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Mr Nome Mine Workers’ Union. No. *40. Western Federation of Miners.
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•early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government."—
abranatn Lincoln
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From time to time we hear it la
mented that prohibition cannot be
enforced and high minded people,
the latest of whom is Cardinal Gib
bons, declare their mind to this
effect.
If prohibition did not effectively
reduce the consumption of liquor ii
is quite clear that brewers and di
stillers would not oppose it. Why
should they? There is no reason in
the world if this prohibition could
not be enforced why the liquor in
terests should oppose it at all. It is
or ought to be quite immaterial
whether the intoxiating liquor is
sold by a blind pig or by a saloon,
as far as its makers are concerned,
and the tone of the brewery or di
stillery owned saloon lias nevei
been of such a standard that it
would lead one to believe the ma
nufacturers were very much con
cerned under what condition the
goods they made were sold.
But the simple fact is that the
breweries and the distilleries know
full well that with prohibition
comes the decrease in the sale ot
their goods and even in a place like
Seattle or a State like Washington
where liquor can be secured ror
home consumption if required, the
saloons and liquor dealers, the
brewers and distillers joined hands
to defeat the bill.
The very painful fact for the li
quor interests is that prohibition
does prohibit.
Your cannot fool them. They
know what is what. You can de
clare all you want that the con
sumption of liquor will not be stop
ped or hampered by the prohibition
law, the distiller or the brewer who
knows much more about the facts,
because the facts touch his pocket
b^ok, is too well posted to accept
your statement. He goes to work
and gets busy flooding the country
with literature all of which has for
its purpose the object of defeating
prohibition.
It is quite astonishing that the
very same purpose for which this
argument is issued is also respons
ible for another which is the very
opposite of that. That is that pro
hibition by stopping a person's pri
vilege of drinking is an arbitary in
terference with the natural right
of the individual. The liquor inter
ests lay their bet both ways in the
sure and certain hope of winning.
Obviously if prohibition does not
prohibit, as the liquor men and
friends claim, then equally obvi
ously it interfered with no rights,
and obviously also if it does stop
a mail from having his drop of 11
quor, it provides a very real prohi
bition.
This effort to straddle two horses
is really significant of the despera
tion of any cause and the liquor
men ought to exercise more judg
ment in the argument they put up..
Cardinal Gibbons intimates that
prohibition will compel the booze
lighters to eschew good whiskey and
take to the bad back door material.
To a certain extent he may be cor
rect. Yet certain it is that the baa
material will be available to so
many less than the good whiskey
before administered delight and
death to, that the people who con
sider things w'th a larger perspec
tive can afford to consider the pro
hibition future with some equan
amity.
Good whiskey is a relative ex
pression. Back in younger days the
writer recalls how the golden glow
of youthful hopefulness was in
ceased by the forty and five differ
ent delights in glass of whiskey,
and how one shrewd old saloon
keepr who when asked for a glass
of his best significantly suggested
that “bad was the best of it’’. Ana
no matter who he is that defends
alcoholic liquor, he will reach that
time when he will agree with the
aaloonlst that bad is the best of It.
I The assertion that prohibition is
certain to make hypocrites is a
| graver matter. It unquestionably
contains food for thought. The mat
ter of drinking or not drinking
should be a matter for the individ
ual if that individual could keep
himself to himself.
But he does not. He Insists upon
making everyone share his convivi
ality. He wants to fight Jess Will
ard. He gets the quaint notion that
he can sing better than Caruso. He
tries to feed the fishes in the street
and gets sea sick in the public re
staurant. He obtains the singulai
notion that side walks were made
to lie upon. He insists upon every
woman being a subject for his lady
killing propensities and believes in
making every one a co-partner in the
fields of illimitable knowledge that
he has acquired in his cups. He Is
a nuisance when harmless and a
menace when he is not. The idea
of asserting that when a man
drinks to excess it is no body's
business but his own is only an im
Ibecile assertion.
When a man takes to more nar
cotic drugs than whiskey everyone
recognizes the right to curtail that
victim’s chance of acquiring the
drug that is slowly killing him.
It may be allowed that wine in
moderation is a fine thing for it cer
tainly is. It may be admitted that
I beer is the most sociable liquor
when the drinking is confined to a
few glasses. That is undoubtedly
10.
But.
the trouble is that so
many men are interested in making
a living out of the liquor industry
that as long as it is tolerated as
such, it is to the interest of that
industry to make as many drunks
or good driking men as possible.
As we see it the main evil is in
the profit system and booze making
is like every other merely a side
line~a particularly depraving and de
grading side line to be sure, but
none the less a side line. If there
was no proofit in the side line, It
would stop tomorrow. If a sanei
social syitem prevailed we would
without this profit system have no
trouble establishing a sober society.
'•'or that reason our efforts should
t be directed against the social
, system that allows profit making,
^tohn D. Rockefeller advocates 2>ro
hitition because it makes the miner
have more punch when usin,j his
pick. But as far as dying in one
jof the industrial hell holes of the
I Rockefeller system in Colorado or
at Rayocne and dying of excess >.t
bocz« '.here is mighty little to
choose.
It is a strong argument that pro
hibition will provide the worker
with clearer head and steadier brain
and hand so that he can realize hts
condition better and understand
the necessity for concerted action.
Anything that does that is worth
promoting even if only as a means
to an end. And though we dont
! believe in these mere reform efforts,
| still if prohibition will enable the
workers to stay together and fight
together more firmly by reason ot
ja better and clearer understanding
! of the situation, we are with It
every time.
No one need pretend that work
ers’ ills are going to end with the
establishment of prohibition. They
are not. There will be strikes and
leek outs and hard fights against
capital for the workers in the dry
as in the wet state. Prohibition is
not a panacea for the social ills
that trouble the workers. It Is ~no
cure for high prices and low wages,
for tenements and slums. It will
not abolish poverty. It In a great
measure will help the workers to
appreciate their poverty stricken
position for they will face the issue
with unbefuddled brain and with
clear and steady nerve.
'The Capitalists advocate prohibi
tion, and advocate It strongly be
cause they feel that they will get
more out of a sober man than s
lrinking man. Experiment and ex
perience has shown that the drink
ing man is not an efficient man. If
that was' all the argument for be
coming an abstainer the workers
might as well stay drinkers. Drink
at least would afford them some
means of forgetting their troubles.
It is like one of those "dull narco
tics numbing pain”; it answers thj
call of reaction after the miserable
drudgery of human existence.
Drink like every other dope wheth
er mental or physical has been one
of the means whereby those who
had, made those who were exploited
by Hum forget their condition.
Poverty, nine times out of ten, is
the cause of drink among the work I
ers--poverty and the fearful condt
lions under which labor toiled.
That is what the workers want to :
aim at—the abolition of the system j
that breeds poverty and necessitates
the workers resorting to dope to
make them forget their fierce con-1
dition.
Anything that will aid in that
work is to be favored. The man
who does not drink is the man who
will be first to discover that there
is something wrong; the drinking j
man is the man who will forget
about it.
And this thing has to begin with
the individual. It must or It will ;
as Cardinal Gibbons said be res- j
ponsible for hypocrisy. The man
who is a slave to the opinions or j
others is little better than the slave
of drink and the hypocrite is al
ways that way.
The workers should not take their
ideas on this head from any but
themselves; but we believe that a
fair and unbiassed consideration
will bring home to them that this
is not a moral question, but a
question of every day tactics—a
question whether or not when re
duced to its simplest terms, the
sober, clear brained man is not like
ly to advance the cause of labor
more than the man who stews his
mind in the fiery fumes of alcohol.
Whether or not that man can be any
use to himself or anyone else who
has only one resort for the troubles
and trials of this world and thai
resort: booze.
(,et us estimare on your Jon Wort
OVERSTOCK till
To the Public:—
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware ana
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased the
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; ■vfce can save you
money. We have proved it oo
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
HOLT’S NEW & 2ND HAND STORE
WATCH LS GROW.
2nd hand Quicksilver pr. lb $1.25
Silver Plate per foot.$1.00
Sewing Machines .. .. $5. to 10.00
Phonographs . . . . $2.50 to $20.00
Stoves, Ranges & Heaters $2.50 to
$36.00.
Mason Jars, per doz..75c.
i Mining Screen 15 and 20c. per foot.
Electric Washing Machine and
j motor.$30.00
13 h. p. Boiler, complete... $35.00
116x20 Tents.$15.00
Furniture, Trunks, Guns, Rubber
Goods.
SAVE 50 % at
HOLT'S CASH STORE.
Tel. Main 86. 411 Front St.
The House that Saves You Money.
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