Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-18
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
in Favor of Prohibition.

Mir. Editor: The outcry against the eighteenth amendment that prohibits the sale of liquer is certainly deafen ing to a large number of Feadtrs of The Bulletin most amazing. I believe that more patrons and readers of your paper favor decency, sobriety, law and order than those who stand for rowdy- ism. lawleSSneSS, wickednesS and deviltry.
 Now, sir. be it known to every read CT of these lines that the writer has lived and labored in some of the larg- est and smallest cities in the world with his eyes and ears open so that he saw and heard things at first hand and I observed that where the liqnor traffic was less restricted poverty, wiekedness, sickness, insanity and premature death is 9S per cent. due to liquor, whereas in localities where the making, sale or use of alcohol is entirely prohibited these evils are scarcely noticeable.
 Governors Edwards of New Jersey and Smith of New York and others who clanaor for personal liberty and state rights are no doubt gentlemen who do not drink to excess, but are aggrieved because their selfish habits are being interfered with and would rather indulge little, thus eontinu- ing the business which has blighted, cursed and damned countless numbers of men, women and children. It seems to me that whatsoever does anything for or says anything in favor of con : tinuing the making, sale or use of liquor must either be ignorant of it's 1 evil affect or extremely selfish. I am 1 user of tea and coffee not tobacco, | but if the use of these commodities would result in evil for myself or my 1 fellowman I would abstain from them Efcr the remaining days of my life. i Personally I have not suffered much 1 from the liquor business as I have not used it, but my hands have handled
 men who become addicted to it's use 1 some of them were in jail because 1 they in their drunkenness had broker the law of the land, others I found in the hospital because they, through drink, had violated the law of nature and others were followed to an un- timely gave Tn the city of London heard q man say that he had been 2 i victim of strong drink and that in his I drunken stpor he contemplated takins the life of his wife and three ehil- dren. He. chose razor wherewith tC do the dastardly deed and he loafet
 around in the saloon till about mid.
 night when he thought his fami1, | Woul0 De 1aSJ asleep ana IL would thei
 be easy for. him to carry out his evi
 intentions but on his way home h. passed a church where Evangelist Moody and Sankey were conduetin, ' revival services and at this would-h
 drunken murderer had some time ol
 hand before midnight he went int,
 the. religious meeting and his whol
 life was changed that night and in , stead of killing his family he em
 braced and loved them as a husban
 and father.
 ,t I could relate many such instance
 did time and duty allow. One ma
 who used to have occasional drunk
 said to me: T hope they'll never SC
 that stuff again" because he felt $ t much better without booze than he di : with it.
 Mir. Editor, believe I voice tn
 sentiment of th\'sands of Bulleti
 readers and millions upon millions (
 sober. law abiding citizens when sa n let the prohibition law go into fu
 effect and rid our fair land if DOS
 sible the whole world of this horrt n ble liquor business
 u REV. F. W. THOLEN. . Preston, March Is, 1920.