Show prohibition NOT A FAILURE from good health magazine the wets are continually harping upon the failure of federal state and municipal officers to enforce prohibition they picture in lurid harld colors the terrible things that are going to happen to the country because of 0 the impossibility 1 ot of suppressing the sale and use of 0 liquor and the disrespect tor for law and increase of crime that will bo be the result have these objectors ever heard about laws against sexual immorality and prostitution possibly they are so familiar with lawbreaking law breaking in this line that they have quite forgotten that there are drastic laws against sex crimes ot of all sorts on the statute books of every state and federal statutes as well vell notwithstanding the open flagrancy with which liquor laws are being violated in many parts of the country there are plenty ot of places where vice laws are still more flagrantly disregarded indeed it can hardly be doubted that sex immorality is even more rife in this country at this very moment than is violation of 0 the eighteenth amendment shall we then abolish all laws against vice or lessen their vigor because they are not and cannot be fully enforced will even the wets make such 1 a demand probably not even though to do so would be quite with the general trend ot of their arguments and their activities intemperance like sex immorality Is a a vice by means of the prohibition amendment it Is outlawed like white slavery and this Is the first and fundamental edep p toward the suppress suppression lo of a vice which h has as tor for so many centuries been permitted to wear a garb of respectability in decent society because of the tolerance and apathy of the sober end decant majority nobody expects all men and women lo 10 0 o be ae made moral and virtuous by laws against vice but the welfare of society demands that immorality shall not be ie permitted to stalk abroad in full daylight and hold up its Is arrogant head among decent citizens this was the great reason tor for the abolition of the license system as applied to prostitution to license the brothel was to legalize it and make it a part of the organized life of the community licensed prostitution was abolished and that notwithstanding th the fact act that the he same arguments were offered in favor of the license system that ars now offered la in favor of abolition of the prohibition amendment alcohol is an enemy of the individual the state the nation the race prostitution is twin sister to intemperance there Is no rational ground for or compromise with either of these masterful vices in most latin countries both vices are tolerated eye eve condoned A titled french lady visiting lady henry somerset in england said to her hos day 1 I must return home my son has breached reached such an age that I 1 must select a mistress for him thi the late well known french humorist max orell told the writer that nearly every well to do young man in france supported a tress ress tor for some years before marrying it t he ever did marry he gave this as the chief reason tor for the low bikih birthrate in france when asked as kedi do the parents know certainly certainly t they ickow mow he rei replied lied botsay bu tsay nothing in mexico it is not uncommon for a business man politician P physician n or even a prie priest it to havi have tac armore families tiie the families live apart sometimes in different towns but the children are often well acquainted quain ted and on good terms and the social standing of 0 the father is not at all impaired this lowering ot of moral standards Is the inevitable result ot of compromise no 0 good results there Is certainly no less immorality and no lessoning lessening ot of the evil results ot of vice diseases because ot of the tolerance no possible good could come from a compromise with intemperance alcohol Is at last outlawed Mora morality liti has triumphed to the extent of 0 tearing from the liquor traffic its garb of respectability it has become beco mean an outlaw and a criminal like its stater sister vice and it must be kept where it is and alere where it belongs by honest and persevering efforts to enforce the act and by nationwide campaigns of education we may hope to gradually lessen bootlegging and the use ot of moonshine whisky but we shall never make any headway in delivering the race from the awful curse of alcohol by rendering Us its use more convenient more safe or more respectable the real trouble at the present time is just what has always been the trouble troubie namely apathy the apathy of 0 the drys just as the presence of brothels and indecent dance halls are due to the apathy of the good people who at heart are opposed to vice unfortunately tuna tely a large proportion of 0 so call ed good people are passive in their goodness and are quite willing to leave it to providence and the few who are willing to fight for the right whereas the wets like the patrons of vice in general are all always ready to battle against anything which threatens to curtail ther their so called personal liberty and their opportunities tuni ties tor for vicious indulgence this was quite evident in the recent referendum conducted by the literary digest which seemed to show a majority tor for abolishing or amending g the esth amendment every icet wet sent in a vote but probably not one in ten of ol 01 the drys ili thought ought it necessary to cast a a preposterous a propos irlon i s lf it all the good people ot of the average community will make up their minds that no house of prostitution or place of immoral resort shail shall be tolerated there will be no trouble whatever in securing the law enforcement in relation to prostitution and there probably would be very few communities in the united states which could not be quickly purged of open immorality although at the present time it Is as generally conceded that prostitution can not be suppressed as that bootlegging can not be wholly stopped both these evils may be eradicated one as completely as the other when those who are opposed to them will take earnest an and d united action against them the effort to carry out the eighteenth amendment lias has thus far been a halfhearted half halt hearted one the fault Is s chiefly that of officials and people r of high standing many of the men who are employed as agents tor for the suppression ol of the manufacture and liquor are themselves in sympathy with liquor drinking and bootlegging and are often in collusion with criminals the use of liquor by high dovirn government ment officials Is very common and and often with almost no attempt at concealment unquestionably an attempt is being made iliade hy by the wets and by politicians who are their willing aids to make the people of the United states believe that prohibition Is impractical pr ac and enforcement impossible I 1 careful inquiry into the facts would pro probably bally show that the majority of these same people hold at heart the same attitude with reference to prostitution tit ution nobody believes that it Is possible to mare make people temperate by law any more than people can be e made chaste by law but the Inte interests reste of good society and decency are greatly promoted edby by the fact that obscenity and prostitution tit ution are by statute made unlawful and thus put under a ban and tho the interests of good society demand that the manufacture sale and use of liquor shall bo be not only placed but kept under the same ban ot of and criminality the prohibition amendment eat to the constitution of the united states was one of the greatest steps forward ever made in human progress and to abolish or emasculate the amendment would be a stupendous calamity to civilization |