“SNEAKS AND HYPOCRITES.”

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1062, 14 July 1910, Page 21

“SNEAKS AND HYPOCRITES.”

Local option and prohibition do not make for temperance, is the opinion of the ‘‘Johnson Democrat,” an Illinois paper. Each may close the I:.censed saloon, but immediately they accomplish that they make sneaks and hypocrites of men and woman, and pave the way for scalawags to deal out deadly poison to thirsting humanity. This is the history of local option and prohibition- They are alike in their effects. Instead of those who w.U drink buying and consuming the stocks of the licensed and regulated saloon, they become patrons of the out-laws and consumers of stuff so vile that it would consume the rust on a rod of iron. It is not beer or whisky that they get. It is the rankest kind of poison. It makes men mad. It makes veritable , demons of them. It is stuff so foul that it is unfit even to feed to a sewer.