Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-09-10

church haS changed to name OF IL
society TO Tho Board of Temperance
Prohibition aud Public Morals,
which Is better. better because IT /
an acknowledgment that Temperance
and prohibition are not one and tn
same thing.
This last named church. whlci
leads all the others In its misguided
and unscriptural zeai for prohibition
being the biggest. / select as a repre-
sentative OF what the others are, oI
seemingly would be If they could.
Having already given do no'
Enuw how many millions to support
/ the Anti Saloon league in its purely
] political work, at the last meeting of
its general conference II ectually
\otcd no less than 100000 as "a
minimum annual contribution" 10
support its board of prohibition
which Is to be moved from Topeka TO
Washington +. -. where, with the
Anti Saloon lec gus and other similar
organizations. 1t is to maintain pow
crful lobby for the express purpose OF
baHb0ozling Legislators into putting
an emasculited prohibition amend 70
ment into The federal constitution. In
Its own words. this one church pro-
poses To have at Washington what II
says will be "The greatest publicity
agency and reform movement ever
had in the world with a list
Of some Of the most Effective cam
paigners IN America to hclp the states
that vote on (prohibiupu amend
monts in their constitutions"
Publicity Methods
More yet Not content VITA putting
lis Iious gag on the advertising de-
Iartmcnt OF large number of news
papors and magazines. this same
church issues a siN-column weekly
"Pullctin' gratis 20 every newspaper
in the country. SIid bulletin con-
tanning matter Advertising prohibi-
ton. and which many editors are pov-
crty-struck enough to clip from. And
IL addition to this Journalistic enter
prise. II also mails gratis to every
one OF it's forty-tWo thousand preach
ers a. monthly paper called The Voice.
which furnishes matter out Of which
the preachers are expected TO compile
n cir monthly prohibition sermons.
Talk about the Catholic church and
its interference in politics. Why
the Jesults have been expelled from
European countries for much less
Of Interference In politics than Is in
dI'gcd IN by this one church, a pretty
Precedent 1t Is establishing. And re-
member, while this church goes to
this enormous amount II trouble and
expense to force prohibition on work
ing men, who prefer a glass o. beer
or wine or cider with their meals to
iced tea, cold coffee or water from u
"n oss covered bucket, Il has. and
has had for many years, a prohibition
law on It's own statute books which
prohibits everyone OF It's 7.32S,S29
members with its 41,925 ministers in
addition from 'tleater-going,'
dancing, games Of chance. put
ting ON Of gold ana costly apparel,
singing songs or reading books
which do not tend to IN" knowledge
or love of Cod, etc, etc, which pro-
hihitory law II docs not enforce sim
PLY because II cannot. Which course
OF cCuon reminds us Of the Scrlbes
and Tharisccs who "hodnd heavy
bg-lcns ON mems shoulders bat would
not themselves move them with one
Of their fingers" But "blde Wee
tutil the peoples eyes get opened. II
Is quite possible that oVr country may
he doluded into adopting this prohi-
hiion cure all What then? cts
tuin Il around and look at II n little.
Suppose the Hobson amendment to
the constitution-or its equivalent
he adopted by n two-thirds vote Of
the congress and confirmed hv three
fourths Of the state legislatures and
law OF the land. What them
What Then.
| have never seen or heard Of. or
read Of. any plan that has over been
suggested bV any advocate Of national
Prohibition setting forth now the sit
ration IL to be dealt with-"after we
get IT,. To my mind the new diff
cuities that viii inevitably at once
arise VIII be innumerable. and very
many OF them positively insUrmount-
allie. the situation, so far as drink IL
concerned, viii be tho worst ever
known. There will bo no large dis
tillerics. no large brewsries, no large
wineries but there will be vast null
.itude OF small ones. At very great
expense Gordon Of police viii he
stationed. sufficiently close together,
all around the entire boundaries OF
the republic to prevent smuggling
there will be no end OF smuggling
nevertheless The federal govern
ment will prol ably confisclte or buy
up all liquor on hand ut Its net alco-
hol value The congress and the ad-
mlnistrators of the government will
oc course. assume the responsibility
Of scclnC that the law is enforced.
but 70 OF the most pIpulous states
OF the union may have heen forced
into this prohibition contract against
their wills and consents, and, as The
amendment has been made by the
will OF the legislatures and not ny di-
rect will Of the people then sely es 1t
Is quite possible that. after all. a ma
loiity Of the people may he opposed
10 t. And as everybody knows, there
has been a lot Of sharp practice. cute.
cunning, uncharitable. u1merCiful
and unChristian methods followed To
insure success but as all has been
done legally the prohibi,ionists will
shout. "Halleujah the millennium We
have been looking for has come at
last"
Making Drunl>ardS.
And this brings us To the other
horn ~ the dilomma--You know,
reader. according 10 the old saying
The horns always go with the hide"
nrd supposn. we have now got pro-
hhitiou. So have we also got with It
something very different The peo-
pie OF the - nouconforming states,
and those who voted no" IN all the
others. finding themselves IN n dry
aud thirsty land, are now clamorinc
for something to wet their dry ;hroats
With And. fortunately for them, with
admirable foresight, the authors OF
this wonderful amendment did not
forget this numerous class without
whose votes prohibition laws could