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Show 00 HYPOCRITES. In Philadelphia, police hold a man. charged with being intoxicated when driving an auto that killed a woman. The delenclant makes sweeping de nials alcoholic breath due to medicine, medi-cine, unsteadiness caused by locomotor locomo-tor ataxia, etc. Most readers will snort or chuckle wlin they larn that the defendant is a prohibition lecturer, a coincidence apt unfairly to condemn him without a hearing, in the popular mind You have heard of prohibitionists making speeches against Demon Rum when so drunk they could hardly stand up Hypocrisy? No. A drunkard drunk-ard is an expert on drunkenness. He knows what he is talking about, something that cannot be said of the prohibitionist who never had "the snakes." |