The Menace of Prohibition by Lulu Wightman

Prohibitionists, once they are seated upon the throne of civil power, do not intend to stop at the passage of laws prohibiting the liquor traffic. As has already been stated, they are fully as interested in securing compulsory Sabbath observance laws, and in fact, as stated at the [1]Inter-Church Conference in New York City in 1905, "to secure a larger combined influence for the churches of Christ in = all matters = affecting the = moral = and = social = conditions of the people, so as to promote the application of the law of Christ = in every relation of human life = ." This, indeed, means a wide range of activities, and the individual citizen may well enquire, and with apprehension, as to just how far this = combined influence = is to go in its invasion of " = every relation of human life = ." If it actually means what it says, and proposes to invade "every relation of human life" with a string of laws and regulations as complex and as multitudinous as the relations of human lives, the student of political government, if not the citizen, may ask of this gigantic combination of the so-called moral forces of the country: = what will be the ultimatum? Where will it all end? What is to become of the unit of citizenship? =

"Straws show which way the wind is blowing," is an old saying. In this connection, the following article -- a portion of an editorial -- that appeared in the = Sacramento (Cal.) Bee = , Oct. 7, 1915, is both interesting and significant: