Judge — January 22, 1921 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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~~ —\ U D GE R P. Sterner, 2 Gr £15 ‘ s F. Routaver, Tr rer Grast FE Uasrere ink Peratrox Ma ' 2 Ta S. Mereacer, ¢ ag k r I. AL Wannros t E HAT is to become of the rest of T is appalling t American citizen vishes to The re s means those of us who do not lead his decent life in his own wav. along the lines of contribute to the fat revenues of we or share in its dividend y cents a week to make up the not chip in our big sum the Women’s Christian Temperance Union spends nually in ir neing Congressmen and State Legislators ntenance of the tribute to the salaries Rev. Wilbur F. Crofts in the various ure not ¢ straight to Heaven via the rather t tices of the Methodist Episcopal Churet ntitces he holds in the rw ten and pr t J! 14 t t we remain in the United Stat country where tobacco is prohibited, where Sunday is a day of «of the rest of us. If we are going to live every invasion and wh of personal liberty that can suggest itself to the intolerant and lowed by op tyranny and ance is to be goted mind. Successful pressi oppression by the arrogant injustic cruelty ure underlying traits in the narrowly religious humar Lal like, gentlemer over again to yo 1 to th do, that American’ common-sense would never stand fc laws. Nothing pleases the promoters of these movem more than your sureness of false security. [It makes their f Prohibition. You will vou knew Say over ut this prediction, if ve lieve as you rselves who nin the case work easier as was sh remember how you laughed at that and how, be it. it was upon you Prophecy is a dangerous pa on it nothing is to be lost by ge period of making folks good by law, the pendulum will swing. crt itself to the other extreme eral lawlessness and anarchy will have their ne, but having once embarked ng a little further. After this Repressed humanity will Bolshevism, ge turn This is always the answer to persecution in the name of the law I HE rest of us do not want to be perpetually drunk; we « not want to turn Sunday into a day of riot: we do not seck to make others use tobacco if they do not wish to; we are not missionaries to spread vice and immorality Some of us are fairly good citizens: some of us are even good us confine our Christians and regular churchgoers; some religi loing unto others as we would be done by, which does not include robbing our fellow-citizens of pleasures because they di on to not happen to be our pleasures “4 yal freedom fn overnmental interference with his vate affairs which is symbolized by the word Amer to see the conspiracy against his rights now on foot in Washingtor He sees concentrated in the hands of a cunning lobby vast joney and the combined votir From this center ther wer of most of the sums of radiates an influence vd leg islator the force of ul Christian sects slative district which reaches into every Congressional ¢ United States. It uses on every ke t sion and the lash of terror. It has « ‘overed how easy it is, under our form of gov ith money and an alleged concentration of votes t absolutely concerning the lives of There was a reason for Prohibition which has made the rest of ut the inquisitory and costly, though apparently We areendur n good hu ers required for its enforcement h Americs ineffective, p 1 abuses v Or ing its inconveniences We kn mics put over on us the drastic re test, because we felt that un-American Prohibition might be the w that the saloon was a national evil, and when its ene id not strongly pro less of two evils and perhaps the only way of dealing effectively Iv entrench ey for harm. with a strc [Us the pre their crusade 1 iraged it whi essional 1 nists found h the pre hibit nd the ca law-makers that ir activity in the new directions. ‘They h he re of handling have ¢ know perfectly how to work ¢ g it to give up money for their purposes. Hous clement, es) ally in the way of gettin They have acquired a grand education in the art of intimidating law-makers. Apparently they can go to any lengths thev What is to save the rest of us—us ordinary Am slic sentiment from this conspiracy? Junce knows. Pu OOD old public sentiment what he sets out to do. But where is he? What's b dress? Perhaps the daily newspapers might find him if they could only take their minds off of advertising for a bit. If he’s asleep, they might even wake him up by printing a few pleasant truths about the reform lobby in Washington. Also pictures of the handsome residences in Westerville, Ohio. acquired by the original stockholders in the Anti-Saloon League, might help. The women and Sunday-school children who contributed their dimes, nickels and pennies to the cause of Prohibition would Fine old chap who always does sad those pictures inspiring to further contributions towards ng their male relatives to jail for smoking on Sunday comicbooks.com