or make the right hideous with drunken revelry and rage. But even there the laws of health written in his body could not be escaped. The lesson of kings and chronicles and all history is that God is the controlling power and sin the disturbing force in the entire history of men and nations. It is fearfully true that ‘whatsoever a man soweth that shall be also reap.” He who sows an act reaps a tendency; he who saws a tendency reaps a habit; he who sows a tendency reaps a habit; ter; he who sows a character reaps a destiny. Nowhere in God’s universe | is there freedom to do wrong with im-| punity. The only true personal lib- erty is freedom to choose between modes of doing right. _in civilized socicty man must yield ure to the demands . He may not do that which will injure another individual, the home or the state. The rights of the one are subordinate to the rights of the many. One may build a house but not burn it. Arson is punishable because the destruction of property is not for the public good. No one may spread disease or attempt suicide without countering laws for the protection of health and life. To- day we are familiar with laws that conserve labor, time and Strength for the benefit of the state. No one may sell in market or pharmacy that which} endangers health. Why should the| liquoy interests alone have the privil- ege of dealing in that which lessens labor, dissipates strength and under- mines health? Americans should know something of liberty because of the price they have paid for it. This cry of personal liberty has a strong middle and east- ern Europe accent. Knowing little of liberty from experience hundreds of thousands of foreigners have come here, not for freedom to worship God | or to enjoy the privileges of civil lib- erty but to improve their material conditions. Having tasted the fruits of freedom they have gone farther and demanded personal liberty to do as they please and to attack the very institutions that have made this land one worth the seeking. To them penny wise and pound foolish politicians to whom votes are as gods have given heed and have surrendered, as the old Egyptions surrendered to the Persians of Cambyses, armed not with swords and shields but with swords and sacred cats. The plea of this type of immigrant whose special charac- teristics we understand today better than ever before resembles that for the divine right of kings to govern wrong. But to this demund for per- sonal liberty to do wrong we have prostituted our day of rest, our finer feelings and morals and our health. If the politicians and liquor inter- ests had used their personal liberty to keep faith with Mr. Lincoln in the matter of internal revenue tuxes dur- ing and after the Civil war the ques- tions of temperance would long ago have. been settled. But when did they ever keep faith? and prohibition | law of liberty.”—James 2.12. and liberty seem to be inconsistent if not contradic- berty and liberty in law. Every s on the side of him who keeps it and against him Pay time may ofttimes be es be long in coming, but in coming, but Cetin lcd aie Would a Answerod-Hiks By R. H. MOORMAN, First Baptist Church. One of.the most vital issues of all times is before us now. It is generally conceded by all fair-minded people that the world would be better if there were no drunkards. Now we have the opportunity to do away with that which makes drunkards. Even the liquor forces themselves admit the utter lack of argu- PROFIT BY KANSAS EXPERIENCE adhe ‘aad Pralafiction Fe “Tete Seien “Years” By W. L. FRENCH, Gantz Memorial Methodist Church. On June 1, 1881, the prohibition law became legaJly ef- fective in Kansas, and that state has been the home of the writer |* from childhood until 30 days ago. Out of those years of obser- vation he would like to say a word as to how the Kansas people | world in veturn? have in the past, and do now, regard prohibition. First—lIt’s political history: For the first 25 years of its exist-| ence the enforcement of this law was | issued in every election—state, coun- | ty and municipal. Candidates for the offices of governor, members of the legislature, state’s attorney general, sheriff, county attorney, judge, mayor and councilmen were tested by their attitude to the enforcement of this law. The result was that for years! some counties and cities were notori- ous violators of this law. Some of-| ficers were elected because it was} | known they would permit this. Oth- ers elected by dry votes shamelessly perjured themselves and betrayed, their trust. During these years a half dozen big cities and scores of small | towns and villages openly defied or) covertly evaded the law of the state. | Some places tolerated open saloons, | | others permitted drug store’ joints or disreputable dives, while. the boot-| legger was everywhere. This situation produced the Carrie! Nation joint smashing crusade, which did for prohibition in Kansas what John Brown's raids did for abolition —stirred the public conscience and crystallized the issue so that it could never again be ignored. It broke the! wet Hindenburg line. From that pe-! riod the enemy has been on the re- treat. In recent years the federal govern- ment has so changed its interna] rev- enue as to remove the protection fermer- ly given to the Violators of state laws. | Liquor shipments cannot now be han-| oy dled by public carriers, and becomes | subject to state law the instant it en- ters the state by any means. This action of the federal ment was followed by the st: bone dry law (1917), which law is 100} per cent what its name suggests. The | result is that after a generation of | bitter fighting, such as no other state has experienced, Kansas has become permanently and completely dry. yern-| Lincoln used these words: ‘Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall. find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slayéry manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it more! of want supplied, more disease hcal- ed, more sorrow assuaged. By it no orphans starved, no widows weeping; t none wounded in feeling, none red in interest. Even the dram- r and dram-seller will have glid- into other occupations so gradu- ly as never to have felt the change, 1 will stand ready to join all oth- ers in the universal song of glad>ess And what a noble ally this is to the cause of political freedom. With such an aid in its march cannot fail to be on and on till every son of earth shall drink in rich fruits the sorrow-quenching draughts of perfect liberty. Happy day when, all appe- tites controlled, all passion subdued, all matter subjugated, mind, all-con- quering mind, shall live and move, the monarch of the world. Glorious consummation! Hail, fall of fury! Reign of reason, all hail! “And when the victory shall be complete, when there shall be neither a slave nor a drunkard on the earth, how proud the title of that land which may truly claim to be béth the birthplace and the cradle of both those revolutions that shall have end- ed in victory. How nobly distinguish- ed that people who shall have planted and nurtured to maturity both the Political and moral freedom of their species.” “Did they finish the fight that day” When the Liberty bell was rung? Did they silence the noise of war, When Liberty’s triumph was sung? Was Freedom made sovereign indeed, When the world That the rei ign ceased of oppression and interstate commerce laws constitution. old bell pealed to the} had! And the banner of Freedom un-| furled? A battle has waged was new; The battle is*on; you.” Vote for the first: amendment. A APSULES God calleth for CATARR NTAL puisbek Would they keep it longer lease of life? In a Washington's B42, seventy-six year in 1842, now if given a 2¢HOURS ouls Beare the since the world During all those years of fighting the state as a whole gave unwavering support to the law and its enforce- ment. No vote of the state as a whole! of law enforcement, and most of ever endorsed resubmission or laxity | them enacted laws to make it more | effective. In all these years the state has never polled a vote from which the wets could get any comfort. : Why This State Policy? First—Kansas adopted prohibition | because she wanted to kill the drink | bothered me.’ business and all its slimy brood. ments against prohibition when the best they can do is to cry, | “Why tinker with the constitution?” My answer to this question is another question far more vital, “Am I my brother’s keeper? If I by my vote can save hundreds of lives from pre- | mature deaths and thousands of wom- en and children from abject slavery, I am worse than a traitor if I do not “tinker with the constitution” and re- move this cause of death and slavery. All the blessings which I enjoy to- one else was divectiv or indirectly felt to these biessings as a “Silas Mariner” U.at he was my keeper. Shall 1 cling | to his gold and refuse to bless the| ‘The man who re-| fuses to help his brother when the op- portunity presents itse?f ‘s not worthy of a brother. He should be banished to some St. Helena, where he could enjoy in péace that which really be- longs to some one else. We pride our- selves upon being Americans. Why not show the American spirit by bless- ing other lives? If we are willing to | give our all for the freedom of the world, why not give our yote for the | freedom of Wyoming? Think again of the effect of the \‘saloon over the keeping of your own. Some may say: “The saloon has never | ” How long will this con- | | dition be true? No man can long! Second—She has adhered to it be- f2rry a fox in his bosom without | cause it has more than met her expec- | having,his vitals eaten out. Have you! tations. It has produced a high rate | any assurance that the saloon which | of average prosperity, destroyed Por does not bother you will not bother | | erty, depopulated her poor houses. It | those which are dearer than life to has reduced crime, driven the red-| you? What father is there who would light districts from her towns and_ hesitate cities, emptied the criminal doc of her courts and vacated her jails, | It has energized every line of legi- timate business, brought cash cus- tomers to her merchants, filled her to remove all stumbling ts | blocks from the path of his own son? | Would a father wilfully destroy his banks with money, her cities with | prosperity and her homes with hap- piness. It has reduced illiteracy to the vanishing point, sending her chil- dren to school properly clothed, well | nourished and clear brained. For the above reasons prohibition is as poiterabls a part of the Kan- as law as is Wyoming, Vote Dry! If the experience of one state for abolition of the federal | to another! er a generation is worth anything | next t Tuesday. own? Make your own safe by remoy-| ing the source of destruction from your brothers’ pathway now. 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