4 GET ON THE WATER WAGON. moonshine district and confiscated the illicit stills, 'and they are taking them down to the Government scr^p heap.” Jesus Christ was God’s revenue ouicer. Now, the Jews were forbidden to eat pork, but Jesus Christ came and found that crowd buying and selling and dealing in pork, and confiscated the whole business, and He kept within the limits of the law when He did it. Then the fellows ran back to those who owned the hogs to tell what had befallen them, and those hog-owners said to Jesus: “Take your helpers and hike. You are hurting our business.” And they looked into the sea and the hogs were bottom side up, but the men were right side up. And Jesus said, “What is the matter?” And they answered, “Leave our hogs and go.” A fellow says it is rather a strange request for the devils to make, to ask permission to enter into hogs. I don’t know—if I was a devil I would rather live in a good, decent hog than in lots of men, and if you will drive the hog out you won’t have to carry slop to him, so I will try to help you get rid of the hog. And they told Jesus to leave the country. They said: “You are hurting our business.” “Have you no interest in manhood?” “We have no interest in that; just take your disciples and leave, for you are hurting our business.” That is the attitude of the liquor traffic toward the Church, and State, and Government, and the preacher that has the backbone to fight the most damnable, corrupt institution that ever wriggled out of Hell and fastened itself on the public. I am a temperance Republican down to my toes. Who is the man that fights the whisky business in the South? It is the Democrat! They have driven the business from Alabama; they have driven it from Georgia, and from Mississippi, and Tennessee, all but three cities; and out of 100 counties in Kentucky. And they have driven it out of 147 counties in Texas, and out of North Carolina. And it is the rock-ribbed Democratic South that is fighting the saloon. They started this fight that is sweeping like fire over the United States. You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with tooth nicks
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