WHAT EVERY MAN SAID.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 248, 18 February 1916, Page 15

WHAT EVERY MAN SAID.

A group of men casually came together at a dinner party the other tvening, and one happened to look iver the table which the women had just left, and commented on the little llcohol that had been consumed. And here is w hat the men said: — ■ The first was a business man of Urge interest: “I would not think of rotiriK for State Prohibition, but let National Prohibition come up, and it tv ill have my vote in a minute. Drinking iias become an economic issue, hnd I am willing to give up my fhisky and soda for the good of the any." The second was a large employer of men, some 1800: “1 am ready for National Prohibition. Up to this time it has seemed a far-away ideal to hie. Now 1 see it as a purely efficient measure.” The third was a clear-seeing Irishman: “Alcohol has been the curse of my people. I have stopped it after |o years of occasional drinking, and how my vote is ready for National Prohibition.” “Go ahead,” said the fourth man r- a railroad official of high standing--FT am ready for it personally, and so tire all the officials on our road.” A physician was the fifth: “Midiline can do without it. Science was figainst it. The old idea of alcohol, 11s a food is exploded. lam ready 'with my vote for National Prohibition.” It was a club man who spoke next: “I see drinking among the caddies at our club, and our caddy master sill > with it. lam ready to give up my rocktail and vote against the whol< susiness.” And last was a wholesale dealer in iquor, who started the talk, and who finished with this significant statement: “You arc* right. We are seeing the writing on the wall. 1 said at a meeting of our wholesale liquor dealers the other evening that we did not have five years of life ahead of us. Strange as it may seem to you, 1 would vote for National Prohibition. It is for the best all round.” Not a dissenting voice,—“Lady’s Home Journal,”