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American people at heart are fair, at heart are honest seekers after truth and ultimately will have the truth in this, as in other matters. Misrepresentation and fraud will not kill the Prohibition movement.The Prohibition movement cannot be killed by violent opposition. It has as little today to fear from the campaign of “meat-axes and pitchforks” as it had in the old time when Senator Foraker first enunciated that policy. The most extreme violence of opposition is rather to be welcomed than tobe feared. In discussion and agitation, our cause is strong.The cause is in danger only along the line of concessions. Just as it was in the eighties, when the Prohibition movement grew strong, so we find it again today. Tin* liquor traffic is willing to grant almost anything. The saloon-fed politician is in haste to find what the Prohibitionist wants and give him pretty nearly what he wants. Just as in the eighties we had increase of license fees, additional stringency ofwider extension of local option privileges and the submission of Prohibition amendments in state after state, so we have it again today. If the Prohibitionist can be made to forget the main point at issue, if he can be made to content himself, even for a season, with local option victories, with ostensible improvements of the saloon and with a chance to fight a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose battle in this or that state, over the submission of Prohibition to a popular vote —if this can be brought to pass, then the Prohibition movement can be checked.Upon the other hand, if the Prohibitionist will stand fast by his contention, will perpetually insist upon, reiterate and force to the front the idea of absolute, national Prohibition, if he will resolutely turn away from every sidetrack and ignore every subsidiary issue, there is no possibility of stopping the Prohibition movement and no danger regarding the success of the Prohibition reform.
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Chicago National Prohibitionist
Chicago, Illinois, US
Thu, Mar 12, 1908
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