Show THE BATTLE OF THE BOTTLE It really begins to look Jook like a prohibition pro pro- country P. P A. A Baker Daker general superintendent of the saloon anti league of the United States told the house judiciary that there are people in the United States living in prohibition ter ter- This is an increase of In tho last year ear when hen 26 out of 34 4 state legislatures then in session passed various temperance measures Mr Baker advocated the passage of oC the Littlefield bill which makes liquor i In n Interstate traffic subject to the laws Jaws of the state Into which It Is shipped Representative Kahn of California a asked that the thc bill be amended so as asto aso asto t to o permit the theine wine ine manufacturers of California to continue to engage in interstate interstate in in- t commerce If the law Jaw was p passed assed and no exception made In the I interests of the California wine growers grow grow- grown e ers m the foreign manufacturers of wine Mr Kahn contended would have t tho he monopoly in the United States as t the he proposed law could not prevent the i Importation of foreign wines into prohibItion prohibition pro pro- h territory and would so discriminate discriminate dis dis- dis- dis c criminate against the California growers grow ers who could not go Into prohibition prohibition tion territory S But But there is no use closing the eyes eyes' to the fact that reason is resuming her sway In the affairs of the average man as to liquor quite as ns much as with nn any other subject There are all sorts of propositions But Dul the one big thing is that the people of this republic l lic ie have hare drank too much for their own good They have felt vastly superior to the unspeakable Turk But Bul they have been a great greal deal more bestial in their drunkenness than the Turks have ha been They have looked down on the Chinese and the Japs and the East Indians And yet et it is doubtful if there is a willingly accepted custom cus cus- tom torn of or an any people so expensive and debasing as is the habit of or liquor drinking in America That is the plain truth about it and It-and and the tho men mop who drink c concede the position position position tion most cheerfully In the South the people have settled the matter They have so EO nearly cut out all the tho drink that a bar below Mason and Dixons Dixon's line is getting mighty lonesome And the forces are coming north and west The They are going to get us The They are going to tomake tomako tomako mako make every state in the Union capable capable cap cap- able of dispensing with liquor If do do- sired There will be an emancipation There will be a da day of or freedom And the states states' and the counties that want to be sober sobol and free will be so Tho The nation has been drinking too much The nation has been young and has followed a number of follies It is getting older and more sensible It is going to be more sober There is going to be bo a better future The Tho battle of ot the bottle will be the breaking of oC the bottle |