Freedom or liberty in animals is following instinct and underlying appetite.  Not so with man; to the reverse.  It is the freedom of conscience and will, from the bondage of ignorance of the person, the gratification of appetite and passion.  The body is a good servant, but a tyrant when it is master.  A man must be master or slave.  One must first, like Daniel, “purpose in his heart that he will not defile himself”.  Liberty or freedom is only attained by prohibition of opportunity to do wrong to ourselves or allow any one else to do so.  Citizenship not only requires one to obey law but must see that others do so also.

The principles of government are founded on liberty and self-control.  Drunkenness is a loss of self-control.  Anything that animalizes men, is a menace to the life of the state and prevents the purpose of government.  Thus replacing the weapon of destruction in the hands of its foes and the danger is great, because so many citizens are under the domination of their own will and passion.  This class is being multiplied by this licensed crime.  These willing classes are an integral part of the nation.  By licensing rum, we are fostering a power that is increasing the weakness, and preventing the self-control of its citizens.  This is conspiracy, treason, black as night.  Some plead the revenue of our wealth.  Our wealth is in our citizens.  The state can not add to its treasury at the expense of its manhood without punishing herself.  The state must guard the character of its citizens.  It can not make them honest but it must punish dishonesty; can not make them humane, but it must prohibit an act of inhumanity; and should oppose and forbid every license that man would desire or try to obtain that which would allow such gratification of the animal over the moral.

The nation is what its homes are.  The family first, then the nation.  Nothing can injure an individual or a family that is not an injury to the state.  The fight for firesides means a fight for our national life.  Our revolutionary sires fought for this.  This is the fight that Carry A. Nation is making.  It is the heart of love, liberty and peace.  Some of these thoughts I have copied from an article I read on a few leaves of a torn pamphlet, no name.  But the writer has the true meaning of government.  I am a prohibitionist because I am a christian.  I want to get to heaven.  None but prohibitionists ever do.  Hell is made for those who take license to sin.

Hell’s conspiracy.

England has the same struggle that we have.  The government conspiring against the people.  This article from the pen of Lady Carlisle tells of the same vile plot the Prime Minister of England sustains, the brewer against the people, just as Roosevelt and his crowd here: 

          Thepeople’s struggle against the liquor trade. 
               (Spirited appeal by Lady Carlisle.)