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Show the law prohibits every American citizen from i taking a drink, at home or abroad? - If these citizens persist in drinking when they go to Canada Can-ada or Mexico or jet away from the three-mile limit, the prohibitionists might have their citizenship citizen-ship rights revoked. This would make it so that the average American would either have to be a man without " a country or a man without a drink. In this way, eventually, the prohibitionists might reduce the citizenship to those of their own ranks, and everybody would be satisfied. eaenwaamslannnBnwanaMaseawaa. ''Dry" Ocean. Klll.f m. - - i... i VJR at least a week people accustomed to aJtrarellnr on the witer outside of the three-mile three-mile limit -will not 'know whether they will be permitted to buy drinks on American ships or not The attorney general has taken the argument argu-ment under advisement, so to speak, and does not expect to reach an immediate decision. For the life of us we cannot see why the prohibitionists prohibi-tionists take the prolonged course of enforcing prohibition, unless it is to continue some of their highly paid officers in work. - Here they are squabbling as to whether American Amer-ican ships on the high seas constitute American territory or not Even if they win they are not going to make the world any more dry. The only effect of a victory on this point would be to divert American travel to foreign ships. When it comes to money, the prohibitionists have the old line sailors in the piker class. There seems to be no price too high for the desired ends of the prohibitionists. For them we have destroyed the revenue we had from the liquor traffic without with-out materially affecting the consumption of liquor: Likewise we have placed millions at their disposal for the e$prM purpose of enforcing the act, and the only effect of the move has been to ruin the quality of the liquor. Now it is proposed to have the same order on the high seas, automatically auto-matically driving a good part of the ocean traffic to foreign ships. Apparently the prohibitionist can see nothing but prohibition and Is quite willing to sacrifice everything else in its behalf. But why go to all this trouble ? Why worry about American territory? Why not told. that |