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Show PROHIBITION VS. TEMPERANCE In Germany, where prohibition is unknown and where all the people have been temperate drinkers of wholesome beers and light wines, there is less drunkenness than in Maine or in Kansas, the two most conspicuous prohibition states in the Union. The same is true of France and Italy. Tim world over you will find that the really temperate temper-ate races are those who are not prohibited from drinking temperate beverages such as beer and wine. Prohibition in Germany, France or Italy would produce exactly the same results that it has produced pro-duced in every state in the Unicn where prohibitory prohibi-tory laws have been enacted. It would not stop men from drinking, nor decrease drunkenness, drunken-ness, but it would drive out the mild drinks and encourage men who do drink to resort secretly se-cretly to the highly concentrated spirits. If prohibition really saved men fiom tlu "curse of drink" it would have more to commend com-mend it to the intelligence of the people Hut, as the great editor, Henry Watterson, observes in the Louisville Courier-Journal, "It does not promote either temperance or virtue. It arouses human passion to frenzy by restricting private rights. It does not reduce drunkards. It multiplies multi-plies Pharisees and malefactors." Seattle Argus. |