Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-02
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A Few Remarks
PROHIBITION AS ALEGAL FACTis now with
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PROHIBITION AS ABIGAIL FACT is now with us in
West Virginia. That it will be fiction in practice
is certain Tax Commissioner Blue had already made this
by his rulings and the supreme court of
the state with still broader interpretation We al
ready informed that liquor cannot be procured Except
under certain conditions and restrictions Now the Yost
quor could not be used beverage in West Virginia Mr.
Blues interpretations and the Supreme Courts rulings
have shown ways by which every man and in the
state, who has the price, may get the booze. Il
It seems that the prohibition law was entirely too
strict for the probtonsts They wanted the state
dry They only wanted the open saloon abolished They
did not want liquors offered for sale to the people
the open bar but they still wanted for themselves
in the exclusiveness of their cellars.
About the only claim left to them is that it will make
liquor difficult to get; that it will the average
who will not trouble too look up speakeasy, and
will the boys who will not have it held temptingy
before them by attractive saloons. We tell surely
about this in about 500 years from It certain that
any briefer time will be too BRIEF for in all the thousands
Of years of recorded history whether the laws open
restricted regulated prohibited every everywhere
has had it's Intoxicating liquors The Egyptian records
show rice and barley beers 1000 years before Christ We
don't know how long before that people getting
drunk, but know that they have been getting drunk
since. RI.
Primarily the desire for intoxicants is the natural de-
sire for pleasure We eat to lve but choose vands
with the most pleasant taste In other Words seek
to effect the most pleasurable emotions. The desire is
made more keen by the misery that surrounds very
well known man in this city, few years ago, being broke
sad GIVE got 50 cents. I'm going to 60 and get five
and Though of course he poorer than ever
afterward LID -
But how many Of grasp fleeing pleasure Of the
moment without reckoning the price of pain that must
later on be paidg The drnkard the dope fiend the de-
generate devoted of every artificial and unnatural pleasure
is simply one who does not know enough to realize the
long price that he must pay for short pleasure.
But those who think they do know better are mostly
those who have through accident Of birth environment
found other pleasures Being themselves satisfied they
cannot imagine why everybody else should not see Joy in
things that
they get pleasure just denying pleasure to Others Some
with twisted minds like Harry Thaws get pleasure
from infhcting torture.
This is not sane Sanity is utility Utility is the good
of mankind Anything that adds to the misery of
dvidual is hurt to mankind unless by inicting that
pain there is corresponding greater benefit derived
for that individual for society To deprive drinking
of his drink is good thing only if his drinking brings
injury to himself Others Thousands of West Vrgnians
do not believe that this is But ninety thousand
than them believed it And if believe in any,
thing in these democratic days. believe in democracy
s--the rule Of the majority
Whether or not the new regime will in the end i'm
prove called morals certain is that it will not affect
poverty Poverty and wretchedness much more often
the rather than the effect of alcoholic indulgence
Taking it only in the seeking for pleasure then the sub
shutting Of another pleasure will often satisfy. During
all the time of the existence of the saloons nothing hurt
the business more than the development of the movies
with their hour OF quiet enjoyment for five cents.
Let those who want to wipe out Intoxicating drinks
Except for religious and sacredotal PURPOSES and yet
who kindly natured enough to not wish add to hui
PAIN to provide other pleasures to take the place
of those they have destroyed Let them help the Labor
movement to secure for the Ousted obless workers
the liquor industry in Wheeling other jobs at good pay
The beer driver got $2 week for hours About $12 for
u hours paid the wholesale grocers in Wheel
ing to their overworked eamsters. They believe them
selves sanced too and they to church but while they
are resting in the cushioned pew, their drivers work
ing an extra day for nothing spending the Sabbath the
manure of the stables
4 bartender is waiter Two hundred Of them were