The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-15
Dr. Adams, Views on Prohibition.


improvements, etc.
Dir. Adams Views on Prohibition.
HooD RIVER, Dec. ~, lS09.-Editor
GLACIER: In your last issue | read with
interest an article headed "Plea for Pro-
hibition," and signed w. p. Watson.
Judging from what | hear, nineteen out
of twenty who read your paper enter a
strong demurrer to Bro. Watson's views.
humbly beg to stand up and be
counted" as one of the nineteen. Now,
don't let us forget, before we start in,
that Bro. Watson, like all prohibitions
lists, draws no line between a temperance
man who uses moderate amount OF
pure spirits and the drunkard who wal
lows in his yomit in a saloon, dead
drunk on "rot gut" oblivious to the
wants Of his family. Youthful blood
and the gray hairs OF infirmity are alike
found sticking to the wheels Of this pro-
hibition Juggernaut. Itrespects neither
age, sex, previous or present condition
OF q mans health. All alike must be
ground TO sausage meat to catch a poor
devil who deals out poisons in n saloon.
Prohibitionists want law to stop the
manufacture and sale of all spirituous
liquors. Do | correctly state their case2
What are spirituous liquors? Whisky,
rum, alcohol, wine, lager beer, or any
thing that will make an Indian drunk.
Prohibitionists demand law to pro-
hibit the manufacture, sale or giving
away any such drugs. The law OF course
must havo penalty attached-fine and
Imprisonment. Prohibition sleuth
hounds, anxious for a fee, invade a
mans house, turn his bureau drawers
outside, 60 down cellar, overhaul his po-
tatOes, frighten the women and children
into fainting to hunt q bottle of beer,
and then go their way, to collect their
fee, reporting Nothing found" In
Maine, cider was prohibited" They
cut down their orchards to prevent the
use of cider. The prohibition sleuth
| hounds found pint Of cider with an old
soldier which neighbor had given him.
The soldier was arrested and cast into
prison because he refused to tell who
gave him the cider. After long impris-
onment among cOekroaches and vermin
in the damp cobweb covered walls the
old soldier committed suicide as the only
way of escape from soulless prohibition
fanaticism.
am opposed to prohibition law for
many good reasons. l. No such law
ever was or ever will be enforced. Pub
lie sentiment is against it and always
will be. q 1t would imprison Jesus
Christ for making wine and drinking il
to such an extent that the prohibition
Pharisees called him a "wine bibber.
8. 1t would send Bro. Watson to the
lookup for having made some very good
wine and inviting me down cellar to
sample it. Did Christ, Paul or Watson
in so doing commit q crime that would
defile an angel2 All say no. Then why
have prohibition policeman knock
them down with his club and thrust
them in prison alongside OF the drunk
ard who has cut his wife's throat2 4.
oppose prohibition because alcohol and
spirituous liquors are highly necessary
in the arts and in pharmacopia. Go ask
Ed Williams and Charley Clarke If they
think they couldn't make better tine
lures with stump water than alcohol
Go ask that old grey-headed man whit
has been temperately using bitters To-
so years if he don't think it will be bet
ter for his health to stuff his roots anC
herbs into jug and then fill it up witt
rain water or buttermilk. Go ask an.
intelligent physician who uses alcoho
as an anRsthetic or to arrest waste o
tissue in cOnsumptive if he don't thinl
soap suds will answer the same purpose
When you get an affirmative answer t
these questions then hang out the vel
| L. a.. II OF (nnt for
getting Bro. Watson's CELLAR.
But Bro. Watson starts off by quotinI
"a wise man" (Solomon) to prove tina
they who tarry long at the red wine hav
all sorts of pains and aches but he for
got to tell us that this "wise man. neve
saM a word against the temperate use Q
whenever recommended prohibition
as a cure for carrying long enough +
, get beastly drunk" He also forgot t
tell us that this "wise man" was no
even temperate in all things. Couldn'
l even temperate Turk get along yer
4 we'll with less than thousand wome
, 600 wives and 700 concubines), as thi
r ''wise man" kept in his harem? Ism
: there school boy in Hood River "wise
E enough to tell us it is bad for man t
9 drink enough wine to carry headligh
{ on the end of his nose? And WASH
+ Brigham Young "wise" enough to teI
t me in talk | had with him in 1865
t that 81 wives and no concubines answer
i ed his purpose very well2 Which wa
Y the "wisest," Solomon or Brigham
e Young2
0 But let us hear Bro. Watson: "No /
cense or folding of hands while one hur
e dred thousand of our countrymen al
r filling drunkards' graves annually
Who is responsible for tn
n present ruinous liquor traffic, not tn
e saloon keeper but the people," {Her
a he has left little hole which he elicense
G the saloon keeper to crawl out at.
y think he ought to have plugged tbs
t hole up). He can carry all he wants
Of the sack of saloon keepers sins 0
II his shoulders, but excuse me for NJ
h lending a hand. Again: ut is the go
It ernment that makes the laws, but tt
h people make the government. Vel
we'll what is the government? McKil
% ley as the head, his cabinet and col
If gress. This is the government, isn't il
t. the government that is holding up II
d rum traffic and sending seventy thol
1t sand drunken bloated bodies to the gray
D and seventy thousand souls to hell. A
infamous government truly-one I'll
r devil has got by the ear and all hell
1t rejoicing over Who voted the admit
lie istration into power2 Did any fiamiI
re prohibitionist vote for McKinley--vo
to as he prays and believes, or did he vo
te for the prohibition candidate? In ord
to to know just what. their opiniC
a. is worth the public wants
Id know whether you are really
Id earnest.-whether the old muzzle-loa
We ing horn gunflint prohibition blu
IN derbuss you are swapping at the ego
le ernment' is loaded or not-loaded wi
H. shot and shell or mere gas--whether,
III in Shakesnea res Pvramns and Thish