The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-18

built with little delay. l The new building, which in archftec- ture, corresponds with the other build- use. oo not want the strong arm | of the law to interfere with the home 1 JOHN F. KELTON. "J F. HANCOCK, D. D., 1 q. O. BOX
 w. A. MEANS, 'F'. A. LEARN, l "A. Y. FENDLEY, l "chairmar Blount County Executive committee.
 w. D, CoWDEN, "J. c. NATIONS. Cashier oneonta Trust and Banking company
 "E c. ALLDRIDGE, Tax Assessor "REV J. s. DELOCHE"
 MT. Hobson says that his amendment to the constitution of the United States for nationwide prohibition is in Its simplest form, dealing only with a mat ter of sale, and not invading in any way the sanctity of the home, or the yfshts and liberties of it's individuals;
 Enterprise Editors Comment
 MT. l. B. Hlson, editor of the Enter prise Journal, commenting editorially on
 
 Please, ,severy right thinking, sober n- cli4ed, fair minded person, prohibitionist or other, read that plank carefully, tken say honestly, if you can, that MT. Hob son is prohibitionist or for prohibition.
 What sane or sensible lawmaker would vote for such a measure? Bring that resolution down to it's. logical cpn- clusion. and what Is the result? If his bill Is passed the national government has prohibited the sale, not the manufacture, not the drinking, not the giving away, but prohibits the salt only of whisky and other intoXicants. He is also guarantees ing not to invade the home or the rights or the liberties of the individual, which means that every man and woman can make and drink for their own use all the liquor they desire. Is that prohibit tion? It means that you may invite any of your friends or neighbors or strangers to drink all the whisky you may choose to make or tender. Is that prohibition?
 It means that every negro tenant. every negro turpentine hand can make all the rum, utilize all the cane skim mings, all the rotten peaches. make all the corn whisky they choose to manufac- ture, rig up a still with coffee pot and cane reeds, and let a saturnalia of pan da monium reign. Passion and lust, mur- der and arson, rape and assassination will stalk abroad and hell and its imps will reap a harvest such as has not been visible since the days of Beelzebub and his cohorts broke loose from the chains of hades.
 Is that prohibition? or rather is it not a figment of the brain disordered by greed of office, a fantasy of a mind that is either ignorant of the logic of events purposeB playing to galleries of fanatoal cohort. If MT. Underwood did not vote against such a measure we i,aIv ,of how ba fpp his statesmanship and ability that we now have
 Vote against such an infamous pro- position? Aye vote against it. work against, preach against. fight against any such calamity befaling our glorious na- ton.
 There is but one way to enact prohi- bition, and that is to prohibit, to fight the nefarious stuff, root and branch to stop the making, giving away, selling. drink ing or handling the infamous concoctiOn. We pledge our earnest effort to smite 1t, hip and thigh, but to prohibit the sale, and permit the manufacture, giving away, drinking it-neyer,
 And that is the gist, the meat, the paramount issue of Mir HobSon's plat form. That is the issue with which he traduces the ablest statesman in the land that the issue that calls forth laudatlon for Hobson and excration on all who differ with him or his supporters.
 T think the foregoing comment of Edi- tor Hilson on Captain Hobson's nation wide prohibition amendment voices the real sentiment of all real prohibitionists Captain Hobson is reported through the press to have said in his speech at We dowee, in Randolph county, on February 20, in explanation of his proposed nation wide prohibition amendment:
 My resolution for nationwide prohi- l.. l.. - coholic or spirituous liquors or wines for sale, their shipping for sale. their export ing or importing for sale, but would not prohibit man from making wine or whisky on his own premises for his own use
 Ashcraft's Letter to Lawrence
 Hon. John T. Ashcraft of Florence, who is lifelong, statewide prohibition renee, superintendent of the Anu-Saloon league says.
 Tn order to be trusted with power, any party must show boise of demeanor Parties sometimes gain temporary vic- tories by hot-headedness. but such vic- tories are nearly always disastrous to both the victor and the conquered. When We temperance people lost sight of every other question and went hot headed after. the prohibition amendment in Alabama the mass of Alabama citizenship lost con- fidence in our boise and balance of judg- ment, and we even lost the great victories which we had won by patient and faith ful work. The liquor people then went in with the same hot-headed zeal and very clearly overreached themselves, so that they. too. lost the confidence of the mass of Alabama citizenship. There can be no just objection to Mir. Underwood's S character, quality of manhood or states manship taken as whole. The universal coniid nee which he has won in all parts of the country. and even among all civil ]