And he does not once realize that he has =joined forces with those who are conspiring against his highest interests=. He helps to pass a law that takes away his neighbor's rights and privileges, and does not dream that in so doing he is taking away his own rights and constitutional guaranties, and as surely undermining the fabric of our free institutions and thereby hastening national decay and national ruin. A Dangerous Combination Prohibitionists, once they are seated upon the throne of civil power, do not intend to stop at the passage of laws prohibiting the liquor traffic. As has already been stated, they are fully as interested in securing compulsory Sabbath observance laws, and in fact, as stated at the [1]Inter-Church Conference in New York City in 1905, "to secure a larger combined influence for the churches of Christ in =all matters= affecting the =moral= and =social= conditions of the people, so as to promote the application of the law of Christ =in every relation of human life=." This, indeed, means a wide range of activities, and the individual citizen may well enquire, and with apprehension, as to just how far this =combined influence= is to go in its invasion of "=every relation of human life=." If it actually means what it says, and proposes to invade "every relation of human life" with a string of laws and regulations as complex and as multitudinous as the relations of human lives, the student of political government, if not the citizen, may ask of this gigantic combination of the so-called moral forces of the country: =what will be the ultimatum? Where will it all end? What is to become of the unit of citizenship?= "Straws show which way the wind is blowing," is an old saying. In this connection, the following article--a portion of an editorial--that appeared in the =Sacramento (Cal.) Bee=, Oct. 7, 1915, is both interesting and significant: As a further example of the intolerant, domineering and narrow-minded tendencies of the prohibitionists, witness this communication recently published by the New York Evening Sun, signed "Herman Trent, of the Anti-Saloon League," and dated at Englewood, New Jersey: "Speaking now in my personal capacity, and not as a member of the Anti-Saloon League, I will say I regard the anti-liquor crusade =as merely the beginning of a much larger movement=--a movement that will have as its watchword 'Efficiency in Government.' "If I had my way I would not only close up the saloons and the race-tracks. I would close all tobacco shops, confectionery stores, delicatessen shops and other places where gastronomic deviltries are purveyed--all low theatres and bathing beaches.