Show FRENZIED a Species of Oppression and An Insult to Moral Man- While it is true that we scarcely ever have the evils of drink brought home to us in the intimate lives of our own while our with the need no such outward restraint prohibition would yet we should be heartless indeed the Jew would be unworthy of the great privileges of if we could find it in hearts to decide questions purely selfish and personal We are not blind by means to the political and social influence of the little as we seem to suffer from the hoodlum-breeding bars behind the corner we are far from ferent to vice-and crime foster among our business our former our our our our indignation are constantly stirred by fearful havoc which is wrought through the utter unrestraint under which saloon are allowed to this extent it is impossible for any upright man not to harbor some sympathy the prohibition It isa because it has been goaded on by it was the excess of vice that has lent strength to it and in the its very may serve to put brakes upon the drink and to constrain it The people who are embarked in the may be intemperate in their pu with every teaching of past they prompted hy motives and earnest entitled and sympathy honors of I it duty of every American who has made the of our civilization hi's own to protest against prohibition a species of intolerance and as an insult to our moral as a childish and shallow misinterpretation- of human as a hopeless attempt to correct Divine To tell me that I must not drink wine or because some men will make beasts of lacking is absurd and out of all to bar an enjoyment which is harmless in the enormous majority of because it is abused in a is to apply the law in the wrong deprive that man of his' liberty who does not know how to use treat him as a as non compos confine disgrace do all you by medical treatment or legal to make a rational man of him but why should the whole community be put into fetters that here and there an individual might be If we were to act upon that with regard to all other might as- well stop because some men can not open their mouths without becoming abusive we to block the avenues of because some men are at if that is manifestly we ought to every harmless because the danger present all the time that it might degenerate into dissipation and Men Who Are Its Advocates' And this is just the intemperate and fanatical spirit from which prohibition has- The men who are its most enthusiastic and consistent advocates are the same people who would suppress to whom attendance on the is a will not card games in no matter how innocent a who would the Sabbath a cheerless and joyless day of who know of any other method worship of godliness except Sunday school and prayer hymn and A Mistaken Policy It is a mistaken policy J education of the individual J a as- of the commonwealth to J crate the line between the lj 1 less and the To J beer and wine are rank that they ruin the taste of them is to go down to 3 mythical nether world sulphurous fumes we p cowards and dolts all this is SJ i ply adding allurement to ji it invests with powers the it j a countless company of the bel men that ever of poet t and of and into one indiscriminate heap of devil's brood and seeks to per t suade the young man that his M n delightful draft of young has delivered his soul the j nal The state should remove of it should agencies of possible danger in their proper but ti state renders a poor ii to the moral backbone of i it exhibits little confident in the moral manhood of the pE pie treating like puts a complete es bargo upon candy fa babies might gorge lit MAX HELLER American April |