PROHIBITION
Some friww « un.s mi.il ,i .m
copy of the speech of Hon. Richmond
Pierson Hobson representative in
cvugrcss iroin Alabama, the subject
of which is prohibition, it is entitled
The Oreut Destroyer," and is printed
at government expense and distribut
ed by the Anti-Saloon League, whose
highest-paid representative in con
gress Mr. Hobson is said to be. We
admit that we haven’t read it yet, but
we will. We fancy It was sent us as
a Joke by one of the boys who knows
that we believe and advocate temper
ance in all things, and if the intention
was to "get a rise" out of us, it has
succeded.
There is a saying to the effect thut
"Consistency is full-jeweled" or words
to thut effect. However that may be,
we know that everybody expects and
demands of everybody else consis
tency. We know that the people de
mand it of us, and while we endeavor
to give it, and fail at times, we also
demand it of others. "If you can’t
pay you can’t take,” is the rule of the
game as we understand it, and as we
know that among other things Mr.
Hobson is inconsistent upon prohibi
tion we are not prepared to give cred
it tor his public talk when his public
actions do not bear out that talk. For
instance, water may be a great de
stroyer, as well as whisky or the mild
er beverages. In fact, when Mr. Hob
son sank the collier Merrimuc in San
tiago harbor early in July of 1898, his
men and himself took to the water and
for a time it looked as though the
water would be their "great destroy
er." Just then the boats from the
Spanish warship, lleina Mercedes
picked them up and here is the testi
mony of oini of the men, one John 1*.
Phillips:
"And, later on, when we were taken
aboard the iteina Mercedes, dressed
it,... .a u.t underwear, cut oft at the
knees, Hobson, as calm as ever, walk
ed up to the commander ol the Span
ish vessel, salutedf him and said: “1
demand whisky for my men who have
been long exposed in the water!”
fcSo much for Mr. Hobson and his
record.
We do not hesitate to say that we
are unequivocally for temperance—
temperance in all things. Our children
are being taught it from the cradle,
and, after all, that is where the lesson
should begin. Over-eating kills more
people than does over-drinking -
therefore, temperance in eating should
be taught, because we learn to eat, and
eat for many years before we start in
lu acquire the drink habit. If chil
dren are temperate in their eating and
are taught to eat right and live right,
there is little danger of them ever
becoming a slave to liiquor. Excesses
of all kinds are a menace and should
be oposed in the press and in the
pulpit—for instance, they tell us from
the pulpit and from the rostrum that
drink is the greatest cause of insani
ty—that as a cause of insanity drink
lends all causes. The facts in the case,
however, are thut, according to the
United States statistics insanity is
caused in regular order (I) sexual
abuse; (2) religious fanatiidsm; (3)
drink. The logical cure for insanity
(striking directly at its source) would
be (1) unsex children immediately af
ter birth; (2) deprive them of religion
lest they become insane; (3) drink
well, theres’ no use in following this
line of thought, for without sex or
religion what would it matter whether
all the world’s men drank or not?
They would certainly have a reason
for drinking—be entitled to some so
lace.
We are not for prohibition, for a
thousand good reasons. First of all,
it doesn’t prohibit. It never did pro
hibit, and It never will. You can no
more legislate morals and temperance
into a people than you can legislate
into them success. Neither condition
is beyond any man. Some of us just
will not be successful, and some of us
are less moral than we probably should
be. But, what code of laws is going
to put us right and keep us that way?
None that man can make. Some 37
per cent of 'the people of the “dry”
states is urban, and about the same
percentage is alleged to take a glass
of beer or whisky occasionally or of
tener. Some 63 per cent of the popu
lation of those states is interurban —
the 63 per cent, not exposed to the
opportunity to get beer or whisky
freely, has taken it upon itself to deny
the 37 per cent the right to obtain
light or strong drink if they wish to.
They have done this without the con
sent of the 37 per cent, and as the
37 per cent had no hand in making the
laWB the 37 per cent refuses to bo
bound by such laws. The result is
ardent spirits in place of milder bev
erages, poorer liquor, illicit stills and
drunkenness accented in those who
would not be drunkards but that their
neighbor denies them the right to eat
or drink as they feel they have the
right. Wo do not believe that we have
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the tight to legislate away our neigh
bor's personal rights and privileges,
and ,we therefore do not believe that
any other man has that right. Might
does not make right, and. never did.
Prohibition does not prohibit and
never will. Temperance is right, all
the time. You can drive a horse to
water, but you can’t make hint drink—
you can deprive a man of the oppor- j
tuuity to buy drinks easily, but you
canot keep him from taking a drink
when he wants one if he can get it
(and he most always can) in "dry" or
"wet" states, and no laws ever passed
can do that to man.
We are not greatly inclined in Hob
sons’ favor. No—it is not true that
we are envious of him for his kissing
record; we just haven’t faith in the
man, for the reason that while we do
not believe him to be personally sin
cere or logical in his beliefs, we know
that he is more careless with statis
tics than any man should be with the
truth. For instance, in his talks be
fore congress he makes the assertion
that; "Alcohol kills 2,000 Americans a
day.” The year he made that state
ment the United States statistics
showed that 933,612 people died that
year—Hobson’s estimate of the deaths |
due to alcohol would amount to 730,000
of 993,612; the United States statis
tics give as a result of alcohol 3,183
deaths that year —3,183 against Hob
son’s 730,000. Hobson only exceeded
the truth by 726,000, which, however, is
far enough to suit us.—Fairbanks
I)ai I y News - M i ner.—Adv.
(Remarks re. insanity, unsexing,
etc., are from speech in congress by
Bertholdt, of Missouri, on Hobson
amend ment.—Ed.)
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POLITICAL CARDS
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
Andy Anderson
Republican Candidate.
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
V. A. JULIEN
ILECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916.
-OR ROAD COMMISSIONER.
W. J. ROWE
Republican Candidate.
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1916.
FOR SENATOR.
TOM McGANN
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7, K16.
OR SENATOR.
MARTIN MORAN
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 7. 1916.
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