| Show DOES prohibition PROHIBIT TRE THE nominee of the probia prohibition patty for the presidency of the U cited states has given to the public his hie letter ot of acceptance in his bis review of existing evils evile he does not confine himself to the liquor question his assertion that athla traffic costs coats the nation two billion dollars a year may not be credited by the average citi citizen zeD but when it to is remembered that liquor Is the source of an immense proportion of the crime poverty litigation and misery of this vou country it will be found that general Bidwel Pa figures are not overstated la Is prohibition the panacea for all the evils resulting from drink this is a question now bein being asked here and in englana england Engla nf in that country as ae in this the temperance reformers are divided into two factions the moral and absolute pro hibi tors the english bishop of chestor chester has recently pr bounced in favor of nat nationalizing the liquor trade that means something akin to what to is proposed at sioux falls in south dakota and the outline of which was given in these columns a few weeks since another well known english re former dr jayne in a letter recently published in the london times acknowledges that the liquor question is one which at national attention but he contends that the large body of absolute prohibitionists in england are an obstruction rather than an aid to effective legislation in the way of regulating the trade his theory to Is that even if prohibition laws were enacted they could never be enforced and that they would only lead to te disrespect for all laws jaws and to the corruption of the constituted author ittes however he does not claim that prohibition laws will alaways be impracticable but that by a course of regulative legislation the people can be educated or evo into prohibition though he be falls in with the bishop of chesters chef plan yet he would have the government saloons MIS provided with all kinds of temperance beverages and with amusements of various kinds he admits that a strong order of socialism ver pervades vades this scheme but thinks the drink evil to is so enormous that an experiment peri pert ment of any kind promising mitigation is worthy of trial he argues that it would be no more socialistic soc than the post office the school system the sanitary board and so on in this country there are several prohibition states and districts but it is claimed that prohibition does not prohibit and the moral here also maintain that effective regulative legislation is retarded by the extremists tre mists misto of the temperance party |
