The Washington herald., 1921-07-30
Blessings Of Strong Drink.

"A KIND friend who refuses the privilege of per-
~ sonal thanks by Withholding his name, calls
US many kinds of damned fool and sew
eras other highly Aattering He tells us
we Fhave not and judgment enough to know
that liquor is constructive and that coffee and tea
are destructive. If used exclusively" He asks if we
"casnot that only nations using strong liquor
have prospered; the stronger the liquor used the
mote prosperous the nation has become" This is
all IN the of our days life and confess
that never looked at the question before in this
IgA
There may be others whose ignorance and STU
pidsy approaches So give this dictum.
dectee, dogma whatever I'd" it is, publicly to
sDunreract any misleading statements may have
hade.jncludng the not overly brilliant, space-hng
Squi6 lacked a text friends cogent
marks.
= Va understand now that the Germans did
lot prosper in peace as compared to Others for of
Sbuyse they could not, and were licked in war. be-
sause' they drank beer instead of the stronger
liquors 1t was not the French who stood at Yer
dun, but light wines with sufficient cognac dashed
Eith ahsnhe, said to lager beer, They shall
not pass" 1t was British grog that the
Somme that stopped the onrush to Calais. and it
was American whisky that plowed its way through
the wilds of the Argonne to the gates of Sedan
Now, too, we understand the prosperity and
remarkable advancement of Russia the land of
vodka 1t is vodka, the strongest of liquors. which
has made the Russians the most advanced of all
civilized peoples and the envy of ali Christian ma
tions. The Turks, poor dolts, sober, and so
even the wines of Greece overthrow them. What
they need is not cannon and tanks, arplanes and
machine guns, but feet of distilleries. 1t is a
little harder to account for the defeat OF Rumania
by the Germans. and the fate of the Bulgars, but
woe to the United States if it ever tackles Japan
hcfo h., ,L,Io IttIo IL A..
pep through prohibition.
Our only excuse which we have for error is
hazy memory of youthful Biblical training 1t had
seemed that somewhere it recorded that Jc-
hovah, for some reason, of course mistaken, had
told Aaron to drink wine strong drink. That
He had told Moses to instruct that the vow of the
Nazarte must separate him from wine and strong
drink. That Moses in the prelude to the covenant
implied that one cause of the OF the forty
endurance test OF the tribes was total absti-
ncnce. That Samson born of sober mother
That strong drink is brawler and that it is per-
mited only to him who is ready to perish. Some
where. woe is declared unto him who gets up early
that he may follow strong drink and equally to
the strong who overndulgcs Strong drink
is even supposed, Biblically. to in vision and
stagger in judgment, while John was great in the
sight of the Lord though he drank no wine nor
strong drink
But it is never too late to learn and most
fortunately, we have been told OF the mistakes of
Jehovah in time, before the disarmament confer
snce. Informed, it is up to Secretary Hughes to
persuade rivals in military and naval power, TO
enact Volstead law. Prohibition must have top
place in the agcnda. Otherwise disarmament will
be useless, while with it, armament will be value
less. The policy OF the Pacific must be prohibition
Then others will rerogradc in step with the United
States and peace will bless the inconsequence of
the peoples who surround that ocean