The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-15
PROHIBITION

Pierson Hobson representative in congress rom Alabama, the subject of which is prohibition. It is entitled The Great Destroyer" and is printed at government expense and distribut- ed by the Anti Saloon League, whose highest paid representative in con- gress MT. Hobson is said to be- We admit that we haven't read it yet, but a joke by one of the boys who knows that we believe and advocate temper ance in all things, and if the intention was to get a rise" out of us, it has succeeded.
 There is saying to the effect that consistency is full -jeweled" or words to that effect. However that may be, we know that everybody expects and demands of everybody else consis tency. We know that the people de- mand it of us, and while we endeavor to give it, and fail at times, we also demand it of others. If you can't pay you can't take" is the rule of the game as we understand it, and as we know that among other things Mr. Hobson is inconsistent upon prohibit ton we are not prepared to give cred it tor his public talk when his public nctinpc Hn hp1r that talk For instance, water may be a great de- stroyer, as well as whisky or the mild CT beverages. In fact, when MT. Hob son sank the collier Merrmac in San tiago harbor early in July of 1898, his men and himself took to the water and for a time it looked as though the water would be their great destroy CT" Just then the boats from the Spanish warship, Reina Mercedes picked them up and here is the testi mony of one of the men, one John F. Phillips:
 And later on, when we were taken aboard the Reina Mercedes, dressed chg. .n s.et underwear, cut off at the knees, llobson, as calm as ever, walk .d up to the commander of the Span ish vessel, salutedf him and said: Il demand whisky for my men who have been long exposed in the water!"
 So much for Mr. Hobson and his record.
 We do not hesitate to say that we are unequivocally for temperance temperance in all things. Our children are being taught it from the cradle, and, after all, that is where the lesson should begin. Over eating kills more people than does drinking therefore, temperance in eating should be taught, because we learn to eat, and eat for many years before we start in to acquire the drink habit. If chil- dren are temperate in their eating and are taught to eat right and live right, there is little danger of them ever becoming a slave to liiquor Excesses of all kinds are menace and should be opposed in the press and in the pulpit--for instance, they tell us from the pulpit and from the rostrum that drink is the greatest cause of insani- ty-that as q cause of insanity drink however. are that, according to the United States statistics insanity is caused in regular order Q sexual abuse; CD religious fanatiicism; (3) drink. The logical cure for insanity (striking directly at it's source) would be CD unsex children immediately af- ter birth; CD deprive them of religion lest they become insane; (3) drink well, there's no use in following this line of thought, for without sex or religion what would it matter whether all the worlds men drank or not? They would certainly have reason for drinking-be entitled to some so- lace.
 
 thousand good reasons. First of all, it doesn't prohibit. It never did pro- hibit, and it never will. You can no more legislate morals and temperance into a people than you can legislate into them success. Neither condition is beyond any man. Some of us just will not be successful, and some of us are less moral than we probably should be. But, what code of laws is going to put us right and keep us that way? None that man can make. Some 37 per cent of the people of the "dry" states is urban, and about the same percentage is alleged to take a glass of beer or whisky occasionally or of- tener. Some 63 per cent of the popu lation of those states is interurban - tho 63 nor cent not expoaed to the