The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-10-09
DR. PARKHURST ON.
 TEMPERANCE
Morality Cannot Be Secured by Legis- lation. How Prohibition Works for Drunkenness.

There are problems which never grow old and to which the mind continually reculs as the waves are the problems which connect them selves with human nature and which deal with evils that have origin in the infirmities of that nature.
 By infirmities we mean simply those appetities, common to us all, and which, unless held under the control, gain destructive asceLdency over the entire man. Prominent among these, and receiving considerable attention at the present time, both at home and in Europe, is the appetite for drink somewhat more highly favored than any which is yielded by the brook or the cistern.
 This appetite is a natural one natural in the sense of not needing to be acquired, but existing as a part of our physical constitution and, like the other bodily tendencies, inclined to- ward some means of satisfaction.
 What the stomach craves is some kind of liquid condiment answering somewhat the same purpose in fluid shape that salt, pepper andy other shape.
 The sense of taste, like that of hearing and of sight, takes pleasure in being urgently appealed to. Just as music full of vivacity stimulates the ear, and bright colors fascinate the eye, so the palate has native craving for something that is pleasant ly out of the ordinary-something that gives it lively consciousness of it's own existence and action. We express this by saying that we like relishes.
 Foundation of Desire for StimuIants
 in Our Constitution.
 The boy has to be rather unusually hungry to be satisfied with bread un- less it is overlaid with a coating of jam. Something has been gained then, if we have been brought clearly to realize by these illustrations that the foundation for all such cravings for stimulants is laid in our original physical constitution.
 The means we take to satisfy such cravings may be various, some of them good and some of them not so good, but the cravings exist and have got to be reckoned with, and whether a man quenches his thirst with lemon ade, Apollinaris or wine, he is in each case alike responding to the de .mands of an impulse which is one of the gifts with which a beneficent na- ture has endowed him.
 Our tables will be furnished with salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar, and if it is also provided with condiments of a more fluid type it will be at the suggestion of the same native de- mand as occasioned the use of the more solid appetizers.
 Once realize that the craving is legitimate, and that therefore it's satis- faction is legitimate, rather sharp line is drawn within which all valid efforts, looking to governm ental con- trol over the means of it's satisfac- tion, will require to be conducted.
 Morality and Legislation.
 It is, of course, immoral to allow the appetite for drink or any other appetite to exercise over us a des- potism. But, unfortunately, morality is not a result that can be secured by legislation; and there is no greater problem within the sphere of legisla tion than that of striving to restrain the harmful results of immortality.
 It is rude interference with per sonal liberty for the law to tell me what I shall eat or how much I shall eat. It is just as rude an interfer- ence for it to prescribe what I shall drink, and how much.
 There is no kind of temperance more extreme than that which is dis played by people who, out of an nn- res soning desire to better the moral condition of society, venture upon the eXpedient of an enforced morality, and who for the sake Of eliminating some practice which admits of being car