Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-09-18

is practically free from this power and
influence is dry, and the fact, that
this condition and alignment exist |
practically all over the United States
(more than two-thirds of which is
"dry" under local option or state
wide prohibition are not these facts
conclusive proof that the people have
condemned the liquor traffic as against
morality and decency" in every To-
cality where the organized power of
the traffic itself has not been strong
enough to override and suppress The
will of the people?
15.-Another anti-prohibition argu-
ment, (much relied on by the Roa-
noke Times,) discredits itself on the
face of it. In paragraph IL we stat
ed the self evident truth that no hon.
est "local" prohibitionist could OPP
pose Estate wide" and be consistent,
unless he could show that the evils
were "local" and not Estate wide"
For the purpose of showing this dis
tinction so necessary to save their
face, the anti-prohibitionists make
several contentious, some of which are
consistent with support of "local"
prohibition, but are untrue, while
others are wholly inconsistent, even
If true. Let us examine the con-
tentions: (a) They say that the evils
are not Estate wide" because cities
have police protection while the coun-
try has not. This is consistent, If
true. 1t admits tho tendencies of
liquor, drinker, and seller" are all
bad on the face of it, for it admits
that the traffic cannot be conducted
without police protection for the pub
lie, and it assumes, (what is not
true), that the police can and do
reach and suppress all the. evils
AS matter of common knowledge,
the police only reach and suppress
the disorderly drunk, after he becomes
drunk on the street and take him to
prison, and that is a minor evil, and
they do not and cannot reach or nit
igate the antecedent conditions of
which this "disorderly drunk" was the
logical result; for instance, that man,
before he became "risorderly drunk
or his manhood was seduced by the sa-
loon, was a good son, husband, faith
er, citizen and efficient worker.-a
unit in the community making the
whole of it better. He had a "ten-
dency" to drink, practically univer-
sal tendency, says the Roanoke Times)
the tendency was an asset for the sa-
loon, and it's purpose, object, legally
legitimate business and interest, as
we'll as all it's environments and asso-
cations, is to inflame the tendency
to drink so that it shall become the
habit of every man who enters the
saloon as customer. The tendency
to drink and the tendency of the sa-
loon to sell the maximum quantity,
both working to the same end, will
certainly prevail in every case, unless
they are restrained and overcome by
opposing tendencies in the drinker or
his environments which will rescue
him before the habit is formed. If
the habit be formed, (even though it
does not result in "disorderly
drunk"), the value of the man is min
imized. We do not have to look to
scientists alone to prove this. for
human experience" 1.-THE best guide
for all human action, says the Roa-
noke Times), in the world of physical
culture, proves it. Take few exam
pies from the athletic feld-baseball.
foot ball, inter collegiate and inter
national boat crews, international
olympic games, prize fighters, where
maximum physical and mental eff
=
cheney is the test of fitness, and with
one voice it is declared that all who
compete must refrain absolutely from
Intoxicating drink. Think of the
Giants of New York, or the Athletics
of Philadelphia, entering a contest for
baseball championship with a mod
crate drinker in the team! The "hu-
man experience" of the industrial.
manufacturing and transportation
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