Arizona state miner., 1925-10-24
FORBIDDEN FOOD


above but simply have in mind the
eXasperating experience of a Denver
mother, who was recently tried, con-
victed and sentenced to jail for max
ing beer to nOurish and sustain one
of her children. She explained to the
judge that this child was frail and
had a very strong aversion to milk,
hence the reason that she brewed the
beer for it's use. Just contemplate
the terrible crime that this fond
mother had committed-one that is
classed by the proihibitionists as
worse than murder Had she acted
in accordance with their precepts and
and commands she would have pre-
ferred to have let the child die for
want of nutrition and have considered
it as being a penalty for sinfuIness.
Luckily, however, she was tried by a
judge who was still both human and
humane, accordingly he annulled the
sentence and released her with an ad-
mOnition. You caught the last word
did you, and do you realize it's mean
ing? 1t is simply that if she should
be again detected in the performance
of her life saving service that the law
demands that she shall be thrown
into Jail to carry out it's mandates
and that if the judge obeys his oath
of office there is no other alternative.
Cruel did you say-we do not deny
that, but what interests us is where
and upon whom to place the RESPONSE
bility. Why try to place it all on the
judge as he is only carrying out the
orders given to him by the people
and risks the penalty of removal un-
less he enfOrces them.
Your response may be that you are
in no wise responsible for the enact
ment of such an inhuman and oppres-
siye law and for the sake of argument
we will grant the contention. But we
wish to ask have you given all the
aid that was possible towards the
modification or repeal of this mon
strous prohibition legislation which
dictates the food which can not be
used? Because if you have not, you
can not escape your ratio of the re-
spOnsibility for the suffering that is
being entailed daily in this land un-
der the cloak of this vicious. vile
inhuman class legislation known as
prohibition. Now grasp the idea
clearly, that if any of us have remain
ed silent and still and withheld our
assistance after the first year of this
regime spelled it's failure and Cap
tain w. H. Stayton and Mr.. G.. G.
Hinckley threw out their S. O. S.
and founded the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment, then it
is impossible to plead not guilty to
the indictment of inaction !
You do not expect to reap success
in your business or personal affairs
by pursuing a policy of inaction, do
you?-then how can you expect any
relief from oppression and tyrannical
legislation by the maintenance of
state of passiveness? 'Tis hardly
worth while to act on the saying
good comes to him who waits" be-
cause you surely got something the
reverse when your waiting brought
you prohibition, and if you plan to
rid yourself of it in the same man
ner, you'll apparently need a great
many earth lives to succeed, Judging
from the violent efforts that are be
ing put forth to keep you in slavery
and make you like it. Captain Stay
ton and Mr. Hinckley have been
chosen for founders and leaders of
a great movement which is destined
to stem the tide of tyranny that
swept over our land and nearly en-
quilted it's people. The record of
achievement shown for the short per-
iOd during which the Association has
been functioning is plainly indicative
of the reason for their choice.
The one important question is what
share has each one of us personally
contributed in the way of effort to-
ward what has been accomplished
and still more important, what are
our future intentions. We should
bear in mind that this urgent work
for humanity must needs have many
heads and hearts and hands enlisted
IN its cause if success is to be rapid
ly attained. Our liberties are sched-
uled for elimination one by one by
the various fanatical groups now des-
perately fighting for the ascendancy
in this land of the oppressed, unless
we get busy and as the sewing ma
chine slogan says keep everlasting
ly at it" The term 'Iand of free
dom" can no more be considered a
truthful assertion until we have driv-
en- out the usurpers and killjoys.
A resume of the mighty and arro-
CANT forces arrayed against us will
speedily convince any one that this
is no easy task and should not only
make them marvel at the progress
that our Association has already
made, but act as an incentive to spur
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ways as they are able-and there are
many.
The organizers of our Arizona Div