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PUBLIC PRESENTATIONProhibitionAll the reason and login employed on the subjec t of lemjx'muce reform is incon • sbuent if we awn at anything short of pro hibition. The thinking and humanity loving know that a license law can not ;‘hare any power to remove the sin of in Uftnpe ranee See our Inconsistency in leg; Islalion: The State will license the.sale otj intoxicating liquor and then declare habit | uni drunkenness a just and suffie'eut cause for divorce. This is an easy separationA! most n!ae}y nine caws out of everyhundred rest their claim on this ground inthe* courts To license the sale of rumprotects and encourages the traffic. Anylt;*j prohibitory features contained in a licenselaw. ituif*h might U* advantageous, are j really neutralized by such license. If tne f traffic Is just and right, then it is manifest-to refuse this natural right to a |poor man who cannot pay the revenue demanded bv such license. If the traffic iswrong no license cm remove the wrongand make it right; neither has any government authority t legalistic and protect vice. Governments are ordaiped to protect and foster virtue and to suppress vice and wickedness If we cast a ballot for a license | we are responsible for the injuries committed under such law, when by voting prohibition, the opposite result might have ! been attained. Is it right to prohibit?— i Who will lie injured by it? Wifi it injure the peace and happiness oY our homes?■tWill it in ke husbands less.! ffedionate and provident, sons less filial aud respectful? Will mothers be saved frlt;m anxiety for tiieir children aud homes, fortunes and characters protected from the withering and blighting curses of strong drink? Do you say, **It is mine and I have a right to d■» as 1 please with it? That may 1m* true, w if I dcMvt ot injure others by doing as 1 I J please. A man h tlt; no right to burn his ( own house, for, by so doing he destroyes the propeity of the commonwealth and injures the community. No oue has a right to keep an unruly or dangerous animal and “ thereto t.\plt;we the safety of anyone. A | m mau has no right to fire the prairie grass oub:own laud when he endangers the « iuu.ilt;*stsol another. We do have aright to guarani me against infections disease even though business may be urgent, and with chflklrefi, or friends may be sick or dying; uU that is nothing to the protection of the masses. The person dying of yel- m low fever or small pox dies honorably, is mourned for, lamented, aud his death can fee referred to will) affectionate regxrd for all time. Is it so with tne drunka'd?— What reproach and beasilmess dog his stejis from his first loss of s^lf control and respect. on down the lung sharfcfttl career, until the rollon hulk of a diseased body aud wreck soul is covered deep with su^li an infancy as we could not even mention the name or circumstances of the death. «except With shame aud regret. \County Editor, liangor.Our New York LetterMol Chau tiler
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South Haven Messenger
South Haven, Michigan, US
Fri, Apr 04, 1884
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