Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1919-01-31
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by HENRY WAT IE.RSON.
MIAMI Fla, Friday-The enact.
ment OF prohibition laws. State or ma.
tiona4 Is personally nothing to me.
Ions $50 reached an age when the con
vyiaiism % lie ceased to cut any hg-
urc IA the equation Of my desires and
habits. lt is The never failing recourse
OF the intoierant, however, to aseribe
an individual and Of course an TN
worthy motive to contrawise opinions
and may add that have no interest,
direct or indirect, and never have had,
in the manufacture or sale OF intoxi-
cants.
The challenge underlying prohibition
is twolold Does prohibition prohibit,
and, il it does, may II not generate evils
peculiarly It's own,
he question hinges on what are
cai-q sunplualy laws, that is STAT
uies regulating the food and drink, the
habits ana apparel Of the individual cit
zen. This in turn harks back 10 the
issue Of paiernai government. That
once admitted and established, becomes
in times all embracing.
Higotfy is a disease The bigot pur-
Suing his harrow round is like the bed
ridden possessed by his dosordered fan
cies It sees nothing but itself, which
it mistakes for wisdom and virtue But
it also besets hypocrisy When this
spreads over a sufficient area and counts
a voting majority ii sends its agents
abroad and THUS we acquire canting
apostles and corrupt legislators.
.4yyaigaS Pulpit and Press.
They are now largely in evidence in
the national capital and in the various
State capitals, whereby yesterdays vote
in the Lower House Of Congress for
nationwide prohibition
We may dismiss the professional min
lister OF the Gospel as, if not morally a
negligible quantity, yet substantially,
an existent fact, exercising, on account
OF his matter OF course character, d
diminished spiritual influence. History
indeed will attest that the priest has
never been a leader in real affairs look
ing 10 human progress, but rather a fol
lower OF the established order. The
professional politician, however, is a
living lie He is, as a rule, the incarna-
ton Of all that is sordid and servile in
man His business IN life is to outwit
the ignorant and. where he can, to cir
eunvcnt the better informed.
The public press has become largely
his aceompiice. Ii has almost ceased to
possess and 10 assert opinions essen
tally rs Own. or any opinions inconso-
naut TO What lac coneeiFes the prevailing
drift il is mainly edited from ths
counting room, so-called, where the dol.
lar mark represents the supreme being
IAa, a1Hhy The press has fallen so low
Ia ine aapl esteem.
toa.a leii Congress, BegoHe.
iilsre beng no Cromwell to stall
INTO the han OF Representatives ant
say begone, you ubbers there prob
ably vii be no new spaper to tell tn,
Congress just what ii lt.-An amniun
ga.A..llu o. nobodies, OF intellectual
nocd.-s and nondeseripts, fairly report
Cd ais n.neompoop measure OF COW
ardiy -abasement.
a. - OMNIBUS. but there seems no pop
uia. sason- certainly no popular out
cry. 70 We degenefates Are we men.
taily OF wiliuiy densef "In nation Of
bind men, we are told, the one-eyec
man Is king. In a nation OF undis-
eliminating voters the noise OF the agi-
tator IS apt to drown the voice OF the
statesmen. We have been teaching
everybody to read, nobody TO think, and,
as consequence-the rule OF number 5
the law OF the iand-partyism and pop
ulism IN the saddle-legislau State
and federal, becomes largely a matter
OF riding to hounds and horns
! know full well how philosophy,
seeking to teach by example, Is whistled
down the wind OF popular indifference
anu incredibly. But / also know that
People, 50 limpid on the tongue OF
the politician, is measurably and collec-
tively-nol TO put too fine point upon
it--an ass.
Fears Wogld Is Gong 10 the Dogs
/ am not writing to convinee-stilI
less to edueate-anybody. Il IS a world
OF SIN, disease and death Permanently
nothing can change or cure it. Twice
it has gone TO the dogs May it not be
that the HE OF nations is mortal, even
as IS the lie 81 MARIN all things OF
growsn and decline assimilaung-
not our wofid reached the top OF the
aeeliYily, ana, pausing Tor moment
may 1t not be about 10 take the down
wafd eouIse into anOther abyss OF col
lapse and obtviont
The miracles oi electricity, the lasi
WORD OF scicuee-what is lett for man
to dol Mnh wireless telegraphy, the
airplane and the automobile annihilating
time and space, what else9 Turning
from the material to the ethical, il
seems Of the very nature of the human
species TO meddle and middle. On every
hand We see the organization of socie-
ties Tor making men and women over
again according 10 certain fantastic
images existing in the minds OF the pro
motors Mon Dieui exclaimed the
visiting Frenehman Fifty religions
anu only one soul Since both the
souls and the religions have multiplied
until there is scarce culinary or moral
conception, which has not some sect OF
club to represent it. The uphft is the
keynote to these Il is a disease, and
al least the Lower House Of Congress
has caught it,
Feminist Leaders Bldmed
society and politics are jointly and
eqIs Ct taalt.. Under the pretence OF.
''hbefaAzing the government its or
game character is being sacrificed TO
lower Oh the established order The
professional politician, however, is a
living lie lie is. as a rule, the incarna-
ton Of all that is sordid and servile in
man. His business in life IS to outwit
the ignorant and, where he can. TO cir
cumvent the better informed