The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-14
SCOTCH THE SNAKE.

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| The Churchman, the national week
lly published in New York by the
Episcopal church, is strongly in favor
of prohibition, and in a number of
/ editorials has sounded a warning note
against the attitude of many news
papers towards prohibition. Recently
/ in an able editorial. The Churchman
says: There is just cause for alarm
| in the attitude of certain newspapers
towards the enforcement of prohibit
ton and the activities of some pow
| erful organizations to annul the ef-
| feet of the amendment. We can
scarcely conceive of a greater moral
disaster that can befall America than
| the turning of our liquor laws into a
dead letter. The cynicism, the license
| that would ensue would be disinte-
grating to the moral integrity of the
nation. America. we must believe.
has too wholesome a respect for law
| to tolerate such a tragedy. Few of us
have imagination enough to measure
the effect upon civilization that the
| elimination of alcoholic beverages will
have. Social workers know what the
curse has been. Employers of labor
have long perceived the economic waste
of drunkenness"
The Churchman says that after the
passage of the amendment fathers
and mothers were thankful to have
their children spared the temptation
increasingly prevalent"
And right here the Churchman has
come to the very pivot of the prohibit
ton movement; around the boys and
girls, the future citizens of this re-
public, the whole thing revolves.
The men and women of this ma
ton never again will consent to legal
ize a traffic to debauch the young
men and women of this nation. The
social evil has it's roots in the liquor
traffic-scotch that, and you do more
to build up strong manhood and a
pure womanhood than you could do
through all the other agencies in the
world.
The broken moral fibre which
breeds weakness is inherited no less
by the daughters than by the sons of
inebriates; the girl no less than the
boy is handicapped when born into
the world of dissolute parentage.
Only mailman or fool would vote
to place a deadly weapon into the
hands of his children for their own
undoing;, yet this is what the man does
who votes back the liquor traffic.
The children of this nation have
never had a square deal, and it is
high time we were giving them one.
q We build our jails, our asylums and
our reformatories at the cost of mil
lions of dollars, and then we sell the
honor of this nation land barter the
souls of our sons and daughters for
blood-money, licensing the only BUSH
ness in the world that directly con-
tributes to keep these jails and asyl-
ums and reformatories filled.
What we need in this country is bet
ter homes and better schools. These
we shall never have so long as the
liquor traffic flourishes; we shall
continue to have handsome Jail build
ings, for the incarceration Of men and
women, most of whom are maddened
by liquor; we shall continue to have
great asylunls, most of the tenants of
which are driven to their doom through
liquor or inherited tendencies induced
by liquor; and we shall have reform
atories for the boys and girls who
have been warped mentally and NOR
ally and physically because of the
liquor traffic
The coming generation has it's rights.
The future of this republic is worthy
of some consideration What right
have we to sell the birthright of our
children to a lot of German brewers,
and to barter the country that our
died for, for the evil coin
that comes from the liquor interests?
Even the devil himself must laugh
at the stupidity of nation that sells
it's soul and then prays to God to guide
it into the paths of Righteousness.