, 1926-06-23

people of their rights to the use
of a good thing, because LOO, 900
choose to abuse theirs?
A law, as | have stated, to justi-
fly its existence, is simply a state
ment, in code form, of a law I'M
iversally engraved in the common
thought and conscience of people,!
Is anybody so stupid, so ignorant
and blind to the facts inc truth
as to say that prohibition is such
a law? Man will drink and Man
will die! No law ever devised by
man has banished liquor or DEATH!
Prohibition but makes a bad mat
ter worse. The remedy is worse
than the disease! 1t does not make
men temperate, out it does make
law breakers. sneaks and hypocrits'
And so l say, instead of wasting
time and money in attempting to
IDIOT out the sun TO destroy the
weeds" and in trying to prohibit,
by law, man from functioning as
man, let us turn our batteries on
fanaticism, bigotry, intolerance, ig-
norance, poverty and crime, hell's
Bolshevikii" When these arch
angels of evil are driven from the
earth, it will be time enough to
abolish-in the words of Martin
Luther-"Wine, women and song;
who loves them not. lives a fool
his whole life long" From the
beginning to the end of time this
ever has been and always will be
so! Like it or not, as you please,
I take humane nature and man as
I find him constituted by the laws
of God and not as the Prohibs
wish him to be thank God!
When man eases to love women
love the cup that cheers! But
then, you and I fellow-citizens,
won't be here; thank goodness!
Doubtless the devil sometimes
lurkes in the cup that cheers. but
before seeking him there. let us
make sur he is not snugly enscou-
ced in the 18th Amendment" me-
tiously drooling Amen" to the
."babblings of some perspiring Pro-
hib, who is trying to lead = the
armies of Israel off on a wild goose
chase after some harmless U. S.
citizen Eat a wedding feast" while
the legions of evil over-run the
earth!" If you expect a law to
be respected and obeyed and en-
forced, make sure, fellow-citizens'
that you propose a law which is
worthy of respect This looks like
wisdom and truth to me! / stand
for sanity, decency, justice and
temperance with respect to laws, as
| do with respect to drink and all
the other good things of life! And
again l repeat, what l have been
saying for the past six years, that
Prohibition is not only not disposed
of, but it is the most important
moral issue before the American
people today, and as such, is going
to the the most important national
issue in 1928 or 1892! Failing to
persuade and convince mankind. by
rational thought that Prohibition is
a universal blessing, it should be
a platitude by this time, to anybody
with eyes to e and e and a
modicum of brains with which to
think, reason and inwardly digest,
that mankind cannot be driven by
by the lashes and stripes of ar in
temperate law! But the wise
know, that foolish legislation is a
rope of sand which perishes in the
twisting; hat the state must fol-
low and not lead the character
and progress of the citizens"
As Lathrop Stoddard of Harvard
says; This is a sloganized age; an
age of searching. not for solutions
Prof. James calls, Solving words!'
Progress, uplift, humanity are not
solutions of any thing!
To calculate. to measure, to an
alyze the psychology of human
motives requires hard work and in
%telligence! 1t requires men who
want to solve things instead of
finding Solving words" for themi
Truth depends not upon wishes. but
upon facts, however much we may
like or dislike them; if they are
so, they are so;and the sooner we
quit hugging illusions and recog-
nize realities, the better for u.s."
1 also believe that our forests and
streams, lakes and mountains, game
and fish are n of our greatest
state and national assets. THAT
they are not wholly ours to dispose
of as we please. but hat they are
given us, in trust and we must ac-
count for them to those who come
after us and audit our records"
For this reason, 1 am for the
principle of conservation based on
temperance, sanity and common