Judge — May 31, 1924 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE the BENCH “OFFICER, the defendant's name is... 2" “Hiram Johnson, your Honor. I found him shouting to empty benches, abusin’ the Prisident, callin’ the Japance dirty names and showing contimpt of the Wurrld Cc " “And who's this with him—his lawyer?” o, your Honor, his doctor. His doctor, he says, could 1 to the Coort what ailed him. So I let him telephone -y well, doctor, where does your patient come from?” “California.” dy? The hoof and mouth disease, your Honor.” a veterinary?” alic 7 “But T thought “T know, sir. It is not commonly understood that the ks human beings exposed to. public life, taking a purely mental form.” “Wh: re its symptoms?” “Tn extreme cases, an uncontrollable propensity to stump the country talking nonsense.” “Is there any cure?” “Enforced retirement to private life effected cure in many conspicuous cases though it is not infallible. Bryan, for instance—" “T you would asyhu “TL think it would be well to wait, sir, until the treatment L mention has b tri “All right. Private life for life. -omplete Mr. commitment to an advise against Next!” ONCE we had the saloon in ; to-day we have the Ku Klux Klan, and it’s a bad swap. ‘The tactics of the saloon in politics were undoubtedly very much like those of the Kl League, for that matter. known to © elfish interest that deli privilege fre yovermment. But at least the saloon promoted friendship and tolerat among men. It drew the color line, to be sure, but with this one reservation it welcomed to its mothering arms, Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gentile, and jollied and cajoled them into mutual esteem and affection. It will be argued that friendships formed at the brass rail were not lasting. This is a mistaken notion. Men always retain a soft spot in their hearts for those with whom they have busted loose in the unrestraint of alcohol. They recognize in them a common huma us from this acquaintance, learning to tolerate and even to admire the race or re m of the comrades of their cups. Aside from our public schools, the saloon was undoubtedly the most effective melting pot we had. politic: » or those of the Anti-Saloon Il the black arts ely seeks special ‘They included ‘yone ity and they genera Compare if. with the Klan, our noble knighthood of haters who gather in their arid klonclaves and Klonventions to whip up their bitter pre into the body politic. ces and inject the poison of their gall If substituting the Klan for the sal is progress, then Douglas Fairbanks is the King of Denmark MANY of our worst troubk in this country arise from a too narrow interpretation of the word intemy If we realized, for instance, that the Ku Klux Klan, promoter of intemperance, put the saloon in the shade we might show less leniency with the nightgown and hood. For there are countless other forms of intoxication besides getting drunk on rum, and one of the very worst of them is surrender to the mob spirit. In this and other respects we are probably the most intem- perate people on the face of the earth. Thus we top the list in crimes of violence. But we also top it in the matter of religious revivals, in the fads and crazes which sweep us off our 1 the number and severity of t Temperance in all things,” nee. uws we disobey. even in dealing with intem- comicbooks.com