Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1915 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

PROHIBITION INTIMIDATION By James C/ Kelly The entire prohibition structure is founded upon intolerance. It is held together by political, financial and social intimidation. It is subsisting upon the moral cowardice of those who fear to express sincere convictions which may disagree with the propaganda of the paid leaders of the prohibition movement. It cannot be truthfully said that the rank and file of prohibitionists are insincere, and ordinarily would approve of the vicious methods employed by their professional leaders, but it is true that right here in our own state these agitators are intimidating, or attempting to intimidate, business and professional men of high character. Men qualified to administer public office are being threatened with political destruction if they dare entertain honest opinions which do not coincide with the prohibition dogma. Your prohibition leader is ever willing to entrust the public welfare to any blatant demagogue who espouses the “cause”. Business men of standing are threatened with ruin if they dare suggest any solution of the liquor question other than prohibition. Even the press does not escape in this campaign of intimidation. Prohibition threatens every newspaper which has the backbone to open its columns to a fair discussion of the public question. It intolerantly demands that it alone be heard. If prohibition has any claim for support it does not present it. It raves about intemperance, and every sane man frowns upon intemperance, but it does not explain how it is going to remedy the evil or why it has failed to do so in the past. Prohibition does not appeal to reason but to fear. It is unwilling to go to trial upon its merits unless the evidence of the other side is barred. If prohibition has decreased intemperance, let it show its record. The policy of intimidation adopted by its present leaders may bring temporary success, but it reduces the entire movement to the level of a political and social bully, the willing tool of any politician with brains enough to dominate it.—Adv.

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