The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-05
TO FIGHT PROHIBITION.

TO FIGHT PROHIBITION.
The National German American Ali
ance held its annual gathering in Gin
cinnati, Ohio, on Saturday, at which it
was declared that prohibition is an I'M
righteous invasion of our manhood and
rights Of human freedom. /"
In responding to the address Of wei
come DR.. C. ]. Huxamer of Philadel-
phia, president Of the league, INDUCED
in higil-Hown oratory in which he an
nounced that 1--WE are bitterly opposed
to the passage of any law that destroys
DIR rights of personal liberty. As free
and sovereign people, we believe that
we have right to regulate our lives as
we see fit. The right to drink OUR wine
and our beer we consider as absolute as
the right to buy any other food The
divine right of each to pursue his own
good in his own way should not be sac
rifieed to the fears and the fanaticisn
Of those who regard, or pretend to re-
gard, drink as a crime.
AS an intelligent man, DR.. Huxamer,
having fnisstated the issue, is a subject
Of pubic criticism He should know,
and probably does know, that there is
no law. nor can there be enacted III the
United States, law which can or would
ever destroy the rights of personal lib
erty, ifoi is there any law which can
take from him and his friends "the
right to drink our wine and Our beer,
but when the wine and the beer is sol !
in defiance Of public decenry, then the
law as a police regulation can be
invoked either to regulate or to pro
Iiibit the sale Of intoxicants in saloons.
III brief, this is the whole issue as EN-
brarsd In prohibition, and from Lis Mt
terances DR.. Hexainer has given vent to
a spirit of fanatieism no less direct and
emphatic than that charged against
the prohibitionists. Having delivered
himself Of his Grafton, DR. Hexaincr
afinetnced that the National German
American Alliance woufd fight pfdft:
bition and propose to take hand in
the politics oil Maryland What is the
issue In Maryland and on which side
will be thrown the influence of this
aliiance7
In Maryland the issue is the disfran-
chisement of the negro from politics
Viii DR.. Hexafner and his alliance side
with the African or with the men of
the Caucasian race in the maintenance
Of tie rule Of intelligence and white
supremacy? # DR.. Hexamer and his
alliance propose to fight prohibition and
at the same time TO engage in the poll
Tics OF Maryland and other States, he
and they will have their hands full.
1t would seem that DIR. Hexamer is,
as others who while being intelligent
and much learned, have not yet acquired
the faculty of distinguishing the differ
ence between liberty and license. Ii
cense Il not liberty, and whenever
license nanifests itself through the
saloons OF the groggefy, the breeders
az crime, and where men are made
drunk and become public nuisance,
there IS reserved by law TO every law
abiding citizen IN any self-respeoting
community the right to prohibit and to
close il need be such establishments Of
high and low degree, as encourage in
temperance, drunkenness and crime in
all It's hideous forms.
AS an Intelligent man, Dr.. Hexamer
should know and does know that he
and his friends and all others SO in
ciined can drink their full Of their
wine and their beer, without restraint,
and when he pleads for license instead
Of liberty, he places himself in a dis
rreditable attitude. Indeed. regardless Of
the action or inaction Of the National
Gefman-Amefiean Alliance, the prohi-
bitionists throughout the country are
going right ahead, gathering in the
strength Of numbers and the power of
influence for good whether they are de-
nouneed or fidiCuled BY the traffickers
In intoxicants and their allies. Of whom
Or. IIexamer is seemingly one of the