The Nevada County picayune., 1922-02-16
NATIONAL PROHIBITION A
 FAILURE
(By John TweeZer)

arguing with woman or preacher. A woman will always have the last say, and a preacher is so full of the spirit of Ephraim, you can't jar him loose from his idols with a club. So l am not going to argue. l am going to try to convince the people without arguing that prohibition is a failure.
 Any one who reads the daily papers news before prohibition does not have to be argued with or wear strong glasses to see that prohibition is a na tional failure.
 If some of those pussifoots who are trouble, would turn their health and energy to production, we might have chance to get the price of flicker back to somewhere in the neighborhood of normalcy. If they don't we are doomed to drink our making.
 I will say to the prohibitionist that my strongest drink is milk with little water for chaser So they must not judge me by the articles I write. l am not writing these prohibition ar ticles because I love Ticker, but be- cause I love personal liberty.
 Bro Sage accuses me of trying to fool the farmers with my articles. l will say to the brother. if 1 have ever succeeded in fooling anybody, in any way, it is more than he has eyer done. He also said that I hid behind a pen name when I wrote my articles, but he never said q word about some of those good prohbitionists who hide behind the door when they take a drink
 The president of the Anti-Saloon League made us a little tear-forcing speech not long ago. He said that drunkenness has decreased but did not say anything about the increase in al- eoholic deaths and the number of patients received in our hospitals for alcoholic poisoning, during prohibition, as compared with the same period any 1 time before prohibition. He never told about the high salaries of the Thieves ofPeoples Rights organizations l l think if the "wets" would trace them they would find that they fthe wcts1 are the victims. When q new speaker l for the anti-Saloon outfits is brought from productive industry CT a raise in salary is given an old one, the price of hooch rises The more workers the prohibitionists have in the field the more confident is the bootlegger of the 1 longer life of his product
 The only difference in the two sides is that the "wets" want revenue placed on intoxicants and the "drys' do not
 The article I wrote for the Picayune two weeks ago was so wet did not think any prohibitionist would read it. But Brother Sage wadcd into it with both feet and ever since he has suffered with cold feet and q big grouch for any and everything that looks wet. He don't leave home now without his umbrella.
 IL seems that the word sumptuary. that I used in my last article, got the parsons goat. He used a half column space after he had dug down in all the dictionaries in explaining it's meaning. It looks like anybody would have known the meaning of the word, if they had kept up with the expensive prohi- hton laws
 The United States for two years have tried the experiment of forcing prohibition on the people and the only lapprcciahle development has been the | increasing cost of enforcement. Con gross has been asked for ten millions of dollars to spread the doctrine of dis content of BolsheviSm of Russia at home.
 Bro Sage belongs to bunch that does not know that the war has ended they try to encourage their sleuths to exercise their war powers and enter our places of business and homes with out a search warrant to hold up on the street any man or woman going home with Saturday shopping or carrying a bottle of grape juice to a church social
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