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Show THE FORUM TO THE EDITOR: .1 You seem to take a good deal of delight in telling other people how to live and perhaps that is your business, busi-ness, but it seems to me that you exceed your duty when you arrogate yourself the right to Inform all of those who may happen to enjoy on occasional drink of "Scotoh" on occasions, oc-casions, v ' I have been presented a fine bottle of Scotch whisky for Christmas aud it's before me as I sit at my typewriter type-writer and Indite tbla letter to you. It bears tfce label of Sandy McDonald a good, fair, well-bodied liquor which I am assured was bought before the war and has been in my friend's cellar cel-lar ever since. What right lias any form of law to make me a criminal if I partake of this gift as it was intended intend-ed that 1 do by the giver? 1 claim that any such law Is an invasion in-vasion of my personal liberty. I noted that you have re'end often ln 'om' excellent column to the so-called Bill of Rights which secures to all men and women certain inalienable rights (o their perapnaMiberty, which as you say, are not inconsistent with th rights of others. How do you ie concile your statements, I have Just tasted of this bottlo of liquor, twill confde to you, and I cannot see where or how 1 am invading invad-ing the rights of any other person on earth. I find it excellent. ' I cannot feel, Mr. Editor, that I wronged the community or added to the lawlessness lawless-ness of the general society in so doing. do-ing. , It makes me tired to be classed as a criminal for any such occasion, and I notify you that before long there will be a revolt against the sort of stuff that you are writing. Just to show my Independence of such truck as you are writing, 1 have taken another drink of the aforesaid most jubilant Sandy MacDonald, and I will say to you that it is about as smooth a drink as a criminal ever put into his system. The second drink, which I shall soon follow by a third, makes me more certain that those who feel their systems require a stimulant, should band together; organize, or-ganize, and start a campaign to floor this Volstead business if It can be done. - " Now, Mr. Editor, I am no bum and you can't make me a bum. I like a little drink now and then and I have taken . a third and maybe It is a fourth, and I am more ths ever con-vincew con-vincew that any man that doen't is a big idiot. Jou say that this evabion of the law Is producing a sta6e of affairs af-fairs in our Greafcr nand Glorious Country. You are wronh. This cluntry Is Jess as good a, it ever was and was a great deal better country and I will leabe it to you fi it wasnSt, when wa had free rum. I an8t to say to you that this St eitch is all right. A lot of It wlouldnT do us harm. When we ened stimulany we need it. My grandfyer was brougr up on rum. That had it In I the housd all the time. They dranj it freely and even the mlnistew drank it when he came to our house. It8i a pretty kinf of a cointry when a grand, son Ie better than hts gundfaher. I can drink this sort of Scutob all day and nit be n0 woree a cltozn tnan 1 was beforte. I could drink this whole quet audd neger giber an etelash. Bue whay I wneat of yiou is to remind re-mind yiu oner agailan thqt you arw dead wronb ib comfseinglng evert bony whu drinls as o bouhm. We aln&t criulals. I will sat inxcloisng, thqt i wis flu a 2meRft ChrT.-ymax" tt LWWy Ner Yrare." Rexcevtfilu Yloytdx o8Bd 5 Swrv-ViT, Swrv-ViT, Willie B. Puller. |