“Can't make Men Sober by Law."
Much is said alxmt the impossibility of making men sol>er by law, and of the impropriety of attempting it. This ku.d of argument is supposed to have much force. But we submit that it is exactly the wrong way of putting the case. It is not a question of making men sober by law , but of making them drunkards by law ; and that is a very different proposition. Men are solier;
they are i>orn sob r. Kxrept those who inherit a taste for strong drink from drunken parents, they all incline to temperance. It takes the tempter and the dram-shop to make them drunkards. Without the dram-shop there would l»e few drunkards. It is the drunkardmaker. When it is established by law, then it is the making of people drunkards by law* that is to i»e considered and not the making of mt-n solier by law. Pittiburq ( hrjxtian Advocate.
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White Ribbon, Volume 9, Issue 97, 1 June 1903, Page 10
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