Show r FACE THE SITUATION Rev P. P Gavan Dully Duffy In North American Review for December 4 1908 4 if It one ono has a nervous horse that shies at nl posts and pillars In a af f ff f town It Is manifestly absurd and impossible to remove each and f e every obstacle that abounds This would bo be no sane sono education of t the tho 4 animal The Tho danger lies not In tho the post the tho horse shies at but inthe in int t tf f tho the beast Itself Therefore tho tilo wise driver rl will wUl continue to lead or 4 whip his horse up to tho the disturbing causo cause to teach it control 4 On the practical side of ot the present day prohibition sm there thero I la is lat t 4 manifested manifold defects detects Men Ien will never be legislated into real 4 morality and in pinning so o much faith and value to law as a moral 4 reformer the prohibitionist t is evidencing a n decided weakness of ot hist his 4 t system em It is hero here that haste hutt is 18 so destructive c It has taken nine nine- 4 T teen hundred years of Christian teaching to bring mankind to the 4 state of ot control It has at It t Is foolish in the extreme to tot t 4 suppose suppo e that now in a few short years b by acts nets of ot legislation we are aro 4 going to root out ont a moral difficulty It is 19 the haste IH the wanting to 4 see Bee rO results that is the tile root of ot all nil this To a largo large degree It la is in itS Ita 4 motive commendable able but plainly Impossible if past history Is of any t 4 value 4 1 O 0 44 f- f ff f H 4 OP H f H OO t t 1 f t M t t m t t t M t t t M t 1 M Q |