The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05

ter logic, or verify decent regard for con-
venton, the Protective Association goes so far
as to bring the good names of Wesley and Cal
| vim into disrepute by making them advocates
of the flowing bowl, and also attempts to boil
ster up it's plea for the liquor interests by quot
ing the Rev. Thomas Coke, First Methodist
bishop and the Rev. Francis NJ Asbury. the
father of American Methodism. 1t will be noted
| that careful elimination has been made of the
leaders of Methodism of the day-and one is
forced to wonder if recourse is taken to the dead
| because dead men tell no tales
| Getting still boder drunk with futilv, as it
| were, the Hillsboro Protective Association de-
| clares that if we amend Article XIX the country
will find that the agents of the cursed Kaiser
| have been here and have forever deprived them
OF the most sacred right of self-government
that precious heritage of every true and full
blooded American The Protective Association
seems to have entirely lost sight of the fact
that the liquor interests in this country were
largely financed before he by the Cursed
Kaiser, and that it is the interests most closely
related to that same Cursed Kaiser that are
most zealously working for the protection Of
that if the names of the members of the Hills
boro Protective Association, Incorporated, were
published, they would have Rhinish sound.
However, the Protective Association leaves it's
GROWING argument for number
90 Nearly every county in Florida is now
dry-only two remain wet" it says. Getting a
bit intoxicated, which is natural when you come
-
character and integrity of men who drink in
your community will not suffer by comparison
with those who do not drink
1t sounds bit COMMUNICATIVE the Walrus and
the Carpenter:
eff twenty maids with twenty mops swept it
for half year, do you suppose, the Walrus said
that they could make it clear? l doubt it, said
the Carpenter, aid shed a bitter tear
But let up and see
First of all the noble Protective Association
says that as state we are part of the finest
nation in the world. Very well, them it is clear
that if part of that nation, and that ma
ton is ruled by the majority, and the majority
of this state is dry, that the people of this state
must want prohibition, according to he law of |
maj oriy that governs nation, state and munich |
patty.
And it stands to reason that if this nation, of |
which the Hillsboro Protective Association is so
proud, and the state which is part of that |
nation, and the counties of the state, all of |
which with the exception of two, want the liquor |
interess eliminated, they will be eliminated-and |
that if all there is to that.
1t does seem as if, with all it's nobility that
the Protective Association might be left one leg
to stand on, and it's nice little argument about /
the character and integrity of those who drink /
as compared to those who do not drink might /
be let alone And yet one is forced to admit +
that the great industrial leaders Of this coun-
try, who are refusing to employ drinking men,
and the military leaders who declare that in
toxicants impair the efficiency of the fighting
men, and the biggest, best and boldest men in
this country. who out in the open fighting for
the passage of this amendment--it does seem
as if these men have already knocked this nice
little argument into a cooked hat, and in effect
have told the Protective Association to go hang