The Washington times., 1917-12-12
The President Said at Buffalo:
1--WE Must See That Labor Is Free In Doing It's Duty"

The duty of labor, working in freedom is by utmost
production to win the war
For every man fighting in Europe half dozen must
work hard here
The President says that these workers must be ree in
doing their duty
Mr.. Sheppard and other distinguished statesmen say
that labor In doing its duty must be ruled by little band of
prohibition fanatics that control and rule certain statesmen
Democratic Congress is asked to say to the working
men that they shall be free to drink WATER that is to
say COMPELLED to live according to the mandate Of sin
cere wemeaning anaemic prohibition fanatics of whom
not one in hundred is capable of doing real days work
Democrats in Congress voting for total abstinence
which they do not practice and in which they do not believe
deprive the Worngmen Of their freedom they will pay for
1t as party, and regret it as individuals.
The President to whom power was given, stopped the
ness And in an additional proclamation he has forbidden
the brewing of any beer containing than and
threequarters per cent of alcohol
Such beer, containing than ninety six per of
distilled water an absolutely temperance drink In such
beer the alcohol is diluted with thyone equal parts of
usually ahs 1s r SSG a9 IS
alcohol and that amount diluted child take without
injury.
Tr States and individuals that really desire prohibition
ave laws enough The individual is free to stop he
VII And the Presidents wise order stopping the making
and selling of distilled alcoholic poisons viii automatically
free from alcoholic disease the worst suerers-as as
Existing supply of whiskey shall be exhausted.
Entire States that really want prohibition can have
can be BONE DRY if they will the Supreme
Oeurt has so decided.
rural communities desire be bone dry to indulge
in the popular form of prohibition which consists in
driving out the harmless smuans and substituting whis
key citly distilled and extra poisonous they have the
power to do
The Presidents wise ending of the whiskey making bust
ness and his proclamation making nominal the alcoholic
tent of beer solve the question for the United States in the
only sound and in the only permanent way.
Let the States and the workngmen that have common
and self control the mild smulants light wine and
beer used in Europe by various nations for thousands Of
years without injury.
Let the States that cannot trust themselves that like
to be ruled by fanatics indulge in bone dry half dry pro-
hibon modified by secret whiskey drinking they choose
There is good for overriding the President
with vote for the constitutional amendment forced upon
Congress against its will
There no common for irritating the work
ngmen of whom the President says: 1--WE must that
labor is free in doing its duty"
To be controlled in your methods of living by a small
minority is not to be FREE.
To be told by palefaced by rednosed Anti Saloon
League gentleman You swing your sledge hammer or
on icewater on beeook me- is pleasing the
workman who thinks be has the right to live HE pleases
If Democrats think that the ladies of the prohibition
party and the intelligent wenpaid managers Of the Anti
Saloon League do for them than the workmen of
the United States well and good-but they will find that
they mistaken.
To carry out the Anti Saloon League program override
the Presidents wise conservative action notify those who do
the wars work that they must drink water because
pocsy controls Congress would inefcency in war
md be he height of folly