The Nevada County picayune., 1922-02-09

this law makes one rule for the rich | with his cellar and another for the poor" All of which is the cheapest 1 kind of buncombe and appeals only to ignorance and prejudice. MT. Tweezer must have smiled at his own reckless disregard of facts when he wrote that sentence.
 I confess that I am somewhat un-
 certain about MT. Twcezer'S meaning
 in the paragraph ill which he refers
 to the enforcement of the law. He
 tells us that if man believes ln
 law he ought to work as hard as he
 can to have it enforced but that If
 he does not believe in it he ought to
 work against it. I hope he does not
 mean that he ought to work against 1t
 by refusing to obey it. or assist in its
 enforcement If he simply means that
 a citizen has q right to work for the
 repeal of a law which he does not ap-
 prove then I agree with him fully.
 But if he means to intimate that
 man has a right to disregard law
 simply because he does not approve of
 it then I beg to remind him that he is
 treading on very dangerous ground It
 is well for every intelligent American citizen to heed the warning which was
 so ably uttered hy the American Bar
 Association at it's recent meeting in which We are reminded that the per siStent violations of the prohibition laws is laying the foundation for the violation of all laws.
 But the most astonishing pr0posi tion in this strange medley of distorted facts and fancies fs found in the next i'll which the writer insists that the prohibitioniSts are responsi- ble for all the deaths. and other evil results which are caused by moonshine WhiSkey. Surely this iS logic with a vengeance \ father tells his boy he must not drink vhiskey. The boy is determined to drink something fiery and strong so he drinks wood alcohol and dies According to MT. Tweezer's logic the father k responsible for the boys death. Take warning all ye fafherS-let yom boys have all he whisIPY they want. If you dc nof they might drink wood alcohol and kill themselves Prohibton>t> insist that the state shall protect itS citizens by forbiddins the manufacture, sale or giving away of wh>kcy. some men are determined not te obey the law. They defy the law of the state and nation, and disregard the warnings of experience and proceed 10 manufacture | their own liquor. or to buy it from l some illicit dealer who has not learn | ed the first principles of the art of l making liquor. The result k death: l and To horror of horrors, according l to AIr TwecZer, we prOhihitionsts are 1 responsible for his death What pity | we had not thought of that sooner, l Seriously. wonder if AIr TWeezer. | who is really very intelligent man, 1 expected many people to he convinced | by that kind of logic C:1. Is il pos | siblc that he thinks that any appreci l able per cent of those dear farmers, l for whose oStensible benefit he writes 1 are tools2 After all. l wonder when i the politicians and liquor propagand- ! iSt> will learn that these same farmers take them aS a class, are just about as hard to fool as any set of men 10 be found in the whole country.
 But. I am reminded that l must not presume too far on the kindness of the editor of the Picayme who was generous enough to say, take all the space you want l pass over several other matters te which l would like to reply. and call attention briefly to the matter of the appropriation by Congress of nine million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the en- forcement of prohibitions Mr Tweezer would have the tax payers believe that this enormous sum comes directly out of their pockets In fact this is coming to he one of the stock arguments of thn friends nf old John RarlnYcOrn l