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Show u ANOTHER LIQUOR FALLACY. The old tradition that coal miners could not exist without with-out alcoholic beverages has been exploded in a number of states. It was assumed when West Virginia went "dry" the industry there would go to sticks. Some miners did leave the state that for them had 'become a desert. Mine operators complained of a shortage of help. The hard-dying hard-dying liquor interests and their followers attributed all the industrial ills to the closing of the saloons. But you don't hear anything of that sort now. West Virginia is normal, so far as is possible in war time. Coal is being dug without the assistance of John Barleycorn. Kansas will have the same expei'ience. And other mining states scheduled to go "dry" in the near future will add their testimony against the necessity of liquor as an adjunct of mining. Adjustment to prohibition will be not at all hard anywhere in the land, if the people only make up their minds there is no use resisting the laws. Pittsburg Gazette-Times. |
