Life — June 26, 1919 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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T is argued against Prohibi- tion that it will cause a loss of revenue, which will have to be made up by direct taxes. Tha has already happened in New York State, where a © income tax has fl It is also argued that the present law nocratic, because persons who money can lay iush enough to keep them com- bly moist. for years to come, cas more indigent persons will © able to buttress themselves in ishion against the dry period. her of these reasons, of any other, eptable to most persons who want sition, but neither of If rum is so inordi- armiul as the more natical nists insist, it should no he sold than opium, and the fact t can be made to produce revenue y insufficient palliation of Taxing the rum traffic has always in morality more than it was hi in revenue, and always will. It iuch better—indeed, it is essential— -LEFE: Drinks to keep revenue, with attending corrup- tion, out of the rum problem. And if Prohibition is a benefit, the fact that people with money can avoid it if they choose, need not worry any- one but the people with money. If they will not accept a good thing, so much the worse for them, but as an argu- ment against Prohibition it is a mere tele, great charge rinst. Prohibi- tion is that it goes too far, carries to excess a cause considerably good, and in the end will do harm by inviting r action, To break the clutch of the liquor traffic on the public is not bad at all. It is good. To substitute for the American saloon, as we know it, some better place of entertainment is de- irable, But to shut out all forms and rees of intoxicants from human life is thought by moderates to he both un- desirable and impossible. They would keep the milder drinks and control their distribution. But while we shudder at impending Prohibition and say it is too much, wails come over from England because the war restraints on drink are peter- ing out, and Great Britain is lapsing back into its pre-war condition of over= indulgence. In the June Atlantic there is an article about it, to effect that the brewers and distillers are getti a free hand again and making lots of money, and that the government has lost its nerve about restraining them The auth “A British Lil no prospect of Prohibition al.” sees 1 England though war-time control may be con- tinued, and may he helped by the wor en's votes. He sees “not the slightest prospect of a reform movement in Ire land, where there are more saloons to the population than in any country in the world,” but says there is a chance in Scotland when the Scottish Temper- ance Act, which hands over the future to the people, be- He thinks of the liquor t comes operative next ye it possible that Scotland may turn to Prohibition, and make “Scotch” for export only The “rum” question is a very great question. There is likely to be more than the usual nunt of experi- ment with it, both here and in Europe, during the next five years. Here in New York the Salvation Army is buy- ing saloons about to become extinct PRY SICIANS fled MOVIE OF A MAN WITH A PAIN comicbooks.com