New-York tribune., 1918-05-08

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ing, where hundreds of thousands of
people pass daily, could place a finger
on the man or woman who takes q glass
OF VINE or beer with his or her meals
we can go on making our compari-
sons in all walks and stations Of life
but we can point to little bad as being
directly caused by alcohol, except in
isolated cases and still less good as
being direct traceable to prohibition
GEORGE FRANZNICK.
Why Favor
Dry Nation?
The following letter from a man
at Port Richmond should strike
fear into the hearts of prohibition.
lists who, he reports, are dying of
rapidly in that neighborhood:
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the locality in which live the
people are in very comfortable circum-
stances. All own their own homes, and
te Ine following is an analysis of them.
lherc are about twentyseven houses
IN two blocks that l am drawing the de-
ductlons from. find that fourteen fam
llies who are total abstainers have an
average of one child to each family;
two couples are prohibitionists and
they are childless Eleven families
who are not abstainers, but are what
| would call temperate people, have
fortystive children and these latter
people are the most successful, well
to do and sclf-made.
/. l employ on an average from sew
enty to one hundred men, few of
whom are abstainers. In looking over
them find that about two are prohibi-
tlonists, and they are wilfully chidless
The others that are married and who
are non-abstainers have an average of
from three to five children to :. family
Two of them that have been with me
the longest have seven children in
one family and eight in the other, and
these two men regularly go on period
ical sprees. They are the best men we
have in their line, and their children
are sturdy lot and a pleasure to
look at.
The above begets the following ques-
tion. What has prohibition to do with
race suicide l also find that the
my neighborhood are not abstainers,
but are temperate. find also that
most of the people who have died in
my neighborhood in the last few years
have been prohibitionists and have
died from strokes of paralysis and
pneumonia mainly and were people
with an average of one child to their
family.
The draft has shown that from
35 to As per cent of cur soldiers and
sailors are Roman Catholic. 1t is we'll
known what that Church's attitude is
on the race suicide question. 1t is
o1, 4
prohibition, but for temperance, and
is about 20 per cent, and l do not
think that per cent of it's followers
are prohibitionists.
| personally would bar liquor abso-
lutely except for medicinal purposes,
and would regulate the beer and wine
traffic, and particularly see that our
laws were lived up to in the matter
of Sunday closing.
A DAILY READER.
No Water. in This
Hard Cider Stock
Since most of the whiskey now
sold at old prices is poison, stock IS
being sold for the manufacture from
cider of a powerful alcoholic drink
more insidious and harmful than a
pure potion of whiskey," we learn
from Charles B. Manson, who writes:
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May l not say that l know from
experience prohibition will never sue
coed?
I base my assertion on the fact that l
have lived in prohibition states and can
truthfully state that the law on that
question is joke, and, furthermore,
tends to tempt persons to violate it, for
the simple reason that most natures are
more or less perverse when it comes to
what one considers an infringement on
his own particular pleasures.
am in a position to verify the fol-
lowing, as l have at the present time an
opportunity to join the plan: An in
tai is being formed to market it's stock
at value of SIS a share. This stock is
not being peddled promiscuously, but
only to those who sympathize with the
l-prohibitionists. The name of the
corporation l am not at present per-
mitted to reveal.
The stock has not drop of "water'
IN it and every dollar will go to legiti-
mate expenses. The officers ask moth
ing IN the way OF salaries, and, further
more, they receive no stock in the way
OF recompense for services rendered.
rms company will buy options on the
harvest of all apple orchards which may
De IN the market for such options. The
greater part of the capital will 90
toward manufacturing of containers for
any cider that may be obtained from
the above mentioned orchards. The
courts have held that hard cider is n
distIlled article within the meaning of
the law, but that cider per Sc is not.
hundreds Of thousands of circulars
VIII be distributed telling of the virtue
OF the fresh article, and they will like
wise warn against allowing it to become
"hard"; and also include detailed in
structions as to the manufacture ~ a
powerful alcoholic drink more in stdions
whiskoy.
The last named article, might men
ton In passing, has almost entirely dis
appeared from the market. excent at
almost prohibitive prices. The article
that now is sold under the name Of
whlskey at former prices is poison.
Inc company mentioned is entire]v
within the law, for surely there is no
law against making sweet cider. and
there is no law against informino tbo
pubic how to prevent it from becom nor
hard, and thereby prevent disohav;n . :,
the law in permitting it to do So o
CHARLES B. MANSON
Society Leaders Helping