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Show WAR SCARF WHISKEY ARGUMENT ANSWERED One point which if true is valid, has been urged against the adoption of national prohibition at this time: "A united public opinion," said Senator Lodge, "is the greatest factor in winning win-ning the war. Abolish all the breweries brewer-ies and you will engender dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion and resentment." If that were trup, the country might lose more than it would gain by prohibition. But is it true? Russia was far more wedded wed-ded to her vodka than is America to its beer, yet war prohibition in Russia was psychologically profitable as well as physically strengthening. When American communities are in disorder with popular discontent threatening violence, what do they do? They close the saloons. Evidently that is found to do just the opposite of increasing in-creasing popular discontent. But the best denial of Senator Lodge's point is found in the state of Nebraska. Nebras-ka. Nebraska saloons closed their doors a month after the war was declared. de-clared. Let the Senator come to Nebraska Ne-braska and see whether the loss of our liquor and Nebraska was full of people who had their habits to change causes a nation weakening discon tent. Nebraska State Journal. |