South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-11-29
WE'RE TAKEN TO TASK BY A BOOB.

We're classified: What was said edtorially in this
paper Sunday subject of prohibition, has very
naturally brought its rebuke-but don't excited
and anticipate in advance that from either
democratic leaders or the liquor interests.
Strange how, those two forces happen be cuddled
together i'm that injuncuon,-and very strange
either.
II is thus because in this instance, we have been
ccunseling the democratic party, in humble way
TO tackle the solution the liquor problem by elm
mating it from American life, this a part of
iemocracys defntionay humanitarian and great pro-
gressive program.
In the light and state history, supplemented
10y that public forgetfuness which is engendered by
individual religious partisan prejudices humanity
calculated to blot from the memory those faults in
ourselves which naturally seek to blanket by ex-
aggeratng like ones in our neghbors; in the light of
such local and state history. say lot of people
must have been expecting that local leaders of the
democratic party would simply go mad, and that the
liquor would take from us-ther advertising
Which leads directly up to the source of our
chastisement Evidently democratic leaders, and
liquor interests and especially the latter
as lost cause long ago. either that especially the
former have AFTER taken suggestion
far aIniss. Anyhow, the s.i52ce of both has been
golden.
But not so with cur esteemed critic Of the more
Pharisaic school. fresh. apparently the
corner where he thanked God that he like the
poor publicans, discovering anything in
his life unless told TO him. handed us this
Before you attempt to prohibitionize the
democratic party. or put the saloons of
business. YOU better practice little consist
ency and stop taking brewery money for liquor
advertising. People would have conf
dence in your sincerity. As it is it looks very
much though YOU only playing to the
galleries"
Poor fool. We withhold his identity out of respect
of his for his offspring. and besides
IL may be- in the light of his current "holier-than-
thou" attitudes. is more notoriey that he is
after-and We decline to give it,
There hasn't been a liquor advertisement in this
paper since last Thanksgiving day-one year ago last
SATURDAY. To be exact THANKSGIVING day falling last
year ON Nov. %.
ON that day. when changed from to an
eiEht-coIumn paper. an liquor advertising went out
We didn't announce from the housetops like the
Pharisees do their every little virtue.
We didn't rise up in church and yell to the top Of
voices that going contribute $4,000 a
year 20 the cause of temperance. as our critic would
have done had ne been about contribute thirty
and as ne do every time he little chance to
exhibit his beneyolonce-
Yet that JUST what it has cost US and here
goes for another year of IT, and years upon years
come This is the arst prbHc mention have ever
made of H.
But society is welcome We went out Of partner
ship with liquor year ago refusing long
or 10 share the profits Of their income by permitting
even "a confederation the use 7f columns to
drum up LIQUOR trade now as component parts OF
society and the state would like 10 see everybody