beside the plates on the table. For him she had knitted a pair of gray
stockings with green rings around them. They were also shown as
evidence at the inquest!

It is often claimed that prohibition will produce a lot of sneaking
drunkards, but, of course, this man had done his drinking under
license, and was of the open and above-board type of drinker. There
was nothing underhand or sneaking about him. He drank openly, and when
he went home, and his wife asked him why he had stayed away so long, he
killed her--not in any underhand or sneaking way. Not at all. Right
in the presence of the four little children who had been watching for
him all morning at the window, he killed her. When he came to himself,
he remembered nothing about it, he said, and those who knew him
believed him. A blind pig could not have done much worse for that
family! Now, could it?

Years after, when the eldest girl had grown to be a woman, she took
sick with typhoid fever and the doctor told her she would die, and she
turned her face to the wall and said: "I am glad." A friend who stood
beside her bed spoke of heaven and the blessed rest that there remains,
and the joy of the life everlasting. The girl roused herself and said,
bitterly: "I ask only one thing of heaven and that is, that I may
forget the look in my mother's face when she saw he intended to kill
her. I do not want to live again. I only want to forget!" The
respectability of the house and the legality of the sale did not seem
to be any help to her.

But there are people who cry out against prohibition that you cannot
make men moral, or sober, by law. But that is exactly what you can do.
The greatest value a law has is its moral value. It is the silent
pressure of the law on public opinion which gives it its greatest
value. The punishment for the infringement of the law is not its only
way of impressing itself on the people. It is the moral impact of a
law that changes public sentiment, and to say that you cannot make men
sober by law is as foolish as to say you cannot keep cattle from
destroying the wheat by building a fence between them and it, or to
claim you cannot make a crooked twig grow straight by tying it
straight. Humanity can do anything it wants to do. There is no limit
to human achievement. Whoever declares that things cannot be done
which are for the betterment of the race, insults the Creator of us
all, who is not willing that any should perish, b