Evening journal., 1907-11-04
LICENSE COMMITTEES LICENSE COMMITTEE.
An Answer TO Nh. Howard
By George Muller Gives
PrOhibite Stern Rebukc
Meets the Prohibition Leader in His Argument on Each
Count and Shows the FaTIacy Of His Position
Says Intemperance is Like GIuttOny and
Not Within tIie Control Of
Any Dealer

on the other hand in European coun-
tries the sale OF intoxicants is often
carried on in the most exposed places
1t is not a matter of morals of courage,
or cowardice, It is simply a matter
of taste, preference or custom Any
one but an ignoramus knows that.
The writer has travelled much and
is acquainted with his subject he never
knew OF a sentinel or guard to be at
tached TO a licensed saloon. In the
Universities Of Sneakdom, as Maine
and Kansas, this may be true, but that
lis part Of the prohibition system.
The covert ways used to transport
lintoxicants Is another result of the
lexigencies created by the amalgamation
of graft politics with graft religion
which has brought forth prohibition.
The saloon does not strike IN the
night; it is the protege Of prohibition,
the speakeasy, that strikes in the night;
the saloon assassinates no character,
it does not attack defenceless woman
hood nor the nursing child.
The evil spawn Of Prohibition is
the great destroyer of women and chill
dren; the patent medicine habit, the
quietine drugs fed to nursing children,
the milk sold with too much water ad-
ded, causes ten fold the deaths among
infants as compared with the direct
or indirect effect Of alcohol.
The liquor traffic is not a thief 1t
furnishes TO the patron the goods he
asks for, and If he goes to excess
they are no more to be condemned than
the merchant whose food products used
to excess cause Indigestion, gout, dys-
lpepsia, and a score Of other ills.
The hyperbole In the language Of
this fellow Howard, that follows under
the second count Of his indictment,
deseends to the lowest plane of villi-
fioation.
The saloon is not an inhdel and its
aggregated blasphemers could scarce
lly touch the first step of the depths
into which this Rochester propaganda
has descended. OF course. the saloon is
not sentient being and can have nc
faith or unfaith, but the mon in the
lliquor business have both faith and
reverence in the majority of instances
but abused and vilifed as they are, il
/ is not strange that their faith in God
does not extend to all who mask be-
hind the sacred calling.
Lewd stories and literature are not
unknown to clerical circles
The saloon is not the soroerer oil
American politics. Il is the masked
wolves Of commerce and finance, many
Of whom contribute to the Howard
lfanaticism, which have destroyed faith
in government, respect for law, anc
slimed the politics of the American
union.
These wolves Of finance have sappec
the foundation Of our institutions oil
learning by gifts from their hoard oil
crime and bloodstained gold.
They have ground the virtue Of wo.
men, the strength of manhood and thC
10y Of childhood into the fabric of their
fortunes, and manaoled the limbs oi
helpless humanity to the machinery oi
a Goddess and inhuman eommercialism
| They have made nnammon their di.
vinity and pay the brbes Of preten.
tous and hypoeritieal philanthropy t.
the time serving clergy and profession.
al "reformors" whose cry Of "stop
thief" is only to divert attention from
the real offender.
As to social impurity, I would rather
my boy should be brought up amid tn,
lunmasked language Of the worst sa
looms than that he should listen to th'
lprurient and curiosity melting scandal
lmongering Of many rural religious com
lmunities and families.
If this banefu oontagion of Prohibi
ltion should carry to other states tn
moral pestilenee it has spread through
out Maine and Kansas, the land woul'
deserve the fate Of Sodom and Gomor
lrah.
! The succeeding wild statements il
this rhapsody Of rot must wait atten
tion at another time.
II is not for Howard or his ilk +
pronounce curses in the name Of tn
Almighty. The usurped prerogative o
Deity can but bring to the arrogan
egotist of Rochester the deeper con
demnation.
As a final word, we suggest that tn
man who sells a commodity the wis
use of which harms no man, and tn
excessive use Of which is in the cate
CORY Of guttony, is much superior AM
more to be hon~red than the man VIII
prostitutes his intellect TO the base pur
pose Of a false propaganda and use
his powers Of speech to disguise tn
venom Of the serpent in the language o
pretentious goodness