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Show THE CITIZEN er selected hq j,c Harries to. carry out .their mandates and they, will see that makes good or repudiate him. ' " for- - Tiieir program consistently and religiously enforced may succeed iii driving a large number of citizens out of the city and county. It holds out glorious possibilities for. those who long for a chance to other peoples business, to heckle and command, and to view pry into binoculars. all mankind, except themselves, through indigo-blu- e attributes accorded But Harries, if possessed of the super-huma- n him by his sponsors, can do a great work for the community, if he so minded. For instance : He can have the street car fares lowered to five cents within the city limits ; he can get back the normal fares or the outer- precincts of his reform bailiwick; he can bring pressure to bear on the coal barons with the idea of reducing the abnormal coal prices to the consumer; he can get results by checking up on our foreign born population, and paying strict attention to those aliens who sport large and flashy automobiles ; he can keep white girls from roaming around with Orientals and others who are hei pursuing he ioi nei hid ai th . - ve iel for lam aw: hei eer leri aust hei n lx f0! thai -- them for apparently ulterior motives. Harries can possibly do these things; but he wont. He was elected to spy into dark cellars, up back alleys and down long lanes. He will probably institute a check-u- p of all the homes in the city to discover how many brewing establishments he can bring to light. He may even instruct his enforcement squads to frisk the populace ior concealed bottles and he will most surely make a bee-lin- e raid on every cigarette emporium within his special territory. Harries will be wfully busy; but if we are any prophet at all, we believe he will (discover that it will be tantamount to an attempt to sweep back the ean tides. It has been tried before and it has always failed to reform; but it has caused ceaseless strife and the garnering of much and considerable hate. So it appears that there is nothing else left for the liberals who upported Emery and Corless to do but .to organize, politically, to rotect their homes, their liberty and the sacred honor of the candi-te- s they sponsored. ill arcl inel: :iou Ihei stici The recent seizure of British ships outside of the three-mil- e limit and in fact twelve miles from shore to appease the mania of a certain clique of blue-laadvocates, because they carried liquor cargoes, is nothing, if not indicative of the great trouble-makin- g propensities of those who are chiefly interested in getting across certain personal designs, regardless of any consequences either domestic or international. The seizures referred to, of course, only resulted in the ultimate release of the ships and the restoration of the liquor cargoes down to the last pint. The incident pointed the way to very grave complications with Great Britain and only the good sense of President Harding and other officials saved the situation. It seems that if this incident had gone so far as to have presented unsurmountable obstacles, as between the two greatest maritime nations of the world had it really lead to war certaig blue-laelements of this country would have applauded and asserted that now was the United States really to engage in battle for the freedom of the masses of all nations. They would have gone even further had this direful result followed this risky experiment of grabbing foreign ships on the high seas, and demanded that America carry the prohibition war to all nations of the earth. There would have been another thirty year war started ; another crusade inaugurated; another protracted period of blood shedding and sacrifice. And to what end? Merely to gratify the mania of souls forever longing to meddle in and direct other peoples private affairs. So much for the foreign booze situation. Here at home we have new complications being brought about almost daily, and the latest the recent towering votes in Illinois, Ohio and New Jersey, where wet planks and wet candidates won hands down. It is not to be presumed that the good people of the U. S. A. want the saloon to return. There is no such idea or demand contained in the way they are. voting in favor of light wines and beer in those states where they are given .a chance to record their wishes. But and repressive liquor they do want, a change in this law. They want sanity and common sense to prevail. For too long of the cohorts of they have stood for the clamor and the darkness, who. would return the world and its civilization back to the dark ages when men and women were mere chatties and the abject slaves of regulators and over-lord- s. This country is evidently laboring under the strain of a dual psychology. On the one hand the large majority of people feel an urge for greater expression of personal freedom surging through them long for a return to those distant days when a man was a free moral agent and a child of God unfettered, unhampered and unafraid. This other psychology, that has taken hold of and apparently stifled the very manhood of the manority, holds all mans normal desires of expression to be bold, damnable and untrue to his higher nature. They fail to recognize that the great majority know nothing of this higher nature and seemingly care less about it. So this minority, having failed to do what it desired by education, has now resorted to law to enforce its mandates, and with lamentable success, has so complicated our modern civilization that a change must come either for better or worse. It appears that the salvation of the sanity of the nation hinges on giving the majority of the people what they want in pure instead of doctored liquors and quite evidently they want light wines and beer. To do less is to invite trouble within the borders of our own land, which will make the recent stunt in which Great Britain demanded and secured full recognition of her national rights, seem like a sweet scented breeze blowing from off a California vineyard in full bloom. ultra-regulato- . on 5 w . w ultra-repressi- ve flag-wavi- A CHANGE IS COMING. Judge Hand of the Federal Court for New York, ruled (that American ships cannot carry or dispense liquors, he virtually tended the force and the effect of the Eighteenth Constitutional endment to the four corners of the earth so far as this country is concerned. Judge Hand based his ruling solely on the law and the vidence in the case at issue and dryly remarkied that it would be a urious thing if a country professing under its fundamental law to for-i- d use of intoxicants, was to allow them without stint upon ships When atioi Joh) anl vhidl thj uadsl mis , hat anl sailed under its flag. In the face of this ruling, sought by Attorney General Daugherty; the ocean-goin- g ships of Uncle Samuel became as legally dry as the term plains of the Sahara Desert, and consequently fertrherj ile resorts for the irrepressible and effervescent bootlegger. Today nn t is claimed n that an army of dispensing agents )ub!i ake passage on every American ship that sails out of any American vhidl ft for a foreign land, and ply their wet-watrade to their own lassfl feat emolument ; and, it is needless to add, to the everlasting cort. net of those few Americans who patronize their own ships. )f th Aside from the not serious, but entirely natural results of the isrupj Uft mandate extending absolute prohibition to American ships, no !grat jatter where they may roll, or where they cast anchor, this very poli flocent ruling of Judge Hand, caused eminently serious complicaictorJ tes with about every foreign nation that sends ships to this country. rativ e fact that American ships are, for booze dispensing purposes, thd dd to be actual American soil, was seemingly extended to every ship the frMle vithin .the three-rmillimit of our costal waters. Ambitious j )pe Persons, who love to control others better than to control themselves, then taby dint of pressure brought to bear upon high government offi- .tended the dry zone to twelve miles from shore and the certain to capture of foreign ships and the confiscation of their liquor car? ;e. ftps by ships of the prohibition navy, had caused international com-- P W Nations which have as yet hardly been smoothed over. nor ed spseudo-hallucinatio- re ry self-appoint- ng ed free-thinki- so-call- ng ed ultra-repressi- ve ship-grabbi- ng WARE THE CANCELLATIONISTS. e twaddlers from New York financial circles are still bent on making the United States pay the full costs of the world war through cancellation of her foreign debts. This sort of chatter makes the real American weary. To talk of American isolation is in itself a proof of disingenuousness. Pseudo-mor- al |