The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-04
GOING AT 1T WRONG WAY

Did YOU ever pause long enough 10
consider that there Is bare possi-
bility the people in general and the
courts in particular, may be soiis
the wrong way around the matter Oh
combating the profiteer?
Did you ever pause long enough 10
think that what may have been sauce
for the goose in the one case, may
never prove sauce for the gander ID
another,
After years of battling and working
after years of lectures from long
haired men and short haired Womeh
the United States Of America, nome
Of the brave. etc, has at last upon
its statute books. an amendment 10
the national Constitution which makes
it a felony to manufacture, sell or
give away any matter, kind or sort
OF intoxicating liquors.
Did you, the ones who are crying
upon the trail Of the profiteer, run
ming with heads low. like hounds upon
the track of the painting deer, did
you ever think that the high and
extortionate prices might be reduced
were the courts of today TO emulate
the example set by the courts Of yes
terday. and go after the effect in
place Of cause?
hoo ri Of tho HOiIrfE in
the good old days when whisky was
ten cents q throw and coffee dime
pound, with the whisky winning
from the coffee on the home stretch,
who ever heard, We repeat, Of the
courts filming and imprisoning sa-
loon-keeper or brewer or a distiller
for permitting John Doe and Rich
ard Roe to become intoxicated with
the juice Of the still and the dew
OF the vats. purchased from the part
les Of the first part?
The distiller could make booze and
the brewer could ferment bellywash
and wholesale the products to the
nous profit. pedded them out TO
those who used the intoxicants as
thieves to steal away their brains,
and the consumers could get drunk
thereon and so home and whip their
wives and murder their children and
burn their own houses and commit all
manner and kind OF murders and
arsons and rapes and other kinds Of
crimes against society while affected
by the cause.
And the officers Of the law would
step in and arrest the effect and send
him 10 Jail or the workhouse or the
penitentiary. or hang him, as the
case may be, and the world would
shout well done, good and faithful
servant Of the law. enter upon the
Joys OF another term in office"
But the strong arm OF the law was
never brought down upon the heads
OF the cause. The strong arm OF the
outraged law" OF which the prose
cutting attorneys love to prate. was
never used TO guide the fist Of
justice in strong and resounding
whack upon the solar plexis OF the
makers OF the booze, or the retailers
thereof.
And yet, strange though It may
seem. the voice Of the people at last
put the authors OF the cause out Of
business, made them hard to catch
and run them across the line, to ,hJ
south, into the land OF cactus and
presidential assassinations, and acros,
the line, to the north. into the land
OF God save the king"
Now. We argue, perhaps in Jest Can1
many an earnest Is spoken in jcstl
that II booze, with the evils OF intern.
peranee, has been effaeed through n,
law lambasting the effec, in place Of
the cause, why cannot the honoret
and honorable profiteer be- put out o
the running by the arres; and convc