New Britain herald., 1919-06-03

when we entered the great war. Should the habits of these men be offered as a reason why we should not enact and enforce wise and sen sible legislation?
 Mir. Gompers may believe that the birth of the Bolsheviki was in pro- hibition. l think, however, it would be a difficult matter 10 substantiate his belief. Rolshevism is the child of anarchy. Anarchy has been more or less rampant in Russia for many years. It seems a little far fetched to claim now that the prohibition of the use of Vodka has caused Bol- shevism. A certain method of ar gument is to cite the worst thing of which we can think and the thing most dreaded and then assume that that thing was caused by, in this case, prohibition.
 In a final paragraph MT. Gompers says: q am for the first time in my life apprehensive of the future.'
 The man, however high he may he, who sees danger in removing tempta- tion from mans pathway, in taking an 'evil' thing out of their lives, must indeed be of narrow vision. If not why can he not see, in this case,
 
 demoralizes character and results in holding many laboring men down?
 If men like President Gompers would throw their influence toward the restraining and doing away with evil habits instead of fostering and prolonging conditions that lead to social decay and egration, the condition of the laboring man would improve much more rapidly than 1t does now Why not help labor to save as we'll as earn? Why can he not see that in order to stop 1re it must be put out entirely, not little here and a little there leaving the confag grafton untouched?
 This prohibition law has been passed in a manner provided by the constitution of the United States It is perfectly legal and legitimate. You and l. who voted, helped to elect our representatives and through our l representatives we passed this law. It was done in every case by ma iOrity vote or more. We have no more right to question the validity or justice of this law than we have to l question President Gompers' rights ' to publish his views on the subject With ten years of prohibition that really prohibits, l dOuDt Il you couiu find one per cent of the people Of | this nation, who would desire to re- turn to our present condition. Any l more than you could find emancipat- ed colored men ten years after the ! rebellion wishing to return to the l condition of chattel slavery.
 If the great war results in the total | abolition of the use of alcohol as a ] beverage in this country it will be 1 worth all it cost. With this prohibition l enforced, I see one more cham, which tends to keep men down, 1 shorn away I see our land teeming with a people more nearly free than 1 they ever have been in the past, a | people with clear sight and bounding pulses ready to do and dare to the l utmost And in case of war l see thousands of men, accepted as phys
 icallv fit. who with free rum as now 1 would be rejected. Such men can de- | fend themselves thelr homes and 1 country in time of need.
 | A nation never grew great by yield ing to evil habits people never l grew strong by sapping their vitality l And we can never gain strength to ! resist evil through compromising with 1 that evil.
 CHAS. H. ASPINWALL, l June 1, 1919