| Show PITY THE POLITICIAN I IThe The wets and the drys will never agree on whether prohibition prohibition tion has been a good thing or a bad thing for the people and they will continue to argue the thing indefinitely But there can be no doubt whatever that the prohibition question is is hard hardon on one class of men the men the politicians A candidate for office does not like to limit his appeal to wets vets only or to drys only only- He wants votes from both camps So he is faced with the hard problem lem m of trying to walk on both sides of the fence Of course if his supporters are all on one side or the theother other her that makes it easy for him He will be for what they are Jar for or But standing one way publicly and another way privately has its inconveniences There was vas for instance the con confidential 1 document seized b by Y the Senate lobby committee containing n names mes of members of congress who drank in private but voted dr dl dry y in public Doubtless a number of those fellows were trembling in their boots until the committee decided there was vas no use publishing the names Verily Venly the life of a politician is an unhappy one |
