The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-07-25
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Experience has shown the folly
rIof prohibition wherever it has been
tried, and that saloons can be reg
|ulated by law, There is not city
lin Maine where a stranger cannot
go and buy all the beer or whisky
he wants. There is no attempt what
lever to disguise the fact that these
places are operating in violation of
1.-The law
Francis Murphy, International Tenn
perance Worker, Organized
First Temperance Reform
Club OF Maine. 49,.
eve are apt to become pictorial
when we save people. 1t is not
right. 1t is we'll to be humble. I
know of nothing that can save you
but mercy. Just remember that,
and remember that I am not find
ing fault with any other method Of
Saving men, but officers cannot
reach mems appetite. The Legisla-
ture cannot control mans appe-
tite. While it is we'll to undertake
to do certain things by act of Legis-
'lature, there are things that Legis-
latures cannot do, and it is no use
to try. Now, remember that Christ
never went after man with the
city marshal, but with the grace of
God.
"The prohibition policy amounts
to Caesarism. They believe in 60
ing ahead, right or wrong. In the
states where laws have been passed
prohibiting the sale of liquor the
entire state early has been legis-
lated into crime, for if it is q crime
to sell liquor it is a crime to buy
lit, and the majority have done one
or the other. So unpopular have
such laws become that the method
of enforcing them has become more
Injurious than the original evil, and
the officers whose business it is to
enforce them have lost the sympa-
thy of the common people,
John Quincy Adams, Sixth President
of The United States.
"Forget not, pray you, the
right of personal freedom. Self
government is the foundation of
our political and social institutions,
and it is by self-government' alone
that the lazy of temperance can be
enforced.''
Roger Q. Mills, Congressman and
Author Mills Tariff Bill.
81 oppose the adoption of prohibi-
ton because it violates fundamen-
tai principle of free government. !"
Daniel Voorhees,, American States
| man.
"The holy scripture and the his
tory of the church are alike with
out warrant for prohibition. And
looking to the history Of civilization
from the days of Abraham, Isaac
land Jacob, to the present hour,
where can a nation: be found of
strength and progress whose people
could not be trusted to- regulate
daily habits for themselves?'
WilIiam Eustis Russell, Ex-Gover.
nor of massachusetts.
Prohibition has been enacted in
this State, thoroughly tried, and re,
pealed by it's sponsors as a confess
eel failure"
John Sherman, American Statesman
Many Times United States Sem
ator, President OF Senate and
Secretary of State.
! "The contest Of ages has shown
that the attempt to regulate thu
appetite Of people cannot be sue
cessful. The sooner any commun
ity appreciates that the better. NJ
party can carry that load on it,
shoulders and succeed very long
Ex-Governor Malcolm w. Patterson
-.. of Tennessee.
Prohibition is Fundamentally
. and profoundly wrong as a govern
mental policy. The only law tn
I state could enact which could prop
e erly be called a prohibition law O
" that could possibly reach the enc
= said to be desired-to prevent tn
L use Of liquor-would be one whic]
Z would make the use q crime. "
s Count Leo Tolstoi, Noted Autho
/ and Philosopher.
j. "Why should there be any prob
y bition of the sale Of alcohol
n drink? Why shouldn' t have tn
y right to drink just what like, pre-
n vided I do it decently and not t
excess? Because one person make
q fool of himself is no reason VIII