to debauch in some shape or form. Labor as a whole prohibition or otherwise. * * * They simply live The assumption of the anti-saloonists to act as elsewhere in this issue from the Labor World, of Pittsburg. In the course of that aricle it is said that to be fettered and shackled because of these few men." of the "infinitesimal minority" who abuse the right to Inferior Workmen. By Insisting on Abstinence Employers Will Get nority would be drunkards under any conditions, patible with the principle of local option, for the aim indulge in alcoholic drink, he says: "This small mi- from exercising a personal inherent right, the exercis- of the problem than the anti-saloonists when speaking of which shows a better understanding of the nature tastes." guardians of the morals of the American workingman most certainly does not want the general community of the latter is to prevent a citizen or several citizens ing of which only concerns his or their own personal "The principle that underlies local option," says the quite correct to say that trade unionism is not com- "local option is, indeed, a workingman's question." long before the eighteenth century. It is, therefore, ized labor has been most desperately fighting since writer, "is exactly the principle against which organ- is indignantly rebuked in the same article, the writer