The Siftings Herald

COMMON SENSE AND LIQUOR.
As a matter of course prohibition was not brought to this country by reformers of the kind one sees pictured in cartoons--individuals wearing tall hats, long coats, lugubrious expressions and big bands of black crepe. Prohibition came because common sense took a hand in the fight against liquor.
The movement for prohibition had its inception with forward looking men and women who realized that the liquor traffic carried with it so many and so great evils that the death of the traffic was necessary for the welfare of the people. These men and women were reformers in a sense, but the kind of reformers that make the world a better place in which to live. They fought an uphill battle for many years and finally won over to their side hosts of men who had had actual experience with liquor -who had drunk it, who had gotten drunk on it and who had stood within touching distance of its horrors. These men, and the stout-hearted "reformers were aided after a time by strong forces in the realms of industry Business executives were convinced of the need of stopping the economic losses that were caused by liquor.-Arkansas Gazette.