People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — Hanging grove. [ARTICLE]

Hanging grove.

I desire to say something on the temperson question Mr. Editor, and submit these short comments. Does not the law require that a man shall be of good moral character to obiain a license to sell liquor? and, if our county commissioners are jnst what they ought to be, would they not requiie them to present evidence from good, responsible citizens and not allow them to bring saloon bums in to prove their character? Does not our commissioners know that a man of good moral chiratcer will not sell liquor? Can lie be moral who will sell that which engqndej’s evil? Is he a man, let some one tell, or an incarnate devil? Can.true philanthropy possess the heart of him, who for a shilling wilt till with rum his neighbors glass and turn him reeling from the door? Can he enjoy religion pure who spreads intoxication and causes many to imure themselves to dissipation? Reader.