The Independent . onlyof the rights of Americans to go and comeabout their proper business by way of thesea, but also of something much deeper,much more fundamental than that. I amthinking of those rights of humanity with-out which there is no civilization. My theme is of those great principles ofcompassion and of protection which man-kind has sought to throw about humanlives, the lives of non-combatants, the livesof men who are peacefully at work keep-ing the industrial processes of the worldquick and vital, the lives of women andchildren and of those who supply the laborwhich ministers to th


The Independent . onlyof the rights of Americans to go and comeabout their proper business by way of thesea, but also of something much deeper,much more fundamental than that. I amthinking of those rights of humanity with-out which there is no civilization. My theme is of those great principles ofcompassion and of protection which man-kind has sought to throw about humanlives, the lives of non-combatants, the livesof men who are peacefully at work keep-ing the industrial processes of the worldquick and vital, the lives of women andchildren and of those who supply the laborwhich ministers to their sustenance. We are speaking of no selfish materialrights, but of rights which our hearts sup-port and whose foundation is that righteouspassion for justice upon which all law, allstructures alike of family, of state, and ofmankind, must rest, as upon the ultimatebase of our existence and our liberty. Icannot imagine any man with Americanprinciples at his heart hesitating to de-ft nd these things. ..--?? .. ^m ??- if. *e0% Drcicn /or The Independent by W. C. Morris ^Ms^Ml^crC:::. THE GREAT SPRING DRIVE ??. - ft -??? *? - V--- i .? ? •? >-vl :$&?&= A K£^^£^^?Sk PROHIBITION: WHEN AND WHY BY ROLLIN 0. EVERHART WHEN a reform has proceededfor twenty years by the ex-perimental method, has takeneverything from small villagesto entire states and blocks of statesinto its laboratory and tested on then,the workings of its particular socialspecific, all with one consistent seriesof results, the worth of that specificmay be said to be established. There arenow twenty-five states which haveadopted statewide prohibition. Three ofthese were achieved by 1890. The othertwenty-two were won in the last tenyears, and every one of the twenty-twoadopted some form of optional local-prohibition first. They experimentedand were convinced. The advancingprohibition battle-line has grown domi-nant thru its ability to recruit itsenemies. Newspaper editors, scatteredfrom Seattle, W


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