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WE ARE NOT A NATION OF NINNIES A bill to prevent trau-nii---ion by mail or wire of any record of bet Hag od F Ms been introduced in tin- Initeil States Senate. Such a law would be offeastve and an insult to American manli od. Pi-oliibitiou already has eaal soeh asperataa, for. in the Usl anal.VMs. p: ohibiti.ei laws are a false announcement i ; -; 1 1 the men of America lack the elf restraint and the intellectual virility to be their own guardians anil, like little children, mii-t 1,.- kepi in h-nding sir lags. If is only the well-known eonlit ions by which prohibition InU come to pn*s that remove the degrading reproach, the citizens of the Halted s:ates having pronounced for prohibition with a view to the exigencies of be war which, at the time, did not promise i speedy victory and demanded that every sacrifice should be made. The bill in qoeetfeo, however, cannot be justified on any such grounds. It P a barefaced attempt to control th.- personal rights, discretloa and habits .,f men by act of legislature, braadlag them as idiots or little children who must b- kept under restraint . It is no answer to say that money is leal in gambtiag. If oae has not the mental strength to keep away from gambling or to hold i! within his means, ho is in the minority. Bal no imputation must be cast upon American men for the benefit of persons who are incapable of self -restraint . We are not a nation of ninni. s. and are ahaoM Bet be stigmatized as such by Congress. — Cincinnati En-iptirer. e
