The Nevada County picayune., 1922-02-23

bition commissioner for the hiteo States. Mr. Haynes is ill position to gather more exact information con corning the workings of prohlpliioh than is possible to any other man m | the country. All of the machinery oi the government iS at his disposal ana | he occupieS a vantage ground which | gives him a commanding view of the whole situation. He tells HIS that Will | in the past two years the number oi people who drink liquor has been re duced from approximately 2o'oooo"
 to about 2.0O0 0O0. making all estimated reduction of 1S00O.O00 i'll two years.
 would be glad 10 quote at length from this exhaustive official statement but space will not permit. Suffice Il
 to say that MT. Haynes declares most
 emphatically that national prohibition is not a failure but rather remark able success. This positive statement is backed up by an array of facts ana figures which ought to convince any man. even John Tweezer' It would
 be easily possible fer me to fill not one page. but this entire issue of the Picayune with quotations from the leading newspapers and magazines and with an almost endless array of StatiS- ties gathered from the reports of the great life insurance companies; of of. ficals of great corporations ot public health officials. and of the officials 0t
 cities, counties states and the nation
 at large, but what would this array of
 facts and figures amount to with man who hlindly ignores them all and
 expects the people to accept his ipse dixit in their stead So what's the use?
 shall make no attempt 10 reply in
 order to John TWeczer'>'. rather lab
 ored efforts to be funny at my expense.
 These wittieismS indicate that John k
 still in a good humor and that fact
 eompenSates for whatever sense #oi
 humiliation l may suffer hy reason of
 his jokes.
 But, Jchn k funniest when hr#dec~ not intend To bc funny. For example he says that do mol know the War k over. Now everybody knows that hi. k figure of speech used to describe Il man who keeps on discussing issues which have already been settled and
 trying to fight battles which have al ready been won.
 l submit that my friend Tweezcr k about the most shining example of this kind of character of which l have any knowledge He really does not scen to know that Inc battle for national prohibition has been fought and won. | and that prohibition has been written in the organic law of our nation. He continues to talk about personal lib | erty, sumptuary laws and such like slogans of the liquor organs and seems | bisSfully ignorant of the fact that | these tme-Wom appeals to ignorance and prejudice have been So fully an swercd and exposed that they have l utterly lost their force Wake up, friend John. and rub your eyes. The i world has swept on hundred years | ahead of you. Rip Van Wrinkles nap iS mere after dinner snooze compared to the one which you have been taking. As your sincere friend and we'll wisher I am really ashamed of you that you should he using your splendid powers in such an ignominouS cause. I cOvet your pen for the advocacy of things which are worth while. Why not join the forces of forward looking men and wicld your gifted pen in the cause of sobriety, deceney. and the general up lift of society. Why champion cause | which has always tended to degrade 1 powers in a vain effort to change [ law which has been written in the con of our nation in answer to he prayers of millions of good women md at the beheSt of an overwhelming ma jority of the citizenship of the ma ion
 My heart k stirred and am tempted Io continue this exhortation but for bear. l will not repeat my question. Whats the use. for really have hope i