Show k frier's arraignment of our ft for temperance indicates 1 Redoes not comprehend our We are in favor of the as much so 1 ean possibly in fact as fore stated the editor of this bet has teen from his boyhood id is at this day a total abstain-f But simply because the editor abstainer he does not be-m hy means of an in making criminals out Itose who are Having the question we know of legislation that is far what is called straight i Who Are Our our views on this 4 mim do not throw us into the i in which Musser find are i fit the associates of any such as lie names as our Ina h the our co-laborers Hi w the presidents of universities ife a all the the presidents' of the the and the best men of the ft need cite only a few examples t ft great fact for the benefit esteemed first is from two of the college one of the reform mayors of New and of another honorable of international history of attempts to people to be hy act of legislature or any other leg-ve has lately in this the Aspects of by Charles W. Seth T JameS 11 that er C h seen a whole generation of law-breakers schooled in and courts l of ys' Carriages of 1 officers of the law double- if- for Kd C to B and jf public ex Through an agitation which has always had a moral these immoralities have been developed and made As to Scriptural Several great ministers have recently shown that there is not a word in the Bible which treats wine or drink as in itself There are many denunciations of but none There is nothing in the Christian religion which forbids the moderate use of or which sets up teetotalism as in itself a higher Surely nothing can be more clear on this question than the life and teaching of Christ The contrast between John the Baptist and our Lord is very strongly John came neither eating nor drinking and they He hath a The Son of Man came eating and and they Behold a man and a wine bibber and a friend of publicans and He increased the gaiety of the wedding at Cana when he changed the water into once what could be more significant than that at the institution of the he should have chosen the common things of life bread that man's the that glad the heart of bread and wine wine as well as bread to be made the memorial of His and the vehicle of grace We have read the arguments and still think that no serious person will maintain with anything like certainty that when is thus mentioned some non-intoxicating liquor is and in the face of these things some of the language used by certain speakers on platform and in pulpits it must be rather Those who prefer a religion that forbids the use of can certainly have but such a religion is not really but the civilization produced by Mohammedanism is of a higher type than that developed by under the influence of we are quite willing to leave others to This is not a sectarian A Great Religionist A very interesting declaration comes from an eminent a high dignitary of the Cath olic Cardinal Gibbons of one of the ablest of celebrated for his Any statements he makes will be read with interest and respect by both sides to the Here are his option should under no circumstances apply to this Liquor would be sold here quite as abundantly under prohibition laws as under well regulated The consequence will be that liquor will be dispensed contrary to law instead of being sold in accordance with the city will be deprived of a large revenue which is so much needed for the government of this a law is flagrantly and habitually violated it brings leg-is lation into It creates a spirit of deception and hypocrisy and compels men to do insidiously and by stealth what they would otherwise do openly and above cannot legislate men into the performance of good and If we are to improve the morality of our city and make our citizens more temperate let the virtue of temperance he proclaimed in the above let it be enforced in the that both by word and may inculcate their children with the temporal and spiritual blessings which spring from a life of temperance and Words of Bishop Bishop Henry C. of the most prominent dignitaries of the Episcopal Church in the United States in a recent interview on the question of said usual good common sense of our people will be forced into a state of bewilderment by the ceaseless agitations of the Prohibition If the latter imagines that an entire nation can be turned upside down at one it is greatly There is no freedom in prohibition and the trying of it will only serve to create You rob the people of its right of amusement and it is useless to make the toiler believe that drinking is a because he will not admit but prove to you that moderately taken it has all the Civic And even the famous Reverend Parkhurst of the Madison IV i Square Presbyterian Church of New the scavenger of dives and and by the the most intelligent the most aggressive reformer amongst the many thousands of his reverend adds this eloquent tes-i I will not say that pro by statute is I do know that no prohibition statute enacted in the past has 1 actually prohibited the traffic in He closes by the people demand saloons should be allowed to sell liquor on Considering the record of i Parkhurst as a liquor his utterances must fall like a bomb- would only in the true Why not him as a That would be duly the true in Is it possible that the Reverend Doctor could have been by the brewer ele-i think Some Other In a conference of the Lutheran held in New Orleans on it was declared t 1 that Prohibition is not a Divine command and among others' the following resolution was j I is a damnable destroying body and But modern which would make sin what God T and bind men's conscience where God would have it is even more dangerous and pernicious that the sin of intemperance and all the there-j from f 3 Abraham has been quoted as in favor of but in a speech on this made the following is a species of because it interferes with the appetite of mankind and makes crimes out of which are not When told that Graut drank Lincoln only you will just tell me what brand of whiskey Grant I will send a barrel of it to every other Northern Who Are the We think by the that the of which Musser is with his own During the past few years a score or more of the Anti-Saloon League's officials and m Michigan have been exposed to the public as Some of these men are fugitives from some are in while discredited in have gone to other where they are affiliated with the same old gang of Read the following list of active managers and workers in the Michigan Anti-Saloon League whose crimes have shocked society during the past few S. C. the superintendent of the Kalamazoo is a swift He made the collectors and solicitors in his district turn all funds over to He in turn sent the state superintendent a statement of all money but he kept the Not one would he turn R. G. superintendent of the Grand Traverse arrested for licentious fled the now the employ of the Minnesota George league Grand arrested for Ralph league orator at fled after being exposed in a liaison with a Detroit John M. an organizer and orator for the league from proven guilty of perjury in a divorce A. a Branch County League sent to house of correction for an unprovoked assault upon a small Orson D. a Saginaw league organizer and sent to house of correction for E. I. another league sent to house of correction for theft C. E. a prominent league worker and orator in Grand expelled from his church for W R. one of the league's most eloquent speakers in the Detroit convicted of J. a Branch County League fled the state to escape arrest for Kirchner of St. Clair County league organizer and his foster daughter P Stephen St. member of the league's force of saving a term for as a colored girl expelled from his church for undue intimacy with one of the John a Grand Rapids league orator and ardent eloped with one of the women of his J. C. County expelled from his church for P. Bay City organizer and orator for the expelled from his church for falsehood and C. A. league worker and orator at expelled from church for |