Arizona republican., 1908-04-09

social evil. Nevertheless, firmly as we insist on these facts and principles they do not amount to a final or suf- ficient argument for prohibition. , Experience has shown that laws do not execute themselves. In the battle with intemperance il is not worth while to establish paper blockades. Nor have we any right to leave results wholly with God when results are very clearly in our own hands. If a temper ance man believes that prohibition means free rum We should say that is a good reason why he should vote against it.
 Atlanta Daily Capital.
 As a prohibition paper that has fought for that side because We be- lieved the people of Atlanta had the nerve to carry it out. and if properly carried out would prove d blessing. we now feel il cur duty. after a few months trial. to pronounce it. 10 all appearances, a dead failure in At lanta.'
 Atlanta Journal Dem.)
 'ProhibitiOnists contradict the teach ings of their own faith in their sugges- tion that the negroes of the south. having been forced by their old mas ters 10 lead sober life while in slav- cry took 10 hard drink as soon as they were elnancipated. This implies that former enforced habits of>sobriety had no restraining effect when they were at liberty to procure liquor It is an argument against enforced prohibition as a means of promoting temperance instead of an argument in favor of it."
 Minneapolis Tribune Rep.)
 Moral reforms are not brought into the world full grown. but are the grad ual evolution of years. as the inteli- gence and conscience of the race be- come educated. The cause of temper ance has made tremendous strides during the last twenty years. but its gains have not been made through the forcible action of the mandatory laws. advocated by those who call them selves prohibitionists"
 Chicago Mail Rep.)
 There is no race on earth that has a greater respect for temperance. or greater reverence for the practical ap- plication of temperance principles, than the Germans. What they do object to, and in that they are not alone. is the fanatical interference of any sect or school with the personal liberty of in dividuals to regulate their own lives.
 Harper's Weekly.
 The concrete result, then. of the Maine excise law seems to be that it has made more dangerous a trade that in itself was sufficiently a menace to the public welfare By trying 10 sub vert all principles of reason. and in approaching d great question fanati- cally and not sanely, the Maine legis- lators have directly propagated class of sneaks who, if the laws are reason able. are no better than the thieves who break into our houses by night They have made of every temperate man who is not a teetotaler a criminal, and 10 that extent have vitiated the character of the citizenship it was their duty to protect. Years of effort to establish the reasonableness of their over er-righteousness have failed"
 Washington, D. C., Post.
 They set themselves up as regu- latOrs of the personal tastes of the cit izen. and declare that if they can pre- vent it no person shall ever have the opportunity. at home or abroad. in pri- vate or in public. alone or in company, at his own house or in any public place. anywhere or at any time. to take q drink of whiskey or wine or beer or even hard cider These people should be the last to complain of the principle and practice of the boycott. Prohibition is a sort of boycott The boycott is a species of prohibition. We are against both"
 Birmingham, Ala, Herald (Dem.)
 The democratic party should sit squarely down on prohibition and make no concession to it whatever. All good citizens. irrespective of party, are in favor of temperance and such leSisla- tion as will legitimately regulate the liquor traffic. but an organization like the democratic party. whose existence is cOevaI with the foundation of free government in this country, and whose history has been one of consistent un- alterable opposition to sumptuary leg islatiOn. should and will be slow 10 submit to the dictation Of a handful of sincere. but misguided people who attempt to control the government on a one-idea policy"