The weekly soliphone., 1917-06-07
THE NATIONS TWO ENEMIES.


 mighty fine shape to whip at least two supreme enemies at and the time War both sides has beenI declared Each is menacing, deeprooed One sas thel vgor of manhood in all it's stages and in all conditions of lfe the other absobs the initiative of the people,
 It is not at all peculiar unnatural that we should today find ourselves engaged in mortal combat with these two opponents of liberty and civilization at the same time and it is peculiarly fitting that both should be subducd simultaneously In order to defeat the one we must conquer the other In order to prove to our own people that government taking serious view of it's obligations to mankind and it's relations to oTI allies it becomes necessary that the first drive of the| great be made against the entrenched liquor inter- ests within borders. We can never hope to sue cessfully repe invasion, the Atlantic to pro- tect England and France and Russia and Italy our boys in khaki must stumble whiskey bottles and bVouac in cemeteries where lie thousands who have been sacl1 feed ta , Demon Drink We hope to winI laurels ar to those by the matchless youths of France who Wthstood the repeated shocks at Verdn II we neglect to crcuscribe the wherein flows thlsl deadly poison, and feel assured that thel spy and the traitor is not within ranks long the skull and cross-bones upon the bottle is permitted toI adorn the hp-pocket the knap-sack of sol diers
 These are cold facts now being considered att Washington It is not enough that we of Arkansas, off Oklahoma of Alabama, of Kansas and of all the other states where Purits Banner has rumphed over Perdl stion in large content with our individual conditions has reference to the liquor traffic Vel are in the war perhaps, for period of years No one is competent to judge of the weary months and tyng periods which yawn before We will be called upon, in all probability to give up the best have-our young men between the ages of twentyone and thirty Youths just past eighteen may voluntarily join the coors It isl needless to say thousands of them will do The first call for five hundred thousand men will be followed byI a second a third fourth, and maybe fifth demand that human flesh and human blood be marshalled forl the cruel ordeal of Our boys will be sent to camps
 
 juice and peach and apple brandy flow unrestricedy. Young mon who have been reared by sober fathers and prayer mothers will come ln contact With the derectl class The good will be blended with the bad. The cut throat will often be companion with the best boys wei know It is under conditions of this kind that hquor8| most whitening influences felt Truly has bcenI said that whiskey is the traitor in the military camp. Russia usually slow in motion in governmental matters, weighed down with ignorance and myths nonprogresslve and cruel realized that the Sav and drink made poorl fighting comrades. The Slav was needed more thanI vodka and prohibition went into effect through the n strmentaity of royal ukase. France Italy, Great Brit an-al the warning powers have been forced to confess that strong drink and clear brain do not go hand m hand and have taken precautionary measures designed to keep liquors away from not only the soldiers, but the civil population.
 The fight against liquor is on at Washington today and it will continue until congress has had fair andl square chance to vote to kill the snake President Will son is prohbitionist He will not take steps in tended to annihiate the traffic unless he is made toI realizc # upon these steps the nations vel fare lds. His is view we of the prohibitionI states do ot share, yet his is task few indeed would be capable of dscharging. It is time to criticize theI President because of his anti prohibition views He isl just sincere in believing that total abstnance is not essential to the wellbeing of mankind is the w. C. T. U in believing that all that szzles paakes of hell andI that all which echoes to the turn of corkscrew is bomd to be precipitation from the devils sweatgands It isl 0ply that OiVp tors to understand that their actions being Watched and that public sentiment will admit of no temporzing. We of Arkansas have little to fear in this respect l would be mad political suicide if either Senator Robin