The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-09-21

GER" and when this appetite assumes
to control the will, it usually takes
manful struggle to overcome it. Be
sides this mental conflict, there is a
physical harm produced by Over-indul-
gence. Why impose upon the stomach
this unusual or unatural function, so
foreign to the purpose for which it was
created? Again there is moral view
of the question. Statistics tell us that
drink and crime are closely related,
and crime is only an abnormal out
burst of immortality or ignorance.
VIC.
The prohibition of liquor by law is
an absurd idea, not only because it has
utterly failed to accomplish its ends
but because it arOuseS an opposition OF
an aggravated kind to the restriction of
the liquor traffic. The habit of stim,l-
lating by liquor is so confirmed in our
population that if the liquor traffic was
suppressed, eXcitation would be OBJ
tanned by means of Smuggled drugs
more perniciOus than liquor, which
through their lesser bulk would more
effectually defy control. If prohibition
should temporarily conquer and be-
come law it would develope some SEN
satiOnal modes of inhibition. | believe
in freedom of will and the proper en-
fOrcement of all those restrictive laws
we already have on our statute books.
Prohibition will not give man willpow-
er to conquer, but will only tend to
weaken mans general respect for law.
p. A. F.
In my own mind have often Won
dered why the prohibition follow
ers did not advocate the abolition of
license upon intoxicating liquors and
use as argument to sustain their posi-
ton, that "mOOn- sinners in the noun
tainS of Tennessee, Arkansas and Vir-
ginia piled their vocation regardless Of
| the law" Laws of all states are violated
as "citiZenS" of this immediate lOcali-
| ty can testify. Prohibition laws GER
tainly fulfil their object as well as any
on our statutes. The code of laws I
think would be beneficial to the United
States is: Any one making intoxicating
liquors shall be hung by the neck until
dead: Any one handling Intoxicating
liquor, to be hung until dead: Any
one intimating a desire to drink intOXi-
eating liquor, to be banished from the
United States for life, and be compelled
to serve as a Chinese missionary for
ten years. DIAMOND BESSIE.
Xxx
The desire for Stimulant at certain
periods, is and has been universal
throughout the world; the knowledge
and means to satisfy this desire has
been and is possessed by every race,
savage, alf-civilized, or civilized. The
manufacture and consumption of liq-
uor as stimulant has kept pace in a
certain ratio, with the advancement
and progress in civilization; whereas
formerly this consumption or indul-
gence occurred only at certain inter
vals to-day it has grown into a habit
and therein lies the great evil. That
liquor has it's beneficial uses is a we'll
established fact: but, as in all other
things, it should not be carried to ex-
tremes. The only feasible solution
thus far adopted to counteract this
growing evil has been the temperance
movement; for prohibition will never
accomplish it because its adherents
deny anybody but themselves any voice
or rights in the matter. OBSERVER.
x*x
From time immemorable the seething
burning, blighting lava-tide of rum and
its handmade, corruption, has been
belched forth from the crater of degra-
datiOn to Overwhelm and destroy So
ciety. 1t has been, IS, and will be the
curse of the Individual, OF society and
the world. It ruins the body and soul
and stultifes the mind; it debases those
who use it and degrades those who as
sOciate with the users; it destroys the
individual, his hopes, his aims. his am
bition. Itdestroys his wealth, his repu