Arizona state miner., 1925-11-21
CHUMMY CHATS

majority of the victims do not have
the means to fight back and appeal
it is plainly evident that a great
amount of hardship is thereby en-
tailed. Any person capable of rea.
soning should easily perceive that
| there is about one mode of escape
left open, viz: cast your lot with the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment, and do it now, then work
necessarily for IMMEDIATE MODI-
FICATION AND ULTIMATE RE-
| PEAL.
Again our Supreme Court has been
asked to affirm the mo search of
private dwelling without warrant"
matter and of course could only re-
iterate it's previous illegal, unrea-
| sOnable and abhorrent" verdict. The
decision sounds all right enough, but
! the important point is as to how well
i the matter is understood by the min
| ions of the law in the lower courts,
and how much hardship and injustice
is imposed through their ignorance
of what the PROPER ENFORCE
MENT SHOULD BE? If a disinter-
! ested person had to read a chronicle
| of just the merest details of all the
! countrywide violations of this law
since January, 1920, between any two
meals, we will wager he would be so
hungry that he would wish that hu-
mans had never been such fools as
to begin making laws to regulate
each others morals.
In noting with extreme regret the
! death of our worthy co-laborer Ex-
| congressman Isaac r. Sherwood of
Toledo, who has just passed at the
ripe age of 80 years, we see that
pern1cious anaemia was stated as be-
ing the cause of his demise. If he
was possessed of a constitution so
vigorous as to repeI the advances of
the grim reaper for 80 long years,
HOW CAN WE KNOW how much
longer he might have been able 20
have remained in our midst had he
have been unhampered by oppressive
laws and permitted the free use of
health sustaining beverages like pure
beer, wines ana cordials? And yet
MS case is only specimen and not
at all unlike that of countless thou
sands of victims of LAWFUL BRU-
TALITY who sOrrOwfully suffer and
pine away, dying slowly and pain
fully in our fanatic ridden land today.
The reader knows as we'll as does
the writer that our tyrant ruled state
OF Arizona alone, even as small in
her population, yet contains many
thousands of utterly wretched tuber-
cular humans whose almost. only al
deviation from their stricken condi-
tlOn would be the consumption of a
varying amount of pure liquor daily.
And remember that we ASSERT EN-
PRACTICALLY that the object is NOT
QUALIFICATION but is only FOR
ALIENATION, yet because of mans
1nhumanlty to man is their dire nee
essities refused and verify we say
that thrice their sufferings should be
allotted to those who have been at
all instrumental in their excruciating
DEPRIVATION. Vengeance is mine.
Will repay saith the Lord The
mills OF the Gods grind slowly but
they grind exceeding small.
AS was becoming to a true friend
of human liberty, Gen Sherwood paid
his compliments to the vile and vic
1ous Volstead law in January, 1924,
when the hearings for modification
were in progress before the Congress
s1onal Committee. We will only
quote one of his forceful assertions
in which he said, 'the Anti-Saloon
League is not Christian in it's me-
t1ods, but instead is vindictive,
vengeful and mercenary and because
of its drastic methods is responsible
for the infliction of the largest crop
of lawbreakers with which any coun-
try has ever been cursed"
Well, well! How the pendulum
does swing back and history repeat
itself. This soliloquy is caused by
the eye of the writer catching the
headline stop Whiskey' while re-
Gently perusing publication of nation
wide circulation. This firm, the ad-
vertisements of whom in the old days
many of you would no doubt remem-
ber, probably thought some five years
ago that it would be up to them to
seek out new line of endeavor in the
alienation of human ills, but the
trend of events has apparently seemed
to indicate to them that the "pendu-
lum was swinging back" as some of
the text in their current advertise
ment runs thus: "Wives, mothers,
sisters it is you that the man who
drinks whiskey, wine or beer to ex-
cess must depend upon to save from
a ruined life and drunkard's grave
Take heed from the thousands of men
(and we should add, boys and girls)