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THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1920
ABOARD THE WATER WAGON
Fifty years ago Uncle Sam began
the long, slow task of tapering off.
Today he is apparently firmly seated
on the water-wagon, and the road be
hind him is strewn with broken and
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empty bottles, relics of livelier, if not
more happy, days. To some hundreds
of thousands the prospect is lugubri
ous. To some other hundreds of thou
sands the prospect is bright with nope.
It is a great change, this, from uni
versal humidity ^to continental arid
ity. Aforetime, and as far back as
we can peer into the dawn of history,
man has been accustomed to his drink.
The vikings took deep drafts before
going into battle, and, if they lived,
took deeper drafts on coming out.
Otherwise they drank in Valhalla.
* Now man, unless he has had prevision
to make provision, may drink no more.
Nor may he hope to quaff a cup when
he goes to join his fathers. That
which is forbidden here on earth can
not logically he held out as a reward
in the hereafter. It has been ques
tioned whether the prohibition law
will be innocuous. Prohibition has
been written into the organic law of
the land. Can it be enforced? Daniel
C. Roper, commissioifer of internal
revenue, churchman, and lifelong tee
totaler, answers affirmatively. Said he
in an interview' printed in the New
York Tribune:
“It is my firm belief that this law
can and will be enforced. To my mind
the constitutional amendment and the
enforcement law do not run contrary
to human nature. I do not believe
that ages of habit or heredity have
rooted a necessity for alcoholic drink
in the human constitution. Neither
do I believe that there is in this coun
try such a great mass of inveterate
opposition to prohibition as an en
croachment on the rights of man that
despite all our efforts the law' will be
•ome a dead letter. The human race
has been for centuries the victim of a |
great delusion and a bad habit. The
American part of the race has now
decided to break its bonds and re
form, just as thousands and millions
of men have done for themselves in
these last fifty years. We can and
should rid ourselves of alcohol just as
we do with the narcotics. I know' that
there are millions of people who ener-,
getieally hate prohibition, but I know' j
also that millions of slaves of whisky
welcome prohibition.
“Also I know that the overwhelming j
majority of the American people re
spect the rule of the majority and are
Irmly law-abiding. They will insist
% an the new departure having a fair
trial. If they consider is an experi
ment, they want it at least to be a
thoroughgoing and honest experiment. |
‘The prohibition law will be vio
lated—extensively at first, slightly
later on; but it will, broadly speaking,
be enforced, and will result in a na
tion that knows not alcohol. My own
opinion is that we shall be immeasur- j
ably better off without liquor.
“Ardent prohibitionist that I am,
however, I can say that it is not my
intention to act like a fanatic in en
forcing this law. It amounts to an
•nforced revolution in the habits of
millions of people; it is a sweeping
innovation; it is a new order of soci
ety. People must be educated up to
it, and they must first be made aware
of the fact that the law is no joke—
that it can be enforced and that it is
going to be enforced. They must be
broken in, so to speak.”
Mr. Roper created a federal prohibi
tion division of his bureau to deal with
administration enforcement, and placed
at the head of it John F. Kramer of
Mansfield, Ohio, who is known as the
federal prohibition officer. Like Mr^
Roper, Mr. Kramer is a believer in
prohibition. He likes his job so well
that he almost wonders why he is
drawing pay for working at it. He
sees no insuperable difficulties in en
forcing the law.
“There is no doubt about it,” said
Mr. Kramer when asked if he really
thought the country could be made
bone dry in fact as well as in written
law. “I am not going to fool myself
into believing that we can eliminate
all the secret and private stills in the
country, or keep every farmer from
letting sweet cider turn hard. We
don’t purpose to mhke laughing-stocks
of ourselves or incur the personal
hatred of people everywhere by raid
ing kitchens, sleuthing cellars, smell
ing of chimneys and looking for a still
in every tea-kettle.”
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
If a man is not dead until he stops
kicking, -it is certain that the Alaskans
who have had a touch of Mr. Burle
son’s methods will live forever.—Val
dez Miner.
The bill that is to be introduced by
Senator New giving Alaska a'govern
ment by a resident central committee
sounds good. If the provisions of the
bill will allow the miles of red tape
to be unwound and the government oi
the territory by overlapping bureaus
stopped, it will without a doubt be a
good thing for Alaska—Seward Gate
way.
It. has been a long winter, but it
has been one of the finest winters
our town has known. Because the
snow is here today, the people are
prone to believe that there is lots of
winter ahead of us yet, although such
is not the case. Everybody in our
town knows that they never yet
saw May come with walks and streets
covered with snow or ice^and all also
know that May is only a few days
away, and 01’ Sol is due from now on
to hump himself and force the snow
and ice out of sight, for within a
few days the housewife will be ready
to plant her window and outdoor
boxes, and when she does the snow
must be gone, and it will be. Before
another collection day comes to our
town summer will be here in all its
magnificent glory, so keep up your
courage and let pour optimism and
hopeful nature sprout again, for the
grandest time of the year anywhere
is coming down the trail and only a
few night’s in camp away from our
town.—Fairbanks News-Miner.
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