Local Option Or Prohibition And High License

Editor ARgus: The great hue and cry is "Fut down the Saloons'1. You are told if you don't vote aerainst the saloons you vote for them. We have now a law to control them. If this cannot be enforced how can a law to prohibit? Have prohibition laws destroyed the evils elsewhere? Thereports do not say so. VVhy prohibit the manufacture of beer? Is ït not a legitímate businessV The respectable Germans in Germany say it is not a disgrace to take a glass of beer or wine. So say the English . They have their Bas ale for dinner in respectable families and wrae at suitable times. It is not the use but the abuse, wherein the evil consists. ïou do not kill al1 beasts or birds because some are dangerous. Why shut up the wine press and prevent the making of wiie even in our homes? If it is right to drink a glass of wine or use it in our churches or if it was right to have it at the marriage feast of oíd, who has the right to prohibit the making of it? We are taughtby Holy Writ to be températe in all things. There is excess in eating as well as in driukinsc, and in dressing also. Whereshall we draw the line? Is the land of the free to become the land of the law- law for everything but law not respected or enforced? One clergyman recently said he did not believe in sending missionaries iuto heathen countries, merely to destroy tbeir idols. He believed in giving tbem somethin,' better to worship in the place thereof. In votins; against prohibition we vote in favor of the high license enactment of tlie legislature which controls the sale of intoxicants but allows the right to make wine in our own homes. Tliis law is practical in largecities. Itlessens tha number of saloons and cause} the remaining saloons to look after the secret onesBefore this law is destroyed let a better one be given us in the place of it.