The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-10-06

John knew that the holder of his stock would close his
eyes the evils of the liquor traffic. and the who
cepted large of liquor money for pressing need
would be slow to condemn the drinking of intoxicating
drinks join who had in view the restriction
or abolition of the liquor trade
In this war-scourged world King Alcohors friends
becoming fewer The number of his subjects is dwndng
His sun is setting Blind is the man who today cannot
the ruin alcohol has wrought, the misery it has
caused the hearts has broken the souls it has sent to
perdtion. Unfortunately, there are some cities and
nghted localities where John Bareyco yet yields the
scepre. There are some places still where young and
old at his beck and CALL and it requires social
upheava dsodge this constituencies ruler from his
John Bareycorn's troubles have grown of late
years. While only moralists contend with he
very little for worry. In those freefrom-care
days of old all he had do besmrch the character
him who called public attention to the wreckage made
by liquor drinking and the vices attributable to the
liquor Omes John did need to act the part Of
character assassin. All that to do to
apply the appelaon CRANK" "reformer" prohibition
ist' to the antllquor and the number who needed
such marked individual suddenly decreased.
Why should the word prohibition give many the
shivers? Why should the term prohbitionist destroy
mans usefulness in parts OF this great country
cannot either question those terms
repulsive to There who regard the wiping
out of the liquor traffic the greatest disaster that could
a ASK
strange ideas and they cannot give Oh yes!
They think they give than substantial
for radically opposing the prohibition of the sale
of intoxicating drinks but when insist their stick
ing to facts they robbed of their antiprohibton
Of late there has been industrousy cir
culated much proiquor matter that requires very
dacious mind to invent and very gullble persons to
swallow In conversation with prominent Catholic
citizen of St. Paul. the question of prohibition accdently
intruded itself At my coolheaded friend became
lie unreStainedy
surprising statements When required to give proof
Of his contention that prohibition kills town, he
said: In b since went dry, from 800 to 500 peo-
pie left there AS the which he referred SMALL
and had voted out the saloons only five months before
wrote to the parish priest for information In
query to the size of the he told the popu
lation is 1900 To the important question, "How
had left there since the ry?" he wrote
that he knew of only family having left in that time
soloonkeeper and family My much dyed-in-the-wool
proiquor friend could have himself written reliable
information and set himself right this point is
not what pronounced antiprohibitonsts They
prefer to have against the wipng out of
the liquor traffic though those arguments
foundation in fact.
There argument to sustain the drinking of ntoxi
eating liquors. The old notions about the strengthening
and ifelenghening of alcoholic beverages for
dispelled from normal minds It is longer held.
to be cure-all by people 1t is not family
medicine in weregulated homes Alcohol is discredited
by the scientist the physician the employer the judge,
the philanthropist the patriot the
business man.
1 have already pointed out to what immoral extremes
love of independence will carry people, I have
shown in previous article the degrading
destroying effects of selfshness convinced there
only two be given for ones favorng
the of liquor is in the trade these two
dangerous desire for personal liberty and debat
ing selshness The present corrective of both
these individual and national defects