The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-07-07

thing, which we have now, is abol-
ished. The liquor lover says there is
more liquor drunk now then would be
if we had license to dispense liquors.
Is he "a seventh son of seventh
SON.? or how does he formulate his
conclusions of prophecy? If he bases
| his conclusions upon what had been
in the past, he we'll knows, and so
does every other sane person, who
uses his thinking faculties, that if
prohibition had increased the freedom
of liquor accessibility, as he pretends
to believe, that this Eighteenth
Amendment would be the very objec-
tive of his desires and advocates.
Men and boys, who well know that
their ancestry has liquor tendencies in
its composition, and who have had
personal experience with liquor temp
tations themselves, yet rejoice at the
announcement of the proposed relax
alton of liquor regulations and re-
strictions. Some of them have lost
respect and confidence on the part of
thinking people, and at best have
marred their temporal respect for
years to come, and they have set the
odds against themselves to succeed in
life.
The man who INDUCES his already
strong appetite for liquor is trif1ing
with mighty and unrelaxing factors
unto his ruin and destruction. He
overestimates his powers OF resls-
lance and in the same instance under
estimates the grip which the habit OF
drunkenness and the thirst for liquor
is fastening upon him. Men who have
declared themselves masters Of them
selves have found out too late that
habit and appetite has fastened itself
upon them with relentless and mercl-
less grip. Let a man become an ad-
dict to the drink habit and he is sub
ject, as rule to most, if not all other
vices.
The younger man says: 81 am not
fool like my father: l can drink
whenever l want to, and l can leave
it alone whenever l so desire; his
father thought likewise. The son
calls his drinking father fool. But
the son knows what the outcome was
in the fathers case, and notwithstand-
ing the patent ancestral tendencies
goes on like his father did, and-dies
suicide! And l assure you, dear
reader, this is not an imaginary ex-
ample. 1t has had its enactment in
fact within the confines Of our own
regions.
A very capable business man, when
in normal condition, told me that he
never had respect for the man who
sold him liquor, regardless of how
great and compelling his thirst might
be for liquor, with one exception and
that exception was the man who re-
fused him liquor when he began to
drink to excess. Yet, persistent and
moderate drinking frequently leads to
excessive.
In the "good old days of the past
MANY. perhaps it is nearer the truth
to say, most people had little whis-
kew in the house for cases of emer-
gency. And 1 am positively sure there
were more emergencies IN conse-
quence. And in real cold weather a
little of the stimulant was occasional
| ly taken to keep warm. And it sent
the blood the faster to the surface to
cool off, yet the victim was duped into
feeling warm. 1t was also considered
very useful for snake bites. There
are only two kinds OF venomous
snakes native to this and adjacent
regions rattlesnake and the cop
perhead, and whiskey used in the case
of a bite from either of these would
hasten the circulation and resultantly
hurry the venom through the blood
stream. All our other snakes are not
venomous and are not nearly as dan
| perous as the delirium "SnakeS" brot
on by indulgence in liquor. And
liquor, being such a universally recog-
nized good thing in the olden days,
small boys naturally had a taste of
it, now and then, and acquired a pro-
nounced taste for it, and beyond
question many sip was taken on tn
sly, and when, on fateful, never-to-
be-forgotten day some favorite son
was seen staggering about, having in
dulged his growing taste too freely, it