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Show RIMES HOT SHOTS AT U. S. PROHIBITION. PRO-HIBITION. EDITOR. Apropos of the prohibition farce, here are some original lines of mine on the question: IF (With Apologies to Kipling) If you can still say dry, when all about you Are drinking theirs and saying, ."Here's :o you." -jf If you ofn smell your neighbor making mak-ing home brew And yet don't feel impelled to make some too; If you can flee a bunch of half stewed policemen Down sewers pour the good fermented ferment-ed Jvice Of grapes Just like out Lord made, And only save some for their private use; If you can hear a judge say, "Fifty dollars, Or go -to jail," to some unlucky wight. Because he had a bottle in his pocket, And knows His Honor was "lit up" last night.1 And knows that mostly all the court attaches, Including dog catcher, and the bailiff too, Had had a shot of moon befcle court opened, And in their cellars tt:e:e reposed home brew; If you're aware tht yiung folka now are drinking A great deal mote and ge'ting very flip; That girb of tender rge now go aspooning With guys who have a pint flask on their hip; If you can stand snd yatch these things they're doing. And stay uitfnoved before the ghastly sight, And then go to the polls and cast your ballot "Dry," and still say prohibition is all right; j If you can heair "one.half-of-one-pef. . centers" ' Cackle because they made our coun. try "dry". If you know all these things, yet keep your virtue, Then, brother you're a better man than I. JACK PLANE. I |