New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1915-10-23

loss OF LIE ana ueSlIuctloll VI
property. The inslstent, pestl-
ferrous boil weevil, that elusive
insect that hurled agonles ana
pain into the cotton exchanges or
the land can only thrive and
hibernate in liquor soaked
State like Louisiana. The sins of
that modern Sodom. New Orleans
assumed CHASTITY expression and
ominous consequences in the APP
pearance Of bubonic plague and
the saloon ridden town is always
being menaced with that awful
punishment to be administered by
the Mississippi river through
flood and pestilence carrying III It's
wake disaster and death.
The liquor traffic must also as
sumo responsibility for the pas
sage of the Wilson bill and the
staggering blow delivered to
the sugar industry. | assume
that if Louisiana would accept
prohibition as panacea, the
market Of hope in the hereafter
and some notable exemptions
thereafter could be perceptibly
bulled. Louisiana has in round
numbers 100000 white people of
whom several thousand have re-
NAMED illiterate through inf1u-
ence of tradition and custom. In
computing Louisianas wealth III
comparison with that of Kansas
or any other State it should be
based on the literate white pop
ulation who own and direct the
resources and maintain the steady
march of progress.
If in white population Of 1,1O0,-
600 of Kansas the per capita CIR
culation Of money is $4,000 and
a conglomerate one of smaller
size in Louisiana $1,000 the
amended figure for Louisiana
based on a literate white popula-
ton would be over $4,000 per
capita. In such combat the
liquor interest would carry OF
the honor. 1t is idle though to
speculate on the amount of good
or bad those special fads and
waves exercise on the sane, order
lv mass movement of our cOun-
try. The cumbersome bulk of
population is not so easily moved
and impregnated with those pc
riodical hysterias. The stone
wall Of common sense has sur
vived all shocks and resisted all
onslaughts up to the present time
and we SCI no appreciable change
in it's fibre and force. To use
prohibition as shibboleth lead
ing to redemption and salvation
is to make the fetch loss it's charm
and its occult influence. The We
etarian, the fagellant and score
of other sects are thrilled by the
same sacred fire. The tempera-
ment Of Germany can never as
sumo reality without it's associa-
ton with beer and hops.
The song and the muse of
France would feel deserted with
out its Burgundy and its Bor-
deaux. Even the numbering Eng
hshman would change the nation
al emblem typifed by John Bull
without his ale and porter. When
orators of certain sects ignore
warning temperaments. national
characteristics. hereditary habits
and historical conditions. those
elusive attributes and shadowy
that differeth one man
from another as much as one face
looks different from another and ,
by certain spiritual gymnastics at
tempt to impose rigid program
Of conduct and hygiene they are
merely refeaturing under modern
the celebrated stunts
Ut Don Quixote. No devoted
student Of life and man has ever
attempted to solve social problems |
by that strategy.
Rights, habits, temperaments, !
surroundings. economic affairs, !
intelligence, education, mentality, ,
social and religious beliefs, posi- !
lion, power are few of the va :,
riety of aspects that confront
Zach proposed change of our ordi-
nary. common daily life. In fact
The psychology of human exist
snce demands analysis and rec
ignition. How then can we ex-
oect a prohibition preacher, gen.
orally a political figure whose
neteoric light has disappeared
rom his usual. accustomed hori-
ION. to hand you with vocal thun-
Ter and noise. finished, settled