Evening journal., 1916-01-24

a moment would change him into
gibbering, drunken wretch. What
would you fathers want to do with |
that fellow? Yes, you would want to
hang him and well would he deserve /
IL. Yet that is exactly what the IL T
quor business is doing for the youth .
OF this land every year. Fathersl /
have you any boys to give up to the
great Moloch OF the saloon? The IL /
quor business can no more get along
without boys. than a flour mill can |
get along without wheat.
Brewers are declaring in flaming
/ advertisements the great value OF
/ beer for food Baron Liebeg. the
! great German chemist. has said that
! il a man would drink ten quarts daily
} of the best Bavarian beer for an en-
tire year, he would not get as much
nourishment as is contained in a i've
! pound loaf OF bread The rate of
mortality among brewers is almost
twice as great as that Of any other
occupation. The Northwestern Life
Insurance Company OF Milwaukee,
will not insure a brewer of that city.
Said a prominent physician. There
is no class Of people so deceptive in
I their appearance as beer drinkers.
They are especially susceptible to- the
diseases OF the digestive organs
examined four Young men, beer
drinkers. for life insurance. and to
their surprise I had to reject them
all. Within a year all four OF them
were dead"
Sometime ago, while sitting at din
ner in a Milwaukee hotel. I heard one
! al nulF IA uN
kind OF goods he sold. He replied
that he sold hops. well. you must
certainly have a good business here
in Milwaukee" the other man retort-
ed. The breweries must use a great
quantity Of your goods" mo" re-
piled the other one, that is Just
where you are mistaken They do
not use hops and grain i'm the manu-
facture OF beer as much as they used
to. They can make beer cheaper with
chemicals" And then he added.
"The ingredients that they are put
ting into beer in these DAYS would
eat the inside out of a cast iron boil
er." In any case what need Is there
for strong. vigorous. active men.
able-bodied and red-blooded filling
/ up their systems with stimulants and
, poison.
Il is popular now in many quarters
when LIQUOR advocates have been
driven from every other argument to
get behind the defense of personal
liberty" The booze business is
pirate. that always sails under a false
flag He never calls his organization
& by its right name. To do this would
r be to condemn H. He calls it, per
! uI / L ~ nd
a liberty" is being very much abused
} and violated in these days. Liberty
TO do right i5 Oeiig interpreted as H.
z cense to do wrong NV liberty ends
where yours begins. As William J.
y Bryan recently said. while a man
( would be permitted TO run his horse
I at its utmost speed across an unin-
. habited prairie. that privilege would
e be denied him II he would try TO run
s through a crowded city street" The
K Supreme Court OF the United States
[ has declared that the saloon has no
Z legal right to exist, only through the
/ tolerance OF the citizens.
But some say. "lf by law the liquor
v business is prohibited the law will
o be broken" Is that any valid reason
Il for the refusal TO establish the legal
y enactment? BY that same false rea.
n soning we would abolish the Law
:. against theft or murder. Gladstone
"A well said, Law ought to make II al
n hard as possible 10 do wrong, and az
n easy as possible 10 do right"
Il prohibition does not prohibit Why Is
n il that the brewers of this countr!
3 spend millions OF dollars 10 defea
n the enactment OF prohibitory laws ir
" the States and cities Of this country
"a In the CITY of Milwaukee last year
o there was sold at retail two million
d kegs Of beer. and in the whole STATE
J. OF Kansas but six thousand kegs oi
y beer. If the prohibitory law like any
'r other law against vice or crime
g could be easily enforced. il would
N argue then that there was little need
OF the law. Moreover. the very same
l. people who are violating the law are
n the ones who are accounting IL a fail.
ure and asking its repeal. Is II righ
h or reasonable TO dispense with any
/ law simply at the behest and dictate
~ OF those who strain every nerve e
n prevent its enforcement?
"a SuppOsing I would want to placi
~ upon your main street a smallpo.
~ pesthouse Would you permit IL
:. You say mo" Why not? You say
=, Because 1t would endanger. plysi
N cally. the health of our citizens.
I, What reasonable right has anyon
!. TO place a moral pesthouse upon you
- - main street. where your boy or mine
" may he injured, not only physically
.. but blishted and eternally damned il
: both tody and soul
- There are some that are trying q
- lay upon tne German people the re
- sponsibility OF perpetuating the ii
y quor tfafpc In the last few year
~ there has heen a remarkable growtl
=, OF Temperance sentiment among th
-, German people and many of them ar
!, now among the leaders in the cru
~ sade to abolish the ,lQdor traffic. u
~ this correction Deucit me to qu1t
~ some extracts from a speech delivet'
II by Emperor William of Gefmany t
III the naval cadets at Murwik:
D "I will give you in addition SOM
y advice upon a question which in thl
interest Of my nation I have yer.
IL much of heart, that of the alcoho