New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-08-19

favored McClure's Magazine with a
thoughtful and impassionate article
on the question of prohibition. The
Louisville CONFECTIONERY, in en-
dorsing Prof. Munsterberg position,
comments editorially as follows:
For many years the Courier-Jour-
nal has urged calm and reasonable
consideration of this really great
public question. Partly moral and
partly economic, it is of transcendent
Importance. 1t ever faces us in some
form or other; but has yet taken no
definite shape; indeed, it is variously
misconceived and misstated, making it
possible for self-seeking politicians to
impose upon the credulity of unthink-
ing voters, and for bigots and phari-
sees to disport themselves before very
responsive but irresponsible gather
ings of women and children.
''Great ethical questions, great eco
nomic questions, are not to be treated
with either eloquence or levity; they
are not to be spliced with cheap wit
and course explosives; they are not to
be interlarded with obscenity and pro-
family disguised under the habiliments
of religion. Nothing is easier than
the raiseing of an uproar in mixed
company of people collected together
for the qualification OF their emotions
or their curiosity. Nothing is easier.
than the assembling Of the unreaecting
in attitudes which are mistaken for
prayer. Hysteria is a poor substitute
for morality and emotionalism too Of
ten leads to sin.
Sin good sooth what shall we do
with the liquor traffic? Shall we put it
under some intelligent system Of regu-
lation, carefully worked out oy states
men, having due regard for the public
welfare, both moral and economic, or
shall we enact law, such as that
which is already working such moral
and business havoc in Georgia, to
prohibit it in all it's forms, from the
distillery and the brewery, to the hotel,
the clubhouse, the saloon and the
home?
''Prohibition, as it is called, takes
no middle ground; it is purely senti-
mental and ethical; it may not consi-
der property right, or personal liberty.
Or the public revenues. According to
its narrow, dogma, if public places
must be purged, private places must
be purged. Drink must be as i'm.
possible in Kentucky as in Turkey,
in Louisville as in ConstantinOple.
That which took ages to make abstain
ers of the Mahometans must be
worked upon the Christians by sim
gle act of state assembly, or of con-
gress. Quite hundred millions of
investment and many hundred mil
lions of values, with many millions
more of annual taxes, must be extin-
guished, blotted out of existence, here
in the single state Of Kentucky by
scratch of official pen; the sot, who
goes to bed drunk, must rise next morn
ing sober and regenerate; the maker
and seller of drink, if he goes to bed
rich, must rise pauper; in short,
the habit of a century must be changed
as it were in the twinkling of an eye.
c1y $h1 Sr1> Ia Of
Kentucky-we ask the wise, the good
clergymen of Observation-Disclosures this
is possible to be done; whether it ever
has been done outside the land of Ma
homet; whether the attempt to do it in
any state particularly in the state
of M aine, where the longest trial has
been had-has not resulted in failure,
expressed by evasions of the statute,
by violations of the law, by the sub
stiJution of smuggling for license, and
the promotion Of contraband for adul-
terated drink, for the right of each citi-
zen to eat and drink as he pleases, the
arbiter at once of his conscience and
his conduct?
"The Courier-J Journal wishes to de-
clare with all it's earnestness and all
its power it's belief that every scheme
and each attempt to force the moral
nature of men by legislation - espe-
cially by dollhouse process of legistat-
ion impelled by the hysteria of what