Inasmuch by Word and Way

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 15, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 29.

Inasmuch.

By Word and Way

BREWERS, saloon-keepers, together with all the agents and advocates of the rum traffic, are unanimous in the assertion that "Prohibition does not prohibit." They ought to know. But inasmuch as Prohibition does not prohibit, why should they bother about it? Why not let the temperance fanatics go their way and do their do? What earthly use is there for them to fight Prohibition, a thing that has in it no harm to them? Why organize, hire lawyers, and spend large sums of money to defeat the enactment of Prohibition laws when the laws can not be enforced? Why did the brewers pull up stakes and leave Kansas? Why are the saloons quitting business in the towns and counties in Missouri where local option has carried?

Inasmuch as Prohibition does not prohibit, it seems so strange that the liquor interests should hate Prohibition so cordially, fear it so tremblingly, and fight it so desperately. —Word and Way.