Show DOES prohibition PROHIBIT WE NOT ml the e following is on only ay one of many tricks being worked to ovoid the prohibition law birmingham mo ah feb IT 17 the police of birmingham r are looking for the men who are selling liquor from walking canes I 1 it having been discover ed that recently there arrived i in tile the city a man who was r selling the prohibition ca canes aes ues for 50 cents cei alts each the canes have bave a glass tube winch which will hold a drink drink or two the city council of birmingham will vill probably consider consider it a resolution looking sa to tile the ro removal inoval of all fcc reens to the soft drink establishments it is said that liquor and in beer beel can be got fit at some of the places tile the prohibition h has a spread over so largo 6 a part of tile the south that it is be beginning 0 1119 to have an effect beyond tile the MRS limits of that section some persons have bave concluded from frold this development that tle the liquor traffic in the united states slates i is doomed and that the day will soon come where no wines beer boer or distilled liquor will he be legally sold in iii any part of this country it is improbable that conclusions of this kind will bo be justified by the events while it is true that tha there appears to be a grow growing inc sentiment arain against st indulgence dul gence in the use of intoci cants there is no reason to believe that anything like a ma bority of the people of the uni ulli ted states have resolved to adopt total as their rule of liap while we con consider sidor the HIP liquor traffic an evil and it a bloth u upon poi i any ally community that eliat sustains it we are not converted to a absolute e prohibition first because repeated ox x pori peri ments ii have ave proved that prohibition does not prohibit second we ve do not believe in ill compulsory salvation sai third th the 0 lord lias has allowed good and evil to be placed before man inan giving him the opportunity pl port unity of exercising his free agency affe llly and prove himself to be a man inan it a woal weakling cling or a fool the rne only SU sure 10 fill and absolutely absolute ly effective ejective way of remo remedying dying the ft i i i r i i jw c r u 1 J saloon evil is ia to let it eu entirely alone buts but its as long iong as there e re aie a sufficient number of individuals in a community that will willi sustain one oi 01 more saloons tile the evil will continue to be a re against such community we ve believe that in cases case e persons tire are so weak that they can call not or will not ciali manage 0 ga then themselves melves legal provisions should be made for thi ir management the they should he be idy judged td insane and taken to places provided for such unfortunates probably ahe very thought of such it a prospect would b ing recovery to many who a are re now neither nor sound |