The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-03-12

receive it in time to give it the advance publicatiO
with. Accompanying the copies of this address, a
of the country, was the statement that during tn
dress would begin to go out with a view to reachi
pleasure in laying it before large number of vot
comments upon its subject matter which may ena
concerning its merits and will certainly its
their falsehoods so transparent-Editor'S Motel
To the PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES:
In urging the passage of snmbtuary laz0s the
professional Prohibitionist and those zVho haze
fallen under the spell of his fervid oratory Pic
ture the evils of inebriety and POINT to the H.
censed saloon as dire menace to society.
Comcedimg the indisbntable fact that the la7v-
less saloon is fruitful source of human 7vretclt-
edmeSs, let as ponder over the proposed cure
Prohibition.
assume that in a given community the saloon
has Just been abolished What degree of fulfill
memt of the glorious prophecies of the Pro]ibi-
ZIONIST has the community right to expect, Jmdg-
ing from the experience of other communities TN
recent and more femote times? 1t may be taken
for granted that President Eliot of Harvard Uni
0ersity 7Vould not express himself on such an
important question unless he had studied the mat
ter thoroughly. President Eliot says:
There has been concurrent e7I Of brohtbl-
tory legislation. The efforts to enforce 1T dur
ing forty years haze had some uulooked-for
effects public respect for courts, judicial
proceedings, oaths and la7Vs in general, and for
officers of the la7v, legislators and public ser
0antS. The public has seen la7v defed, a 70hole
generation of habituaI la1v-breakerS Schooled in
e0aSon and ShameleSSneSS, courts mefecti0e
through fluctuations of policy, delays, berjurieS,
neghgencies and other miSca,rageS of justice,
officers of the lac donble-faced and meycenary,
legislators h'nid and insivcere, candidates for
office hybocritical and vuckhng and office
holders unfaithfm to pledges and reasonable
public expectation Through an agitation qvl.ich
has al1UayS had moral end these iDn0ralitieS
haze been deUelobed and made conspicuous"
Abram Lincoln expressed his vie7vs on the sub
jeet foHo7os:
'Prohibition 7oW 7voyk great injury to the
cause of temperance. 1t is species of intem-
berance avithn itself, for 1t goes beyond the
bounds of reason IN that it attempts to control
a mans appetite by legislation, and in making
crimes ont of things that are not crimes.
II Prohibition lac strikes a blo7v at the 0ery
principles ON aVlich our government 7vaS
fonnded.'
General U. S. Grant 7Oas opposed to Prohibi-
tion and gaze the follo7Ving example to illustrate
his 5ie70 of the matter:
Il kno7v from my o1Vn experience that 70hen
/ 7gaS at West Point the fact that tobacco IN
eVery form 70dS prohibited, and the mere pos
session of the 7veed severely punished made a
majority of the cadets, myself included, try to
acquire the habit Of nsing it,"
General Grant died of cancer, caused BY en-
ceSSi0e smoking; the result of habit cnltivated
because of broMbitory rule.
John Quincy AdamS said:
Self government is the foundation of all our
political and social institutions and it is by self
government alone that the la7v of temperance