THE NATIONAL CURSE.

Evening Star, Issue 11695, 29 September 1902, Page 8

THE NATIONAL CURSE.

to Tent zmxtn Sir,—“ Bothasberg ” can hardly be Congratulated on the moral status'he adopts or the moral code be advocates; drunkenness is no disgrace, therefore none- of the troopers disgraced themselves or their uniform. He demands proof. Well, I simply stated what I had. seen. For , the rest, proof is needless; the thing proved itself. It was painfully before the eyes of the public and in the public Press’, h are and elsewhere, on land and sea. One need only read the article in the ‘Star’ of September 24 on the subject. He says that the disgrace lies on the “ informer.” Evidently he would have crime committed with impunity, and criminals go free to ravage the community like wild beasts, and none are to dace lift a hand to check or a voice to “ inform ” against them. Perhaps God’s opinion cn those subjects may be slightly different. Throughout the Bible drunkenness is accounted vile, disgraceful, contemptible, with the inexorable sentence: “No drunkard shall inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.” And most certainly the drunkard-maker will never enter there. Nothing but “woe” is pronounced against him. Then, as to the “informer.” Throughout the Bible, whenever the subject crops up, God’s people are commanded —yes, commanded—to ‘ search out diligently ” law-breakers and evil-doera, to bring them to justice, and witness (inform) against them. “And so shall ye clear the evil out of the land.” It is an honor to do so—a service to God and humanity. —l am, etc., Watcbxe. September 28.