Bisbee daily review., 1910-01-21

1t seeks to dominate not only the leg legislative. but the executive and ju- dicial branches of the government It is therefore a purely political and not moral movement as it's advo- cates necessarily. for political pur- poses, declare.
 Two of the fundamental principles of the Democratic party are (1) al consistent respect for the sacred pri- yate rights oT the citizen, and @ op- position to sumptuary legislation. These. too. are essentially the basic doctrine of the Republican party
 The fundamental doctrines of the Prohibition party are that the citizen has no personal right that the law cannot abrogate and that the govern meat has the right to control. regu- late and direct the private expendi- lures of the sitizen
 There is. therefore. direct, rsdi- cal and irreconcilable conflict be- tween the Democratic and Republican doctrines on the one hand aud the Prohibition tenets on the other. Hence, the impossibility of prohibi- tionist being at the same time s Dem ocrat or a Republican.
 What prohibition stands for is what every national Democratic platform ever adopted has declared against and what the Republican party has uni- iormiy refused to recognize.
 That prohibition is essentially po- liticsi question. any standard diction- sry will establish and at the same time disprove the eoHtention of it's advocates that 1t is moral and not a political issue It is an effort to make 8 man good by law instead of making him good by moral suasioa ana me .aws U- Goa
 Frohibitioa seeks to make thing wicked by iaw-malum Drohibitum- that is not wicked in itself It seeks e kick and drive man into doing what it declares as right. regardless cf his own opinion and his rights as Ia free agent. while Temperanee-the moral issue-appeals to his con science and his regard for the High est Law-appeals to the good that is in him and to his reason.
 Prohibition heaps abuse. vilMfica- ton and every other mental torture upon those who dare to entertain opinions in conflict with it's mandates. It is characterized by uncharitable- ness higotry, fanaticism and intoler- ance which would welcome the re- vival of the inquisition as an instru- ment of forcing a free people to its support.
 Prohibition is practically a comics sion by its leaders and its advocates that they have failed to enforce the teachings of the Bible and must re
 sort to the makeshift of legal fore.
 to do what their incompetence ana
 neglect have failed to accomplish.
 Its most powerful weapon and a
 the same time its fatal weakness f
 Intolerance. Even now the recession
 has begun, and the history of all sim
 liar crazes justifies the prediction
 that the reaction will leave the caus of morality in the saddest of plights
 But why prohibition for Fl Paso
 It cannot shut out liquor. IL has no
 been able to do this anywhere. Hov
 can it be expected to do it along tn border. It could only result in inca culable and irreparable damage to E Paso and every interest representet
 in the city or dependent upon 1t. Then why this agitation? Why ar are people to be set at each other
 throats, to be driven into feuds an l factions by imported. leather-lungep 3 violators of deceney and good order to heap filthy abuse upon our people
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