Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 11, Hammond, Lake County, 29 June 1917 — Page 6

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FROM the way prohibition tyrants are trying to juggle through the prohibition law through Congress one would think that this is Russia.

DEPRIVED OF OUR LAKE FRONTS. With the advent of warn weather it is again brought home to the people of this industrial county the loss of their Lake Michigan frontage, given over to corporations. Of the seventeen miles of lake beach but twenty-three acres are held by municipalities. Hammond has a few acres at Robertsdale, hardly enough for her own people. Whiting has a meagre bit, -and East Chicago-Indiana Harbor controls a piece no bigger than a back yard. As for Gary, the steel trust has benevolently appropriated the city's entire beach frontage of seven miles save three acres owned by a saloonkeeper whose wet goods establishment is almost inaccessible because of the maze of railway tracks one would have to pass. At Miller, where the frontage is privately owned, either by individuals or corporations, the town is trying to assert the shadow of a claim to the water strip by means of street condemnation proceedingsBut of all this lake frontage the people of Lake county practically have none. They are deprived of their birthright- The situation is the worst in Gary, where access to the lake is barred and where scores and perhaps hundreds of school children have never seen Lake Michigan, but thanks to the enterprise of the famous Gary schools we can readily point out where it is located on the map. Perhaps when we are a decade or two older we will knock out the idea that industrial overlords can decree for their own use any land or water privileges they like- Certainly it is a shocking condition that this state of affairs exists here, but it will not always be so-

A WAR FOR LIBERTY AT HOME. If the levity with which the House of Representatives has dealt with nation-wide prohibition were to be accepted as properly expressive of official American sentim-.t and temperament, there would be grave reasons for apprehension. 1 nere was no soberness in that action. It was wholly lacking in consideration of the popular will. It was shockingly frivolous in its assault upon property and industry. It was destructive in its effect upon revenue- , A foreign war carried on in this fahion by all branches of government, civil and military, would produce more consternation in the ranks of friends than of foes. Not brewing, distilling and wine-growing alone would be sublet to attack, but every other business or interest against which a prejudice exists would be singled out for obliteration or oppression. Such a spirit has been manifested already in several directions. It is worse than dangerous; it ia suicidal. Business cannot be killed and taxed at the same timeOn a pretense of morality, the House of Representatives does more than strike down industries long legalized and wreck property long legitimatized. It seizes upon the inception of a war for Liberty as a fit occasion for the most sweeping assault upon personal liberty ever known. Assuming that enemy spies and propagandists are as numerous as they have been said to be, in what way, if they had the power, could they do more to make the war unpopular and break the back of Government? The purpose of this legislation Is none the less tyrannical because it i3 urged as a social reform. Once accepted as law, the United States would have in that enactment an autocracy more vexatious as regards the lives and customs of the people than that which we are to confront with arms in Germany. Because we have enlisted In the effort to rid the world of one despotism, we are asked to submit ourselves to another, ajso claiming to rule by Divine right- The Kaisers who would establish a dictatorship over tastes and appetites here are self-anointed, and, like their counterpart abroad, they expect to rule by humbug and prescription, by terror and force. To enslave the American people is a big job-, but this bill will do itTo keep $170,000,000 of liquor revenue out of the National Treasury every year when money may mean victory is an important undertaking, but this bill will do it. To upset the whole financial system of most American states and cities, now resting largely upon liquor licenses, and put new and crushing burdens upon classes already heavily taxed, is an enterprise which would 'appall must crusaders, but the authors and supporters of this bill enter upon it as lightly as our enemy approached the scrap of paper which safeguarded the integrity of Belgium, and with no more conscienceA battle won by Germany at such cost as this to American liberty, property and industry would be uproariously celebrated for a week in Berlin. Even a German peace yielding an indemnity inflicting such a loss upon an enemy would be regarded by the fiercest of the Potsdam militarists as a fair return for three year3 of slaughter. If we had a drunken Home of Representatives, if we had a treasonable

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ANOTHER thinfr that we hate about this war is that it uses up all the time WE had expected to use in going- out norseback riding WITH some of those handsomely trousered equestriennes you notice posing )n the fashion plates. AND in the meantime THE elegant Count von Bernstor has by this time undoubtedly explained to the

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WORKINGS of the American buzz raw. ONE of the things about intensive farming that a man has to explain to a sweet and curious gentler half IS why you have to plant the eyes of the potato and the ears of the corn. IF Queen Wilhelmina wants to keep her husband, the Kink of Holland, from going over Into Germany to violate neut rality LET her do as mother used to do with us .o keep us home

LOCK our pants up IT really Is the only effective REMEDY ONE little old Zeppelin raid, people, only one AND b'jeorge you'd wake up DAM SOON! OUR farmers do not seem to be rising to the occasion at all. WOMEN are the most forgetful creatures In the world ALL you have to do to prove It Is (o run your fingers along the under elge of the chair YOU sit In the next time you go in one of those ice cream-goo shops. NO man ' likes to sign away his liberties THE trouble is If a fellow goes end pulls a few weeds out of the onion plot THE wtff thinks he has nothing else to do than to go around training silly beans and mashing the poor potato bugs ABOUT 4 hours out of the 24.

House of Representatives,- if we had a pro-German House of Representatives, could It do more for the enemy than to fire such a torpedo or drop such an aerial bomb as this against a Republic that is stripping itself for war? Zeal, prejudice, bigotry, hate, even tyranny, may be, sometimes must be, appealed to in the conflicts of nations. Who but public enemies, who but the fanatical Prohibition lobby, well supplied with money and unscrupulous In the use of it, who but treacherous demagogues, would deliberately divide and distract the American people on such an issue at such a time. New York World.

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