Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-05-14
EAGLE RIVER, WISCONSIN, MAY IA, 1925

The fact that, law violated does not mean That
that law is bad. Burglars consider that laws against
housebreaking should have been framed gunner
Of the opinion that the statute which makes it Of
Tense for them to take the lives OF their fellow men IS
all wrong, and thugs in general quite certain that
their liberties unnecessarily curtaied by legislation
of any kind Yet would assert that the burglar,
the gunman, and the thug are right
Yet we find that there people who say that the
fcts with of their abnormal tendencies One might
well argue that the New testament is all wrong De-
the ethics Of christianity are unpalatable to
large proportion of the that because there
was Judas among apostles the other eleven
everlastingly dscredlted. What right can
never be made wrong owing to the right having been
ignored disregarded Sucn wild philosophy would be
laughed out OF any school OF ethics.
Why is it that some people do not obey certain laws?
Simply not IN harmony with tnelr
own peculiar likes dlslkes because those laws
barrier to their snail we say, weaknesses be-
those antagonstlc to their pet ncatlons
Nero and Diocetian thought that Christianity
bad but their opposition persecution neither dlsre
dlted Christianity killed It. 4nose emperors great as
they were eStlmatOn centuries Dehlnd
times But before Christianity was ever heard OF
edcts against excessive OF mtoxcants
There never was invention discovery put at the
disposal OF mankind but caused great zeal OF worry
among of the people, Wnen Harvey discovered the
circulation Of the bood fellow physicians considered
him lunatic when the first steam engines were set
running rails there otherwise enlightened people
foretold that blight would fall upon nature and
that the country would be the first llumn-
atlng gas was used denounced as "a menace to
pubnc health, people used to touch the lampposts
with their finger tips find out if they growing
red-hot.
When the first steamboats, floated the shippers
Of all the "WndJammers that sailed the declared
that if those floating locomotives were permitted the
sailing snip would to go out OF business to the utter
Of the Of the world and the sending
of thousands of worthy to the poorhouse When
abor-savng machinery of any kind adopted it was
signal all KINDS of human moes to declare that
it abor-rulnng machinery, and tnat starving mil
lions would follow. Those who did not worry at the adj
vent of the telegraph the telephone laughed at them
said they of the devil and that the pos
tai department would crumbe because there would De no
more letters to deliver.
Thus every measure that has been for the benefit of
mankind has to pass through stormy period, and
this is just what is happening to the eighteenth
Amendment.
Modern civilization wants increased speed because
increased speed increased efficiency but nign
standard of efficiency cannot be attained maintained
without clear thinking and quick action. Prohibition is
one OF the means by which clear thinking is accomplish
Who they that principally interested in the
continuance in the traffic liquor? Are they arusts
think that the liberty of the subjects is being
stricted because he is being protected against HIMSELF
they those who rich at the expense of the
pies health and morals they the people who at pre-
sent are the booteggers' best customers?
Apart from those who wish to make easy fortunes
by its illegal sae the principal opponents Of the Vosead
Act are those who consider that the consumption of Hq
essential to their happiness Looked from this
angle it is the buyer and not the seller who is most in
terested. It is the consumer and not the producer.
When pedestrian traffic much greater than it
now is, unfortunate would and then have to
be saved from under the hoos of horses from sumbl
ing into lake river But in these days of rapid trans
portaton it is the driver not the pedestrian whom
safety most depends This is the age of quick action,
and to have quick action must have clear thinking.
There be clear thinking if the brain of is
befogged by BOOZE He becomes a mailman on wheels
and mailman wheels is deadly to public
safety.
But it is not only on the ground but in the air that
observation-disclosures srequred these Gays The age of the
arpane is approaching and the thought that these
chimes should ever be in charge of pilots who
sistently alert in mind and body is appalling.
There are some people who pretend to have banker
ing after the good old days. when everything moved
much more slowly than but to backward
fifty years to seek these conditions? Surely the
proposition that would wish exchange present condi
tons of living and transportation with those prevailing
half century ago is negligible
Retrogresson is not in accordance with the spirit of
the American nation. No nation backward or
mark time and retain it's place among the
tries of the world 1t not retrogresson that desired
but progress and this progress be maintained
if is hampered and nufied by what the great majority
OF American people believe to be pest and plague
What America wants to do is to raise up of
sane sober men, who will not only mold their
with those of other countries but will excel all others in
service and attainment. This has always been the
bon of every American citizen and why should it be
changed at the behest of a section by
preventative of public opinion, of American
tionality.
We believe that if the opposition to prohibition
analysed would be found that it mainly alien. We
believe that every true American for heart and SOUL
We believe that if prohibition be put before the
natio he