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Show I commit murder, break the seventh command mt'Dl or get drunk. He readily read-ily chose the latter, "because," he said, 'that will Injure uo one but myself." my-self." When he became sober, he found that, while lutoxicated. he had committed Kcth the other crimes. A man wearing a mask, and carry-inn carry-inn a dark lantern and a kit of burglar's burg-lar's tools, in a dark nitfht. Is arrested, not because he ha6 committed any crime, but because ho 1b prepared to do so. A drunken man. having destroyed de-stroyed hlj sense of right and wrong, and hU pntver of nelf-control. has prepared pre-pared himself for any crimo within his ability to commit. As he has no rifcht to bo in that condition, it follows that there exists no right to manufacture or sell liquor for that purpose. K-ery ono owes it to tho family, to society, to tho state, to live a sober and useful life. They , hare no right to demand it as a protflctlr.n to the ( rights of ethers And prohibition of . the manufacture and Rale of liquor for drinking purposes la for tho protection pro-tection of liberty and right J Los Angeles, Cal. i '. ! Itemperance'1 I D E P ART M ENTj I of the W. C. T. V.jerjerl Conducted by MRS. S. WAY, I f MRS. WM. CRAIG, MRS. WM. FLEWELL1NG :f v h-k-i-:-:-:-:-:' -i-!; -h- K-i-H-s-M-'.-i-i-f- x-h- ; -K-H-i-H-g- -i t::i ed from using either: For this same reason he is allowed to tear down his house, but not to set it on fire, because be-cause of the danger to tbe property of others. A man may shoot his gun at pleasure within the limits of his large fami, but he is not allowed to shoot that same gun on his own city lot, because the effect of that shooting shoot-ing goes beyond his lot and control. One may take a bath, or build a pigpen, pig-pen, but not on the public sidewalk, as that infringes upon the rights of others. No ono has the right to be in the presence of others In an intoxicated condition, as he is a nuisance. Com uion decency and the, safety of others must deny him such a right. No one has a moral right to be Intoxicated In-toxicated anywhere. Tills goes without with-out challenge from any one able to understand an argument. No ono has a clil right to get drunk. The first drink is the one to be avoided, for without it drunkenness Is impossible. If one has a right to become intoxicated, intox-icated, then tho manufacture and sale of liquor Is proper, and right, ns contributing con-tributing to a legitimate end. A man has a rliiht to build a house, and for this reason the manufacture nnd sale of the material Is legitimate. One has no right to make counterfeit money. And the manufacture or sale of stamps or dies for such a purpose Is unlawful unlaw-ful There Is a fable to the effect that a man, who was under obligation obliga-tion to an evil splnt. was given his choice of three crimes. He could LIBERTY IN PROHIBITION. J (V M. Healey.) By prohibition we mean prohibition oi the liquor busluesa by civil law. Has tho state a right to prohibit the' sale and the manufacture of intoxicating intoxi-cating liquor? It is -the duty of tho state to protect pro-tect all its citizens In the possession and exercise of their rights. In order or-der to secure the rights of all. every one must be prohibited from Infrlng-I Infrlng-I ing upon the rights of any. All acts and liberties must be related to, and prescribed by, those of other people. Kvcry one has the right to accumulate accum-ulate wealth, but he has uo right to do so by taking that which belongs to another. In so doing be tramples upon another's right, and forfeits his own property and llborty. The murderer mur-derer destroys another's right to life, and by that act forfeits his own natural nat-ural right to existence. A person living far from others may build his house of wood or straw, while, in tbe city, he may bo prevont- |