Show FACTS P. AND NI TilE THE ARMY CANTEEN C. Chicago Chronicle No compromise compromise compro compro- mise with evil iI Is a moral maxim Of or orto two t evils choose the least Is another Of two tso evils choose neither Is still stil stilla a another not h en The rho question of or the time maintenance o othe or of orthe the army canteen has been argued from tram all standpoints The uncompromIsIng uncompromising ising prohibitionists have maintained that even if it the tho army canteen was ws b better better bet bet- t- t ter tel than the thc do erles surrounding army posts It should still be abolished because e the government ought not to tobe tobe tobe be in the sale o of liquor to Its own soldiers rs On the other hand people who profess pro pro- fess to advocate real ical temperance have asserted that the thc abolition of the canteen canteen can can- teen was an Immoral act because 1 it fl promoted d drunkenness anti and debauch debauch- CI cry Instead of or lessening lessenIng- them Such people claim that thiat sol soi- soi diers are arc better off oft physically am and amid morally when they can patronize the canteen than when the they are forc forced d to use the outside saloons This latter contention has late latel lately received the he support of th the oldest temperance or in Iii the thc United States States Slates Advance tent Or Order er of Recha Recha- bites of ot Washington D. D C. C It has ha probably been favored fa also alga by a ma ma- of or people who are uro not partisan n prohibitionists These latter of course cOUlse deny en It 1 S S J S W Q i OJ JY t lJ however Abstractedly ou ht to tobe be no no drunkenness neither should there thero be bc an any oth other I kind of or vice o om aI crime or wickedness But we kno know that there is js all ull manner of sin The question Is Shall we stand out for fOl a principle at the expense of practical results This Is the Issue which Is In Involved Involved in- in In iii the matter of or the lie arm army can can- teen Men lIen who are ale in a position to know kno army army of or all ranks are manks are s-are are practical practically unanimous in declaring that tha the abolition of the thc army canteen wa waa was wasa a blow to temperance in the lie army There Thoro has been a marked Increase in petty etly court martial for s sand and desertion There Theme is always paday pa pay payday Ila day trouble now though it H was re reduced reduced re- re to a tL minimum while thu tho canteen can cami- teen was ill in existence There Is no rio use in opposing tho the glitterIng glittering glit gIlt generalities or 01 moral observations to facts Hence there Is no use useIn useIn usein In well well-m well meaning women exclaiming against the sin and amid iniquity of the canteen when expert observation shows the canteen to be bo an agent for genuine temperance Instead of declaring the tho action o of the thc to bo be vcr very wrong Tong ant and ver very Wicked ed the thc women composing tho the most pretentious temperance organization or 01 om In Iii this country countr would do 10 better to abandon a policy which Is actually an encouragement to intemperance intern intern- perance though It Is ostensibly aimed at that tha vice |