, 1925-10-14

The editor of the Wheatand Times took our paragraph about sheiffs
who laid out in the bushes to catch hip-pOcket vOlators but made no effort
to trap the most contemplate kind of thieves namely, car-strppers, and
wrote a very good piece upon law enforcement around it. He said, however,
that re We're fighting for a lost cause. Now, while W e ar. the sort of person
it-and we read the bulletin issued by the Board of Temperance, Prohibi-
ton and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church setting forth
the progress and benefits of prohibition quite as carefully as we read The
leaflets issued by the Association Against tn rohloluo mehdneh but
chiefly re draw ur conclusion from the growing sentiment against pro-
hbtion which n finds among every class of people, save the rabid drys
who would oppose a change if they knew the present law spelled ruin to the
country. Go where n wil-ask whom one will as to their opinion, n with
few exceptions the reply is, "Rhculous-a farce that should be abandoned"
1t seem to us that strange things are happening in Ameica-an under
current of antaronsm toward the governmental savage bitterness in the
hearts of the people who normally re law-abidng cidzens-whch bodies no
good for the future if it continues to grow as it has within the last year or
so. An instance, which is one of many W e could quote if we cared to, is
tn, reply of a soldier in the World War whom We asked if he would voun-
teer again if he a needed. He had fought for three weeks a a time in
Shiny trenches without removing his clothing; he had been decorated for a
special act of bravery; there could be 10 question of his patriotism at the
time he enlisted, yet this was his answer; If Eel fight for his country
as conditions ire at present, it will be because somebody has poked a 5000
between my shoulder blades and is pushing me ahead of them"
Russia has been held up Is a shining example of the benefits of even
partial prohibition. Now comes the news that after eleven years of attempt
ed enforcement, prohibition is admitted by the government to be a failure
and this month that country became a wet as the Baltic Sea.
Remember when W were told that the United States must ultimately be
dry because after the supply was exhausted and the Old soaks died off, the
younger generation, never having known the taste II liquor would " o
desire for it so the booteggers would go out of business for lack Of patrons?
Sounds like Grimms Fairy Tales, doesn't il? A magazine called The Minute
Man" has the following to say upon the subject:
"The youth of the nation is drinking Is never before. Dances attended
by the Young are saturated with bad liquor Intoxicants have been carried into
the schools and automobile drinking parties re more thar common.
WHY?
Because private liquor making now goes or in the homes. Liquor drink
ing by parents is done under the eyes of children. The Prohibition laws are
damned and denounced in their presence and the children initiate their ED
ersb because they consider 1t smart,
Under the conditions is it not about time that the country should arouse
itself to the great danger which. oonfronts it-disrespect for all law and
substitute wine and beverages for the inshous pohons o. being concocted
AND THEN STRIVE FOR REAL TEMPERANCE THROUGH EDU-
CATIoN?".