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low them wherever they may lead, do
hot Judge too hastily. we are crea-
lures " our Environment. we find our
environment as true as was the para
BILE OF the sowef said by Jesus, II it
fall upon the rocks. it will wither and
die, the same is true Ut us.
The liquor question IL an economic
one q great dsal more than a moral
one. I scott at our morals, that makes
a brute out o fman ifhe IS to become
successful; causes him to loose all
sense Of shame; and must lower hin1-
self In the sight of God: I am Of the
opinion that the man who is guided
by our morals, will never be what ma
ture intended he should be an intelli-
gent being, but will drift backward
speak freely of all, and I include the
preachers, for they dare not attack
the wrongs OF today from a scientific
point for economic reasons, but mere
ly talk palliatives to conceal some
other wrong, they paint horrible pic
lures Of the one thing, and conceal.
the other, or in Biblical phase they
hide their lamp Under a bushel AS
long as liquor is made for profit and
not Tor use, as long as men can make
a profit out Of it's sale, it will be sold,
If they cannot gain a right to sell it
from the city or state, they will even
go so far as to make criminals of
themselves in order to get the profit.
j To be fair and to ask the question, is
there really more harm in man selling
the stuff for profit, than there is in
the man who will buy good, not for
people to wear but because there is
profit in them, or for the parasite who
gets a public office, and does nothing
for the people for the salary he re-
ceives. One is as great crime as the
other.
Will we destroy the value Of the
private Of the saloon keeper and Of
the brewer, if SO why not destroy all
property that does not deal fairly with
the people? What about the holdings
Of the Builders Exchange, what Of
all the institutions that receive their
rewards through the exploitation Of
labor? Are the saloon keepers as
much Of a Judas as are the employ
ers, who vl1ify and belittle honest la
Dor, the prohibitio1iists may curse
against the rum traffic, but We work
ers protest against the traffic in US
wage workers., they bly, our labor, we
sell, we. buy the booze the saloon
Keeper slls, what is the difference, 4
half dozen of one and six of the other.
Fhere are many HUNDREDS OF thous-
arads 81 men who have learned trades
in the liquor Industry, would YOU rem
der their trades Vaiue1ess to them:
What would our noble government ia
for money with Which to build those
fire battleships; those machines ST
war that the prohfbitiontsts as we'll as
others are So proud 81.
WHY will people get busy doing
sNnething that will really be a bene-
fit, to the little children that are COM
PEELED to work at the time they should
be going to school, and ali the in1us-
tices that are so prevalent to-day, Why
cry about some thing you cannot do.
ever since the time Of Abraham LIQUOR
was drank and there is mo question
but what it will be drank until peo-
pie outgrow it's use. One thing is
certain if you will not give the people
the right to drink it, they will igrlor
your laws, become criminals. ana in
That case we would be compelled to
build more structures ct intelligence.
jails. ALI we can do Is to strike at
the root Of the liquor traffic and we
can kill it, but until we do, it will
live. Rest assured Of that fact. We
are slaves to our environment. we
cannot. raise above them, our MINDS
have been cheated Of their worth, by
teaching us to cheat ourselves, we
have been taught this and that will
aid us, until we are assured of but
one fact, and that is when the end OF
1t all comes we will rest in peace be-
meath the ali welcoming earth.
No we have listened too long to the