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Show To Offden and return Sand ays Tin O. B. L. for tl.no. If. you H take the time to come up here some day and let us show you the water we wash your linen in, you 11 know the reason it looks so nice. We ! take out all the muddy part. HE TITOS ABOUT Piiiil BY HERBERT CECIL LEWIS It hu town th priTilcga, u woU u th provino. of the Army and Navy Magazine to lay bare things aa they really are. We owe no allegiance to any man or any set of men, and, therefore, we are in a position to tpeak the truth at we know it This article is inspired by the attempt of. a new-fledged Senator of the United States to compel the passage of a bill in the extra session of Congress, limiting the number of saloons in the District of Columbia by one of the most nonsensical and threadbare methods that ever was proposed in the august body to which he belongs. There are now more than five hundred saloons in the District, but he proposes in a bill he introduced recently to reduce this number to about one hundred. A pity it is, but 'tis true, that he has done so. because it rather leads us to believe that his future usefulness in the Senate is not apparent. The restrictions which the embryo statesman from California places on the location of saloons are to the average man, familiar with local conditions, ridiculous in the extreme. ex-treme. He would have no'saloona anywhere except on business streets, and, as we all know who live in Washington, there are mighty few business streets here. In othef words, he would compel the man who lives "far from the mad'ning crowd" to take a street car ride in order, to get a drink of his favorite beverage, We would consider this an unnecessary hardship to tha individual, as well as a sacrifice of the property righto of the saloonkeeper who now Is located In residential sections. Again, the gentleman who wears the California toga has shown his absolute ignorance ignor-ance of local conditions by stipulating in hisbill that there shall be no saloons within three blocks of an alley used for resident purposes, from our personal knowledge of the topography of the city of Washington, and after careful study of the map of the District of Columbia, we are positive that there are not twenty alleys in the whole city which are not used to a greater or leu degree for residential purposes. In view of this fact, the gentleman's bill would practically legislate every saloon -in Washington out of existence. With all due respect to the author of this bill, our opinion is that it would prove a mean, slimy, slippery way of bringing about prohibition tn the District of Columbia without any regard for the opinion of its inhabitants. Fortunately, there are men in Congress who have sense enough to recognise what this bill means and who will never consent to its passage, ' Reformers, with an eye to the social purity of Washington, have come to Congress before now and we have been present, as interested spectators, at their political obsequies. ob-sequies. At this juncture a question enters our. mind in fact, several questions. Was the Senator from California burdened with the weight of the viciousness he has seen in the nation's Capital, or was he acting as the mouthpiece of the prohibitionists prohibition-ists (whose slogan it Is "to get there somehow") when he introduced this bill? Senator Works (Works is a name worth studying) comes from the great state of : California, whose Vintages are reoognised throughout the world because of their splendid - quality. Millions of dollars flow into th National Treasury every year from first-class saloons, hotels, elubs and wine merchants who handle thee goods. Who. is getting Worked and who Is doing the Working? That's the question. How has prohibition worked out in ths 8Uts where it has been tried? i The greatest blot on the prohibition movement is its absolute failure wherever it ha been given free rein. North Dakota came into the Union with a constitutional provi-lion provi-lion prohibiting the sal of intoxicating liquors. Th population of this state is composed com-posed largely of Germans and Norwegians. What is th condition of this state at th present writing? . Her ar th facU as related to me during a recent trip: The German buys his beer from Minnesota by th barrel. Th Norwegian drinks pure alcohol and glories In its jag-like propensities In this state nobody pays license to the local government, while hundreds of "Blind Pigs," selling the worst kind of concoctions, con-coctions, flourish and make money for their , politically-protected proprietors. r Georgia is another typical prohibition state. There is not a day in th year when the police records of any city in this pur (?) state do not give evidence of more eases of intoxication than any other city of similar sise in the United States. These are facts and .'Tact are stubborn things." From our personal observation under prohibition, "Blind Tigers" appeal to be the prevailing law in Georgia. ' - , . t v Why is it necessary for an American eitisen to descend to such subterfuges In order to obtain something that his brother in another state considers his legal, individual right? Drinking is not a crime, while drunkenness is, and personally we have seen some of the most brilliant statesmen in the Nation's Capital enjoy their drink while talking over questions of great moment If it is a crime for a poor man to drink it certainly should be a crime for men who have been endowed with ability and genius to do so. Th intelligent people of every state in th Union must soon wake up to th enormous enor-mous crime of prohibition. It was begotten in the most narrow-minded bigotry and its life must be short I e This question brings us back to a reform that is dear to th Army and Navy Mag-asine Mag-asine we refer to the restoration of the Canteen System la the United States Army. , Our correspondent with the troops on th Mexican frontier informed us in a recent dispatch dis-patch that: ".The present mobilisation is a splendid argument for the' restoration of the canteen. can-teen. The sntir northern boundary of 'the encampment is lined with saloons and cheap amusement resorts. Among the places ar rat's Place, the Tower, named after the beautiful beau-tiful Port Bam Houston clock tower, the. Coney Island, th Mexioo, and a dosen others , just as suggesthre." Th miserable spectacle of twelve hundred United States soldiers out of the mobilised mobil-ised army of twenty thousand deserting In Texas is, according to the bVt informed authorities, largely due to the vicious places referred to by our. correspondent The abolition of the canteen in the Army was an unforgivable sin that was legislated under the nam of reform? - Prohibition is a fallacy and its chief exponents are people like a good, motherly, but misinformed woman whose ideas were revealed in a letter to a United States Senator recently. This Senator, with a fellow toga-bearer, was discussing the Works bill. He said, laughingly: "Do you know, apropos, I received a letter this morning from a very estimable woman in my state demanding that I should immediately proceed to the Treasury Treas-ury Department, oust the Commissioner of Internal Keren u and all the employes and turn the key in the door." Army and Navy Magasine. . 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