| Show L A Pennsylvania Prohibitionist T. A. Seward of Pennsylvania Takes Issue with v H. Paul on the Much Mooted Question Editor of the some time ago you requested me to write you something you could publish may have forgotten it purposely or but I am constrained to do you very well know if I did write what the trend of my article would I read your well edited paper every look for w-it with and when it's a day or two I sometimes wonder if it been I have a good laugh over nearly every number and you know that does any one admire your and I think you can say the meanest things in the fewest words of any man I I am inclined to in the language of the fellow that told Joe when he rushed his men into the thickest of a certain admire your but damn your Drop I saw in your issue of October a well written article by J. H. Of I and I think of his article as he docs of the agitation of the prohibition it is Why agitate with Governor Spry in the If you had an ex-Governor Hanley in the there would not be as much need of I but with a whiskey governor in the the more is the and more is the The my prohibition is good in bub a practical failure in I very much doubt if the ever saw it in is settled for four Is not some poor woman and children suffer from the effects of this accursed liquor traffic for the next four years you have a governor in the and a legislature in your state that are and to protect this and say to a few sharks and money a price we will let you sell that which not only maddens the but sends the soul to eternal Has it ever entered into your that such is the and would you advise For I am persuaded that you know these they are not done in a waste of is prodigal dissipation of brain power and a loss of nervous Did it ever occur to that the man who fills his stomach with lle and also takes a bottle full and beats his wife and loses any brain Sometimes the energy remains for a till the stimulant is worn but do you that your brain would be in a better condition after you had quite an agitation over the cause that is for four I cannot believe but what you think and as your Paul said to King thou the I know that thou anti-saloon in one futile argument after is hammering but various local country papers' are likewise printing patent inside prohibition often of the rankest But for Will not some editor kindly rise and explain what he is trying to Won't he tell us what he is aiming I am not a country nor even a newspaper man at but I am a and spell Prohibition with a capital P I see you do and I think T can tell you what this country prohibition editor is aiming He is not shooting at a mark for so far away that he knows in advance he cannot hit lie is shooting at just such men as and your and that portion of your legislature that you say you are not but anxious to defeat all or derogatory to the liquor it for the same reason that the fanatical wave of prohibition has recently swept over the Do the editors really be lieve in or do they print those arguments simply because they suppose the majority of their readers believe If so I might have to about this righteous prohibition craze now in the In answer to I would say they do really believe in absolute and many of their readers believe it we would be very glad to hear that you have to this righteous prohibition in the but before you say too much first find that it was not the party that started that but the sober men of the Democratic party wiio started for sanitary and humane and I am not only sorry that the craze might not have more of not only in the south but that it might reach up as far north and west as What In Alabama the law forbids all citizens to have wines or liquors in their own and authorizes the invasion of the home by search warrant to discover And them the doctor cites a case of the deputy sheriff searching the home of one Nelson for suspected of being on or around the and he gi ves it in the language of lady Nelson who said the deputy our beds upside ransacked bureau writing trunks in daughters' room the girls had to take their clothing out of their trunks with the deputy standing over them and the only liquor they found in the whole search was a half pint bottle in the sideboard drawer and that the deputy carried away with Another case was where a man was refused permission to have wine at his daughter's Some he in our own might be able to recall the time when deputy marshals without burst into the private dwelling at any time of the day or night and inmates by their and sometimes brutal searches after supposed offenders against a federal statute- and arm officers with such arbitrary power simply givS them the and under they seem ready and willing to exercise that authority the to late the sanctity of any home whenever they might or pretend to suspect that a bottle of wine is concealed And then he asks his neW paper brethren the momentous liberty worth the boast of the right of every to drink and wear whatever tt so long as he does not with the rights of there is your Nine-tenths of the drunkards do interfere with the rights of others and mostly with the rights of the helpless wife and the innocent It is the same old put into different whiskey alone and it will let you I have no time or space to cite You know it if you will stop and think only for a When above are permitted and even encouraged by a mau's own house or the wedding of these are as nothing to the There has been many a noble daughter married without and none ever the worse for and the outrage sinks into insignificance in comparison with the outrages' cawl by the sale of the accursed to a man who his and the children flu from him as they would fromi rattlesnake or a Englishman's home is hi loses its meaning your genuine does the drunkard's home low under the whiskey all its pray Will you attempt to answer these tyrannous will soon be evaded no they are evaded all over the andi every state in which this grote que wearing the of righteousness is enacted The ultimate goal of the W and honest prohibitionist is down the liquor and if you can't do it with one bio give it and you can't destroy the the Devil one have us You then ask what can be and answer it by by Keep all women out of the you all Then you would have hit i There was in a certain a covered bridge over quite a large This bridge afforded a nice place for the children to A short plank on the side of the bridge got loose and finally dropped leaving a dangerous hole through which several of children fell and were rescued Their parents got together and made up their minds that a committee be appointed from below the bridge to watch out and help the youngsters of the but one old a little ahead of the rest in suggested that it might be as well to put a new plank over the and thus' considerable anxiety less work for the parents If the doctor had as much wisdom as the old I hardly think he would suggest abolishing the screens from the saloon r or limit the hours of selling or even a number of the even if is a bad thing for the But as long the doctor's is all right to the in any opposed to the use of opposed to and drunkenness as among the greatest evils of yet he believes that prohibition cures these evils nor sufficiently palliates them to warrant the American people to give up their personal liberty for a and ineffectual don't cover up the hole in the fish the children out that may fall Of story of the hole in the bridge is not very but it is on the same line with the doctor's remedy for the it seems to me that it is a pretty late day for a doctor to apologize for the liquor The medical if he has studied his knows full well the effects it has on the human and I am very much surprised to see such a man as J. H. as able and ready a writer as at this stage of the game to out matter for public print and expect the reading people of Utah or any other state to believe A few and it may be as many who want see this liquor traffic may make themselves believe but thinking men and thinking Now I think I have written enough for this Pardon me for my plain but I do like to know which side of the fence a man stands on and I can't but recall the story of the old mother in She lived with her two sons in She was a American type of a And as she saw the red coats approaching her she seized the tongs and the frying ran out the her two sons crying after stay in the house and keep you can't do any said the old can let them know to a certainty which side I am If every one would let us to a certainty which side they were the world would be the better for and their writings would have more and their readers would know they T. A. |
