South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-14

modern cynicism always find personal interest peculiar
fanaticism, in the who still lives.
all furnishes food for thought the thought that is only
the anticipated that happening and happening not only IN the
house Indianapolis but Washington the fulhment
of prophecy, not of religious order but sociopoitco-
economicthe reading of a handwriting less potent than
that which walls the of Beshazzar
For how long period stand this drain; drain upon
productive energy-economcay intellectually physically
socially politically, morally?
So resources; rapid growth popula-
ton that might sustain ourselves for long PERIOD might
indeed make considerable spite of 1.-THE
of treasre-f the liquor traffic stood
apart thing by itself, but it doesn't
The real alarm lies that the licensed
saloon for all conceivable dangers such
the republic The drink the dark face of
cloud that shadows national Rid of this evil
and will solve problem surmoun difficulty, and
work here IN the world the of
lar government with the liquor power in the ascendant
the state and alton, that the future of free institutions
trembes in the balance
Few people realize seemingly realize
gravity the dangers that would wreck and what Web
used fondly call our and native land
Take the peril of overapd immigration; of the number and
growth of great Cities the danger involved the
degradation through the liquor traffic of political activ
would that experience observation should already
have convinced every man-legIaor aymanof the i'm
portance of these problems
For years, yes twenty preceding the outbreak of the
European have been receiving into this country from
thousand foreigners a day-coming from many
lands and climes of many languages and faiths.
The conversion of multitude into desirable citizens
of free republic under the favorable conditions would
constitute problem calling for the highest staesmanshp-a
problem be it remembered attempted in all the
of human history.
Not few students of the situation regard probable
amagamaton Of the country certain produce
inferior type of man.
Shall the lower rise the the higher
shall the higher be degraded the level of the ower That
is the big question.
Neither Prest Wilson Mr. Charles Evans Hughes need
expect to live that problem-of Amercanzng
they talked it last fall worked the
coming American with the blood of many mingled his
VEINS will present stronger manier man-f the work out
is to take place among a rm-cursed people.
With the drink evil abolished there hope and plenty of it.
but given the sepess of the saoon-and this getting
close local conditions would have themthe saloon
work days in the week. in and out and that
be of hopeful mould who has grave
Within mile of Castle Garden chief port of for
immigrants located FIVE hundred saoons-acng almost
the capacity of hand of welcome the American that
be- Approximately eighty per of the brewers dislers
MASTERS saloonists makers and dealers liquors.
are foreign born directly of foreign extraction.
Neither this said in contempt of the foreigner 1t
which Americans themselves have couted and
aged testimony of which, witness so-called foreign
dominance.
The liquor business in America today essentially foreign