Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A Prohibition Picture By James C. Kelly Organized and commercialized prohibition is expert in the art of drawing word pictures but, in its zeal to destroy the legitimate liquor trade, it quite often grossly misrepresents its subjects. To such tactics may be credited a great deal of the success of prohibition, since it is a movement which appeals more to passion than to reason. One of the fallacies so carefully spread by the prohibition leaders is the alleged affection of the liquor seller for the besotted drunkard or, in common parlance, the “bar-fly”. Science long ago recognized the fact that the unfortunate inebriate was more in need of medical assistance than of either penal confinement or prohibition and, further, that inebriety was due to personal defects rather than to the fact that liquors were manufactured and sold. An analysis of the actual relation of the inebriate to the liquor business will convince any sane individual that prohibition viciously misrepresents the fact when it attempts to show that the liquor trade delights in the unfortunate’s downfall. Men engaged in the liquor industry are human and, like all other men, are governed by human motives both selfish and altruistic. Credit either to them and still you can find no justification for the prohibition slander; The drunkard hurts no one, besides much as he hurts the liquor dealer. From a selfish and mercenary standpoint he is a liability, not an asset, for he usually subsists upon the charity of the man engaged in the liquor trade. Pharisaical prohibition offers him neither food nor shelter nor a cure for his weakness. In a broader way he damages the entire liquor industry by supplying the basis of the prohibition structure. No one is more familiar with the truth of these statements than those engaged in the liquor business. In the light of these facts it is not difficult to understand their demand for true temperance, and when next you see that old familiar picture of the liquor man gloating over an unfortunate drunkard—stop and thinkrand you will discover that the picture lies.—Adv.

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