The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-02-14
INTOLERANCE INTENSIFIED.


up sympathy for our good friend,
Judge Hainer, who was SO discour-
teously treated by the people who
had advertised meeting for the
discussion of the liquor problem.
Judge Hainer has been in public life
for many years; he served couple
OF terms in congress, and he mas prac-
ticed at the bar. Surely he has been
in public life long enough to have |
made the discovery that most people |
very soon make when they under
take to discuss the saloon question
with the political and sentimental
prohibitionist In the firm opinion OF
this cult-and they are as unchang-
ing and Interchangeable as the laws of
the Modes and Persians-those who
do not believe just exactly as they
believe are saloon supporters, in
league with HE'LL rum advocates
"devourers of our boys" 'sots.' and
few other things too numerous to
mention. Your political and senti-
mental prohibitionist never gives
those who differ from him credit for
| being either intelligent or conscien-
tious He is going to correct human
nature by legislative enactment and
supplement the teachings of the
Nazarene with a writ of subpoena and
constables club. Judge Hainer GER
tainly must be aware of these very
patent facts, therefore we can SYM
pathize but little with him in the
present trouble which his too-confijing
nature brought upon him. He might
have known that a meeting for the
discussion of that particular question
and made up of that class of people,
merely meant a meeting that would
listen only to one course of dis
cussion
Your political and sentimental pro-
nibitionist is always intolerant. Did
he dare, he would use the rack and
the thumbscrew on all who oppose
his pet theories, and the horrors of
the Spanish inquisition would be
children's tea party compared with
what he would do to those who differ
from him were he not restrained by
physical fear and moral fear of the
llaw
The WagewOrker wants it under
stood here and now that it holds no
brief for the defense of the saloon
The American saloon has absolutely
no defense. 1t is an unmixed evil,
and sooner or later the saloon as
public institution must go. But The
Wageworker does contend that COM
nonsense should rule in the handling
of this tremendous problem, and not
sickly sentimentality or moral dys-
pepsia miscalled religious zeal
There are whole lot of people who
claim to be advocates of temperance.
and who are honestly and earnestly
not believe that prohibition is the
proper solution at this time They
know from experience and observa-
ton that the saloon is an effect, not
CAUSE, anu tudI II eAlSCS III feSpOlSc
to a demand that cannot be .obliter.
ated by legislative enactment.
1t is all easy enough to talk about
voting the open saloon out, but vot
ing out the open saloon and suppress
ing the bootleggers, the holes-in-the
wall, the whisky drug stores and the
so-called clubs is quite another mat
ter. 1t is quite easy-and often very
rrofitable-to stand forth upon pub
lie rostrum and hurl invectives al
I the traffic and at those who canno
| coincide with the prohibitionist''
1 views, but it is quite difficult to per
I srade that speaker that having votet
the saloon out it is his personal bust
| ness to watch for violations, to ente
complaint to personally prosecute
ana otherwise engage in a very dis
agreeable dlty. The man who vote
for prohibition may think that he ha
i done his whole duty, and he ma,