The Washington times., 1918-09-22
Whiskey- the Worlds Greatest
AutOCrat
AutOCrat

There are several kinds Of autocracy.
There is the autocracy of the savage chief. he
doesn't like man he orders him killed.
If he is particularly fond of wife, he orders her
buried alive with him when he dies That is the founda-
ton of autocracy.
Then there is the autocracy that is winding up its
career in Prussa-wth the help Of the American army
That kind Of autOcracy aiming at the whole earth as
IFS property has had its day and will 60 into the
garnet Of forgotten things
Today we discuss the particularly cruel vicious deep
rooted sutoracy represented IN the picture this
The power of the drug and poison whskey has ruled
automatically in millions Of families ended millions Of
lives and sent millions of to their graves in
row and despair
The black hand of whiskey has hung families,
darkening the lives of mothers and children destroying
the energy, character and power Of men
The President of the United States wrote an admirable
book entitled "Ths New Freedom" This book has In
spired and strengthened the country.
ii To that book chapter may be added dealing with
another freedom the freedom from whskeys power
It's destructive force will pass from the land like great
shadow when the first Of next July the end of whskey
selling the end of the partnership between whiskey and
the Government will come-for the duration of the war;
as the law puts it, but everybody knows. FOREVER
There will be two celebrations perhaps not very far
apart One will celebrate the end of Prussian autocracy in
Europe and all the earth.
here in the United States.
Two joyful celebrations two vicious, murderous
tocracies silent and suppressed forever.
but must ask itself WHY the alcoholic drug was able to
establish so firm foothold."
Government must remember that while it is true that
whiskey makes poverty is also true that poverty drives
men to whiskey.
And while it is true that whiskey causes sickness
and SORROW it also true that sickness brought by
anxiety and sorrow brought on by the worry of old age
While the power of government and the nations sense
of justice drive whskey from the land that power and
that sense Of justice should fight steadily and perssten
against the that have given whskey its power and
made it the curse that it is.
When you let man wait in ordinary times, hanging
about factory doors looking for job going home with
out it, coming again and going home again without it,
You are telling that man as plainly as whiskey tells him.
''You need to get drunk i
If you compel man with gray hair to 90 first to
the barber shop have his hair dyed and then go out
looking for work. hiding his age and if he turned away
repeatedly, you are sending that to the whiskey
bottle.
you permit selfish combinations to increase the price
Of food and selfish dishonest government to compel the
poor to live in wretched conditions, you working at
whiskey's task.
There are many kinds of freedom There is freedom
of the mind, which comes first
There is freedom of the body, which the civil war
settled for the black slaves.
And there other freedoms If men are cursed with
mental slavery instead of freedom they will find some
where in drugs, in dissipation in whiskey they get
mind.
Freedom from anxiety in old age is one new freedom
ought to have.
And freedom from anxiety for mothers unable to feed
their children well and dress them well is another free
dom that the world needs.
Let no statesman believe that he has done his whole
duty when he says to suffering misery You shall have no
whiskey."
r. Let him. rather remember that you must make con-
ditions bearabe remembering the words of the great
benevolent French bishop of the time of Louis the Four
teenth.
His young parish priest said him: 81 have arranged
to make the peasants stop their drinking of wine and their
dancing on holy days.
The bishop said to him. young man, do you drink
nothing and do you stop dancing But let the poor have
pleasure for awhile and forget their misery"
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