Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-02
His Attack Answered by One of Its
Advocates

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The right to rink necessarily involves the right to purehase such purchase
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The right to drink temporarily is 1na~anaoe and cannot be forfeited
The right to life no more sacred than the right to sustain life by eating and
drinking according to ones taste SO long as that be temperate wUhout such right
here couldb be no pursuit of happiness To threaten the life of another is punished
b. Imprisonment whether caued through drunkenness or otherwise Drunkenness
is thu cause Of an exceedingly small per cent of such crime
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honestly enforced
nooer.,. anns.. as well as all association. organized to oppose prohibition and
even the liquor interests themselves are unanimous in endorsing every Effort to re-
dcei ntemperance to a minimum. and do not Join those h ignore its evils If there
be. my SUCH. but they refuse to Join with those III undert the guhe OF 'ant-saloon
ton law, which If enacted, would destroy tn protection which society now enjoys
undero our present W
CONCLUSION
on the unsound foundation that the seller must take. all the blame because soe
exceed one in five hundred, abuse their purchases, and that for the SAINT reason the
aus be deprived of the opportunity to BUY. Among a civilized, Intelligent and
the individual III buys AS with ali forbidden fruit the appeut becomes more
ricuty of gratifying it increases IN the oher hnd familiarity breedsc contempt"
mixing among the employees of liquor dealers, rewer and distIers than in many
to deny that the temptation is within U.S. or to shift it onto the place Of sale
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