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Show The Impending Fate Of Booze. Tho success of tho prohibition propaganda In this oloctlon In tho form of n nonpolltlcal nnd essentially essenti-ally sumptuary Issuo Indicates that tho question of regulating individual in-dividual habit is moro ullvo now than over. Earlier successes might havo been regarded as flashes of revolt against liquor, but it boco'.ien apparent that a steady and stiong Impulao Is at work. This Is not a flash. It is a progress. It rovoals a tondoncy that grows strongor with ouch year. Each year gives It Its Incromont and the next tncroaeos It. Therefore national rohtblttoa Is t nearer a reality now than carelessly thinking men would havo dreamed possible oven two years ago. It Is within rational conception that Inside In-side of a fow years tho United States congress will act In accordance with tho wishes of advocates of national prohibition and that tho country will accept an amendment to tho constitution consti-tution and will drink on tho sly thereafter. Sumptuary legislation always provokes pro-vokes Indignation from the fow who bollovo that character Is sustained by tho Individual will and Is not a matter of statute Tho modern tendency tend-ency Is to surround tho individual with a statutory wall of prohibition. This wall Is designed to promoto tho Individual's welfare and his comforts to protect bis habits, to protect him from tho timo ho arises In tho morning morn-ing until ho goes to bed at night. If tho Individual has a wayward Impulse, law Is to step up to his elbow, el-bow, whisper a sano counsel Into bl.i ear, and, It he listen not to this counsel, take him moro firmly by the elbow and lead him away Into tho path ot rcctltudo from which hs has strayed. Liquor can be n terrible thing. Any one of ordinary experlenca and perception has scon what damngo it hns dono in llvos which might lmvo been moro pleasantly nnd profitably lived It no such thing as nlcohol ever had bcon dlstillod by the human raco. Tho samo exporlencod and por-ceptlvo por-ceptlvo persons havo seen alcohol and character mixed to an entirely satisfactory result. Alcohol Is como-thlng como-thlng which, whon It finds Its way into nn nppotent body ungovcrned by character and resolution, means tragedy. It Is something which, whon It finds Its way into a body governed by a considerate and syne Intellect, morely heightens the colors col-ors of life and makes existence a moro Bereno, acceptable experience. Alcohol has its chambers of horrors; hor-rors; it shows tho lives It has ruined tho hopes it has destroyed. It also has Its firesides, its comfortable illusions, il-lusions, its sustaining qualities. To regard it philosophically In to of'or rat poison to persons convinced that it Is tho Invention of tho. devil Intended In-tended for tho damnation of mankind. man-kind. Hut however far ahead wo got omotlonnlly by being downright on tho subject wo mnko very llttlo real advance in Intelligent thought when we consider a consistent practice prac-tice of tho human race ns nn abnormal abnor-mal nnd hideous practice Just at present there Is a manifest determination In tho United States to regard stimulation by alcohol as a dcndly practice That determination determina-tion undoubtedly has beon caused by tho abuse of alcohol. The American Ameri-can saloon Is tho most useful supporter sup-porter of tho prohibitionists, t robs tho demon rum of every saving grace It has. It Is built as n complete concession to Intemperance, It Is constructed to make heavy drinking nttractlvo, If not neceBBnry, and to mnko tho rational uso of alcoholic drinks Impossible, Whon alcohol presents Itself with the quick lunch aspect It has out- iffll Iawed Itself Tho American saloon HI has outlawed alcohol in this country. 'Ill It has mado tern poranco tho ration- ''ill al employment of mild stimulant to 'PI which tho body might accommodate J! Itself nnd with which gonlality might iRH sntlsfy itself nn Impossible thing.. l Tho American saloon Is a device JlH of drunkenness. And it- Is tho- foH American saloon which l'i' bringing OH tho prohibition impulse to tho scopo- ftfl of a national movement. Chicago' l Tribune. Bfl |