Show A VERY FOOLISH ARGUMENT In its recent attack on the men and women who are working for temperance temper temper- ance reform tho the Tribune fell into theold the tho old error of or claiming that unrestricted sale of liquor makes for a prosperous city and that enforcement of liquor laws kills business The Tho same line lino of argument i is advanced ad ad- always by th the people who I oppose restrictive mc measures and any j- j movement to control the liquor trade Nothing more unreasonable could bo be J advanced A sober ober man Is IR a n. hotter better citizen than Is a drunken man A community Is simply the tho assembly of or orI I Individuals It is as silly to sa say a 1 drunken city will wll prosper as to say a n drunken man will prosper What cannot can can- not bo he done dono by one and ono one cannot be 10 done dene b by tho the mass The sober man I is th the tho successful man Hem Hero and anti thero there ono one gets drunk and makes maltes a l good trade But Dut that Is Isby isby b by no means an argument for business businessmen men to get drunk The They know know and and no ono one knows better that better that they ther can cm cando tb do better hetter business when they ther are areS sober when they are In full po posses posses- ses sEen sian of all their faculties They need all the powers they po sess go go to trade e. e Mc Men fen n they ther trade with aro are going to ho sober and watchful with scarcely an nn exception The drunken man is the incapable man maD And tho the drunken city is the incapable city If H It Is bad for one man to lose control control con can of or him himself ef it is bad for a l condition condi contU- tion to exist which encourages all nIl or ninny many to lose control to steep their senses in Intoxicants to get reckless and fling awn away their mone money What would spell ruin for the person person person per per- son cannot spell safety and anel wisdom for tho the city It is just as reasonable to S say a man is better off drunk than sober ober as to say a n. town of riotous indulgence in in- is better off orr than a n town of decorum and anti sanity |