Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1912 — Something For Some People To Think About Over Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Something For Some People To Think About Over Sunday.

Personal liberty is a mighty fine thing it not abused. Ordering a case of beer and keeping it at home is personal liberty and under the laws of the state of Indiana no one can take the liberty away from you. Probably many would not want to do so even if they could. It would be pronounced meddling and meddlers are not popular. But beer drinking leads to intemperance. very often, at least. It is at first a case of beer Occasionally; then a case every other week; then a case each week and a trip to Cedar Lake on Sunday. All this comes in the line of personal liberty, you will say, and we will agree. There is no argument about that. But are you not injuring yourself by this personal privilege? ' —— —— The writer talked to a man a day ‘ or two ago who has a tolerable good idea about who gets beer and. how 'much they get of it. He said that there were some men- who ordered a case of beer every week and some times more than one, whose children were denied the proper clothing to make them look respectable. One family had children sadly in need of shoes and a mother who needed better clothes. And this is personal liberty? It is the father’s liberty to satisfy a depraved appetite at the expense of the pride and comfort of his family. The beer does no good, absolutely none. Not a doctor in Rensselaer would recommend it; not a real friend of any one would advise or encourage it Often the prayers qf the wife and the pleadings of the children are against it A case of beer, are told, ‘ costs something like sl.-80. The express would bring the cost to $2. One • case a week would mean SIOO or more a-year. That much in clothing wduld create a lot of real happiness in* the

home. That much in a bank would constitute an investment that would soon provide a little home and shut off a lot of rent 5 s • Pergonal liberty is all right. But it ip a great deal better to have the class of personal liberty that will perpit a man to say: “I am. devoted to my family and what I earn goes to their support and their education and not to my own selfish pleasure.” Place personal liberty on a higher plane and think it over between now and the time when you are tempted to order another case of beer. Tennis shoes, barefoot sandals, Elkskin shoes and all hot weather specialties at Fendsg’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block.