American Agriculturist, August 4,1923 
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“Greatest Good for the Greatest Number” 
(Continued from page 69) 
amendment was simply put through 
without giving the voters a chance to 
say if they wanted it or not. 
I can buy all the liquor I want now, 
and you can too, but it is not fit to 
drink, and it is ruining the health of 
our people that drink it. One of the 
W. C. T. U.’s reason for wanting pro¬ 
hibition was that the workingman was 
spending his money for whisky and 
neglecting his family. And he is still 
doing it, and now has to pay more for 
his whisky, so his family is worse off 
than before. 
And the bootleggers are getting rich 
while Uncle Sam is losing millions in 
revenue. No! He is not losing it, but 
the farmers and workingmen are pay¬ 
ing it instead of the liquor consumers. 
I have bee i in several large cities since 
prohibition has been in effect, and I 
have seen enough to convince me that 
there is no such thing as prohibition. 
There is no doubt in my mind that 
our honorable lawmakers in Washing¬ 
ton are getting their liquor from 
abroad, and as long as they can get it 
they will not bother their brains about 
changing the Eighteenth Amendment; 
but I want to say to the public at large 
that I am in favor of repealing the 
Volstead Act. If it were possible to 
have prohibition that would prohibit 
all, I would be in favor of it. But I 
am not in favor of showing partiality 
to one class.—H. H. L., Pennsylvania. 
OPINION IS CHANGING 
N regard to prohibition, would state 
it seems to be dying out in this sec¬ 
tion, and many farmers who were in 
favor of it two years ago are very 
much against it now. I find by asking 
neighbors that at the very least 60 per 
cent are for a change to the allowing 
of the sale of light wines and beer, but 
do not want saloons as it was before. 
The prohibitionists look to us now a 
great deal like “dogs in the manger,” 
as they do not want it themselves, but 
want laws that deny others the right 
of having it. How anyone can be a 
strict prohibitionist after reading the 
daily papers and seeing what the re¬ 
sults are of this bootleg poison that is 
being sold all over is more than we 
can understand. Our young people 
think it so smart and strictly modern 
now to sneak a drink whenever they 
can, and what is it they get? Poison. 
Why not have decent wine and good, 
well-made beer?—L. W. P., New York. 
CIDER, DANDELIONS, ELDER¬ 
BERRIES 
AM in favor of light wines and beer 
because I think it would stop much 
of the bootlegging if people could get 
a little beer without having to go in 
the night to get it, and there would not 
be so much whisky sold or drunk as 
there is now. It seems as though there 
is more drinking in this town or town¬ 
ship all over than there used to be when 
we had just local option and before the 
Eighteenth Amendment took effect. 
The agricultural papers say that 
farmers are mostly for prohibition, but 
one-half to three-fourths of them have 
a barrel of cider in the cellar that will 
go 15 to 20 per cent .alcohol; and town 
people scour the country for dandelion 
blossoms and elderberries to make wine. 
E. C. M., New York. 
WHAT LOCAL OPTION DID 
AVE been reading the letters in 
your valuable paper for and 
against prohibition, and find the argu¬ 
ments against it rather ridiculous. To 
be sure, we read in the Bible where 
Christ turned water into wine at the 
wedding feast, but I for one am posi¬ 
tive it was not of such a nature that 
the guests were made helpless, or mis¬ 
took some other man’s wife for his own, 
and she did not know the diffei'ence, or 
went home and beat his wife and chil¬ 
dren, continued his spree for a week, 
lost his job, and the town had to take 
care of his family until his wife was 
discharged from the hospital and could 
take in washing to support the family. 
I know of a man who had never 
bought his wife a Christmas gift but 
once in twenty years, and then he got. 
di’unk and lost it before he reached 
home. After his town went dry, she 
received the belated gift, and his chil¬ 
dren—and, of course, he had many— 
were comfortably clothed, a good home, 
and a real Christmas dinner for the 
first time in their lives. 
Did it pay to vote that town dry? 
We all can think of ways we could 
use it. My home-made lotion for 
chapped hands does not keep well with¬ 
out it. I can get a bit of alcohol with 
carbolic acid in it. But oh, how it 
smells. So I’ve found glycerine, rose¬ 
water, and lemon juice does just as well. 
And I must confess an alcohol rub 
gave one a comfy feeling after a bath, 
but it was not really necessary. Should 
I be ill enough to go to a hospital, I 
could have a rub with it at night. 
If thousands of little children whose 
fathers, and mothers too, sometimes, 
cannot get the wretched stuff, can be 
put to bed with their little tummies 
comfortable with a nourishing supper 
inside, should we mourn an empty alco¬ 
hol bottle? If they want to search the 
Scriptures, the American Bible Society 
has copies always on hand. Read 
Proverbs xx, 1; Numbers vi, 3. E. A. 
G. asks if it would not be as nearly 
right to pi'ohibit some kinds of foods 
because some make gluttons of them¬ 
selves, and speaks of the few drunk¬ 
ards we have. He surely never allowed 
his wife to attend any W. C. T. U. 
meetings, where she heard statistics on 
the subject read. If, as he writes, such 
a large majority of our citizens made 
outlaws, many thousand made drug 
fiends, etc. Will we not still have the 
“Survival of the Fittest,” and their 
children’s children be left with a “Good¬ 
ly Heritage”? Has not a person en¬ 
slaved to drink and drugs already lost 
his “Personal Liberty”?—E. K. W., 
Maryland. 
ENFORCE OR REPEAL IT 
OMPLYING with your request that 
all the readers of your paper give 
their views on the prohibition amend¬ 
ment, I venture just a few thoughts. 
Either enforce the Eighteenth Amend¬ 
ment or repeal it. No nation will long 
continue that does not enforce its laws. 
The best way to get rid of a bad law 
is to strictly enforce it. If the people 
do not want it, it will be repealed. 
Alcohol has ruined the peace and 
happiness of thousands of homes in 
our land. Alcohol has been responsible 
for thousands of financial failures in 
our land. Thousands of women and 
children in our land have suffered and 
are suffering to-day for the necessaries 
of life because the money that should 
clothe and feed them is spent for alco¬ 
hol. Where alcohol has been the means 
of preserving one life, it has been the 
means of destroying a thousand. 
Cut it out! Enforce the Eighteenth 
Amendment.—W. F. E., West Virgina. 
NO EFFECT ON GRAIN PRICES 
HEREWITH give my reasons for 
being in favor of prohibition. About 
the prices of farmers’ grains would be 
better—“I am from Missouri.” Grain 
to-day is bringing just as much as it 
ever did unless war made the differ¬ 
ence. I hear a lot about barley would 
be worth more. Let me say that I can 
see no difference in the price of barley 
now and in days when things were 
supposed to be wet. 
But I can see a difference in some 
families of my friends. This personal- 
liberty stuff is all bosh. There has al¬ 
ways been lawbreaking and there will 
always be more or less until the final 
reckoning. We have a law against 
murder, gambling, and other things, 
but read the result in the daily press. 
As long as prohibition of intoxicat¬ 
ing liquor is a law of the land, let every 
true American stand by law and see 
that it is enforced, whether prohibition, 
murder, slavery, gambling, reckless 
driving of automobiles, of which much is 
traceable to the use of liquor. I might 
say that it makes no difference to me 
whether it is wet or dry, and it doesn’t, 
but I am seeking the welfare of gen¬ 
erations yet unborn who may rise and 
call us blessed.—W. W. H., New York. 
P. S.—I notice one writer says: “If 
alcohol is such a terror to mankind, 
why has the Creator made it so plenti¬ 
ful?” How’s this? If Paris green, 
arsenate of lead, and nicotine sulphate 
is good for mankind, and an all-wise 
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plentifully of which they are made, 
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