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Show Light Wines and Boer Would Be Bive Breeders Says Sheriff J. B. Boyd have lis jail In house lis drunkards. Today you can travel through liio same country for days and weeks and never nee an intoxicated person. per-son. The jails in the smaller towns are no longer needed as they are empty almost the year around. "Tho whole liquor question can be summed up today Just exactly ns when1 Robert G. Ingorsoll years ago made his famous address against the use of strong drinks, lie said: 'Wo are aware (here is a prejudice against the liquor crime or any man who manufactures alcohol. al-cohol. From the time it issues from the coil or poison worm till It empties into the jaws of death, it creates nothing but dishonor and crime and demolishes everything it touches on its course to where It ends. All you have to do Is to stop and look at the wrecks on either hunk of the stream of death, of the suicide.-i, of tho Insanity, of the destitution des-titution of little children tugging at the faded and withered breast of weeping and despairing mothers asking for bread of men of genius whose lives it has wrecked. It incites in-cites the father to murder his heli-less heli-less offspring, fills our almhouses, furnishes victims for our scaffolds, scaf-folds, makes wives widows, children chil-dren orphans, fathers 'fiends and all mendicant'." "There can be no middle ground on the prohibition question." So says Sheriff J. 1). Boyd of t'tali county, perhaps the most efficient ef-ficient nnd picturesque law enforcement en-forcement officer of the inter-mountain inter-mountain country. It Is not hearsay hear-say with Sheriff Boyd. lie speaks from net mil experience nnd bases his argument on things ns he has unserved 'them. Few men hnve had a wider experience exper-ience with liquor than has Sheriff Boyd. lie has seen It dished out hver the bars In the saloons In some of the toughest mining towns In the west during the early days of this section. lie has seen children go ragged and starving because the father and provider has squandered his meager income on liquor, lie lias also seen the effects of prohibition prohi-bition and Is confidant it has done more than anything lse to bring business nnd industrial prosperity to this country- Instead of want and desolation, he has seen the average family home transformed into n circle of happiness, with well dressed nnd well fed children. As an officer he has lately had the opportunity of visiting America's Amer-ica's neighbors to the north and to the south, aiid has become thoroughly thorough-ly acquainted with the damaging effects of permitting light wine and beer to be sold. "I have had a w ide experience on both sides of the liquor question bo-fore bo-fore nnd since prohibition," says Sheriff Boyd. "My firm conviction nfter carefully studying the situation situa-tion is that conditions have been greatly improved in the United States during the past five years under un-der prohibition. Thcro can be no middle ground to prohibition. It has either got to be all wet or all dry. Those who now are urging the introduction of light wines and beer on the ground that the present law cannot be enforced, do not real-i,e real-i,e the imiiossibiltyiof euforcng any kind of prohibition law after such a move. have been amused lately in reading the arguments from some of - our congresswomen who stylo themselves wet. They must be, since their arguments sound ns if they came from a bottle. Mrs. Kahiii congresswoman from California, said recently in one of her addresses that any woman "not favoring the modification of the prohibition law, is not only blind b it a coward. She declared she wants Ihe law changed to save the youths of Amer-ca. Amer-ca. I wonder if she is not rather trying to save the Califorira vineyards. vine-yards. Modification or no modification, mod-ification, the youths will be prohibited prohibi-ted from drinking even light wines and beers just as they are at present. pres-ent. I suppose there would he those dwarfed humans then as now who 1 would be willing to furnish the youths with things even stronger than the modified law would permit. per-mit. Temptations far greater tbau the present would be thrown open to the boys and girls of America. "It is my personal opinion, that those advocating such changes in the law are not only blind and cowards but weak-kneed and spineless spine-less as well. , '"People who complain about the high, cost of prohibition enforcement hnve not contemplated ilmt the thirty million dollars expended amounts to less than 25 cents pr capita, or less than the cost of one drink of moonshine for the emirr population of the United States. Did you ever think of the many more millions of dollars that used to be paid as salaries to the bartenders of the nation for pouring the liquid fire into human souls? "Light wines and beer would be nothing less than a dive lireder. Jt would create an appetite for stronger strong-er drinks and would increase rather than decrease the sale of moon) shine. It would legalize humnn vampires to do business which in the end would make paupers and beggars for the industrious people of the nation to support. "The world war was no more im-portant im-portant to wiu than is the present battle with the wet element. Liquor is at the bottom of more than 85 per cent of all crimes. Hince prevention pre-vention of crime, rather than the prosecution of the criminal, should be the aim of all human instil n-tons, n-tons, the sale of intoxicating drinks should never again be legalized. "While it is true that some situations sit-uations at present are far from perfect, per-fect, no one can deny there is a certain amount of prevention that . helps. "Across the international boundary bound-ary lines, where everything, is wide open, I have seen the cesspools of the earth with plenty of boosters to push young and old alike to ruin. 1 with no prevention or advice what- ' soever. 'Some people have the audacity to tell us that the liquor situation is worse today than it ever was that prohibition does not prohibit. Hefore prohibition you coidd see in1 one days travel from 75 to HKI persons under the influence of liquor. The gutters used to be more or less filled with them. Every little one-horse eoiumuuily had to |