Arizona republican., 1918-07-23
Not the Work of Party

Not the Work of Party
 'Is the Prohibition Party to be the National Gov ernment?" asks the Washington Times in editorial opposing the prohibition amendment to the agrcu- tura bill, to stop the making of light wines and beer. We may pass the Times arguments against the amendment and deal with the foregoing inquiry. Not only would the prohibition party be the nationa, government, when national prohibition has been secured will the prohibition party have been the most influential factor in the bringing of it about.
 The prohibition party will have been factor but small in comparison with the many others that will make the nation dry. The prohibition party has kept the fires burning and sometimes, only feebly Perhaps but for the prohibition party the march of prohibition would have been delayed in many sections of the country but and then the intolerance Inc prohibonists has prevented the friends of tenn from consolidating their efforts and therefore the party in sections of the country has oo structed the progress of prohibition.
 The prohibition party contented itself with dev- ering it's main attack upon the most mpregnable part the liquor defenses the immortality of the traffic. the snfulness of it. We not enlist the greatest sup port in a movement against sin in the abstract Nor could the people be by the miserable plight the drunkard and his unhappy family. a time when the people not taking much heed of the condI- ton of their neighbors. Poverty ignorance, disease and suffering problems which were inclined to let the victims work out for themselves.
 The great force began to be exerted against the liquor traffic when people discovered it to be gros, economic waste. Before that well realized there prohibition that did not prohibit in Maine, Iowa and Kansas Prohibition first effectively enforced in the south for self-defense; not that those who enacted and enforced the laws anything about the immortality of the traffic. But they to nightly for the effect of it upon industry through the colored and the low, ignorant white population The men who enacted and enforced the laws always themselves total abstainers and did not be- total obstainers under the law. But they it that liquor not easily obtanable by the
 In the meantime there sprang up throughout the country a sense of responsibility for the welfare those who not well. It found expression organized efforts to better the condition of the fortunate Liquor discovered been in par, responsible for this condition it came under along with other contributors to the condition. These people not prohibtonist,
 A little later commerce and industry prescribed liquor. Men who drank could not find employment in responsible position. Employers did not any thing about the souls of their employees but they cared great deal about their brains and their bodies They would not hire keep drunkards paraytics; yet paralysis is not a crime sin. Nor would they keep in employment man who had a tendency ward drunkenness, paralysis or any other disease. Employers not bothered about the liquor traffic except insofar it touched them.
 We have often thought that the men in the liquor traffic, distllers the saloon keep have done more than all other combined to bring about the overthrow of the liquor traffic. moro than the churches the prohibition party and the various temperance organizations they grew they attempted to fasten themselves the country make the traffic perpetual and unassailable They undertook the direction of politics from the city ward to the national convention.
 The fortunes of politicians were made or broken in the back of the saloons Governors. and senators often there State laws and city ordinances framed there. The people had stood for many things they would stand for this and then the offensive begun which is about eliminate in the com plete overthrow of the traffic in the United States
 This offensive might have gone along for years only slowly approaching the inevitable destruction of the traffic but for the which has hastened the end
 It may be as the Washington Times asserts. that congress has been over-awed by the Anti Saloon League We suppose that is so. that congress would have adopted the national prohibition resolution have favored the Gore amendment but for the pres applied by the league. But the league is not the prohibition party; it is party all It organi- zation composed of women of all parties representing the great majority sentiment of the country and representing all the diverse why the liquor traffic should be destroyed
 The Times further says:
 The prohibition gentlemen do not know Wood
 row Wilson They mistaken of they think that
 in the face of his expressed opinion the fact that the people of the United States elected Mir
 Wilson and not the Anti Saloon League Mir
 Wilson will allow them to this country ana
 manage the National Government by terrorizins
 Congress. The prohibition gentlemen can take
 away the power of congress by threats. But they
 haven't as yet devised any plan for taking away
 the presidents veto power.
 We do -"' think the president. whatever he may