KMl’LOYM EXTFEATUKE
This Phase of the Liquor Problem
Discussed by W.F. Pearson
of Pleasant Plains.
To The Newark Journal:
Well, Uncle John, if 1 confine
this article to replying to yours in
a recent issue of The Journal I
have but little to do, as your mat
ter of fact substance is indeed
very scarce. You admit that 1
wrote some very wise things in
my former article. 1 thank you
for the compliment. Now the on
ly plea you make for the justifica
tion of the manufacture and sale
of alcoholic beverages is that it
affords employment to thousands
of people. Well if there is any
logic in that argument, and if we
are to view matters from a mater
ial standpoint, we can, with the
•same propriety, contend that its
no wrong to murder each other,
for that would furnish emplymont
for thousands of undertakers, for
we would have to have coffin-mak
ers, shroud-makers and grave-dig
gers. And under this lawless en
terprise, we would soon find our
selves facing a financial trust equal
to the present whiskey trust,which
is captallized at about four hun
dred and fifty million dollars.
Now this enterprise, as an em
■ployment feature, is the only
point you have made any effort tc
establish, but on this you are very
inconsistent, for one of the promi
nent features of your last article
was your statement that alcohol,
the product of this great enter
prl^e, If let alone, is perfectly
harmless. To this statement we
will all agree. Now you say that
in its abuse comes the harm.
But, my dear uncle, can you
tell where its benefits cease, ant
its abuses begin? Now it is admit
ted that the barm is generated by
the user, and to allow the manu
factured material to remain in it
harmess condition, your people,
who find employment in the man
ufacture, sale, etc., would have t(
go out of business. So you set
your inconsistency diminises al
the force of .vour argument. 1 h<
eniy plea you can possibly make
to get out of tile trap you hav*
gotten yourself into, is to contenc
for temperate drinking. But you
can see at once that it will give
you no relief, for if we had n<
temperate drinkers we would have
uo drunkards. I am forced to con
elude that drunkenness is the ham
you confess, when you say that i
alcohol is let alone it is harmless
But now where does drunkennes
begin' If one dram makes a mai
drunk, then he is one of the abu
aors; if two drams make a mai
drunk, then one will will mak
him half drunk, and so on. 8c
unless you are very exceedingl.
wise, you will likely have seriou
trouble in establishing the line bt
tween the benefits of the articl
and its abuses. If we were t
view the matter from your stanc
point, we would be consistei:
enough to contend that, in&smuc
as the employment of thousand
of people depending upon the bu>
loess of making and selling alec
hoi. the more of it used the bettt
it, is for the employed.
Again, you agree with me tin
the people who do not want i
have yellow fever have a right i
establish strong lines of quarai
tine. Now my friend it would I
just as logical for those who do m
want drunkenness to vote out <
establish lines of resistance again
the harmful influence. lo agn
that one is right is to endorse tl
other. The principal is exact
the same. Now in regard to tl
evils incident to the influence
alcohol, you are a splendid wi
ness, and make a good coufessio
though in the classification you <
not place it in the right order. I
think if you had been frank you
would have placed it in the class
of the highest evil. But any way
you confess that alcohol, bigotry,
fanaticism and misguided zeal
have all been great evils. To this
I will agree, and 1 think they
make very congenial traveling
companions. Let’s see.
Alcohol—Manufactured anti sold
for love of money.
Bigotry and Fanaticism—A spir- i
it in Satan when he stepped up to
Uncle Sana and said, “The people
are about to run me out of the
continent because of my debased
character, but if you will put a
respectable robe on me, 1 will di- j
vide the spoils with you. We will j
make the people pay just any
price for our product and if
will protect me I will give
just any part of the profits
want.”
Misguided Zeal—Selling whis
key on Sunday, running blind ti
gers, boot legging whiskey, sell
ing to minors, illicit distilling,
contributing large sums of money
to political campaigns, using nine
million dollars to keep from being
voted out of Texas last election, a
constant cry for unlimited person
al liberty; these are my definitions
of the terms employed by my Un
.vou
you
you
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cle .Joint in his article of Novem
ber 17.
Now in conclusion I will say
that inasmuch as you are so anx
ious that l should cease my cam
paign against alcohol, and go
along about my insurance busi
ness, I will oblige you for the
present, but in a general way 1
have hardly begun, and in some
succeeding article, 1 will tell you
of the states which went prohi
prior to 1860.
'You contend that you have stir
red up the prohi camp from rib
pole to foundation. This reminds
me of the incident of the fly, who
once upon a time, when the weath
er was very dry and the road very
dusty, perched himself upon the
axle of a rapidly driven buggy,
and, looking out over his spec
tacle, with all the dignity of his
Hyship, exclaimed, ‘'My 1 My!
What a dust 1 do raise!"
Now Uncle .John if you were a
young man 1 would apply this to
your condition.
F. W. Pearson.
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