The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-01

RnOLnef VIEW
The prohibition war Is waxing hot
in Pensacola How about the view OF
Gen. Grant that canteen should fol-
low the army in every campaign and
that beer conduces to the efficiency
| Of officers and privates? If this view
of a soldier be correct the forces of
prohibition must labor under great
disadvantage .-Jacksonyille Times
Union.
A Constitutional Amendment
The ApaIachicola Times remarks
that with but seven wet counties re-
manning in Florida, the suggestion
made that constitutional amendment
be submitted to the people prohibiting
the manufacture Or sale OF liquors in
the State, would hardly be worth the
candle. And the prohibition senti-
ment is growing every year, until
finally the traffic will be eliminated
not only in Florida but in every State
in the South, either by local option
or by constitutional provisiOn.-Gaines-
vile Sun.
Statutory Prohibition
All prohibition is statutory. whether
it be village, town and city local
option prohibition, or state prohibition.
To rail against statutory prohibition
is to rail against all prohibition. To
praise prohibition by any unit is to
praise it by every unit If it be. good
for city government to withhold its
consent from the sale of liquors, it is
good for a county and a state to re-
fuse to sanction the traffic and stamp
it with public approval The funda-
mental proposition in all the political
&C HI
whether men will sell and men will |
drink, but whether government shall |
approve of the selling and the drink F..
ing-whether it shall give to the peo- |
pie as a whole or by communities |
the right to approve and legaIIze for !
a price a traffic which wrecks and !
robs homes, ruins lives and burdens !
and cOrrups the State-The Maine |
Citizen, Portland.
Should Have Known
OF the three leading daily papers, |
the Times Union, Pensacola Journal |
and Tampa Tribune, one-tne Pensa-l
cola JOurnal-has openly declared it
self in favor of prohibition. We won
der how the Times-UniOn and TAMPA
Tribune stand on this question Fort
Myers Tropical Breeze.
We regret to see that our brother of
the Tropical Breeze has not perused
the columns OF the Tribune with the
diligence we had hoped. He
should be ali means do so in the fin
ture and so gather valuable informa-
ton on sundry topics of deep interest
to FloridianS which he will fail to find
elsewhere
The Tribune has frequently stated
Its opinion regarding state prohibition
an opinion which. it believes. we'll |
accords with true democratic princi-
pie and which, if adhered to. will be
best for Florida's interests. This opin-
ion IS that the present local option Law
Is all that is necessary in the way of
liquor legislation. Under it each /
county may decide for itself whether
Dr. not it will permit the liquor traffic
and, as is well known more than nine
-enths of the counties of the state |,
have taken advantage of the law and |,
abolished the traffic
And this is as il should be. It is the 4
enforcement Of the principle of home
'ule- No wet county and no COM
oination of wet cs,unties has the
power TO interfere with any county,
wen the smallest-thar mas elected tn
become dry" And what Is sauce for
he goose should be sauce for the gan
Ter The attempt to submit to the
people OF the state a constitutional
amendment In favor of state prohi =
ion would be nothing more nor loss
nan an effort TO invite the dry" conn