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“An Islander”

HOllAS JEFFERSON, who wrote the Dec- (ion of Independence, said and wrote, over over, that the wlay to fight drunkenness to discourage the use of \vThiske_v_ by substi f»? f0!‘ 1t °°T11l1a1’11tl\'<'l_v harmless beer and wines. '

the (‘lllﬂ-"Slﬁ-“lll ol ihe ivai", when nianv shad Lobe done quickly, often without i-Q i-ellection, it was ilecided to take steps (lrastit- than those reconrmendetl by Tho- Jefferson.

c its-o of all (ii-inks containing more than alt of one per cent of alcohol was pro- d by the Volstczi(l'/\ct_ And thus the eeiith Amendment to the Constitution

inendnient. Arnd this, according t0 tho akers, \\"rl_s to be _a bonc-rlry country. is |ll(‘ltll'{‘ is tliorcisiilt 01' that planning, ol‘ good intentions. . n re the bootleg \v'hiskej' king reads the lat- lll$l\'(1_\‘ news to his-friend and associate tho lower ‘regions. ' . , . 9 l-‘vnllffalrcixs’ profits run into hundreds of [insa '_\'(‘1-ll';_4ll1(.l that ls‘ the least of it, _(*._\‘£ll!.~‘l\'(l_\i' sold 1S, at least 70 per cent of it, _"_' '“1'*l_l\ ‘gildnny are killed or blinded by lihlii a levwov urs. All that use it are eiied by it, their lives shortened.

e litekilc-st crime, wave that any civilized 11t1a§evei' known is following" prohibition c Liiiterl States. thatjyrisutri‘discpurage crimg has 4,, fl-“Qulballds. 0f new srinqmals- The pris- _ of N t‘ “"&**'.l!i'1**"1r11‘eh ‘prison in the great ,,.,,,?‘W1Y<i_1i. oomipilfiied to house ‘ordi- h , ‘ma s ‘RF he Death House,” for lack

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eakeasies and entrtai mejitao. _ ﬂ,

meri it ilHifa. Butitdoealirfpt ﬁat Flﬁalnff it, particularly in‘ big c, ‘ hopedlﬂll mpribition was

lwCorls tﬂtion, 7 it would l.

, attle creek, Mich, Writes: P: is Riuhmg Thousands of Young People

, _ i _ W$ver Were Worse. v v _ , j _fo'»l;‘liaﬂ=thé People Might Know the Truth.”

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“Old whiskey drinkers," it was‘ sai<l,)“\vill probably get their alcohol sonii-ivlierc. liutat least the corner saloons will not [1111- l1*111‘l1li1l1‘111 jh the path of flip _voun_a'. 'l'he_v will never know the curse of whiskey. _

The fact is that there :ir<- 1i1ol‘e_\\‘l1l>'l<1‘.\’ fmll uin (lrinkcrs under 2o _\‘<‘ars oi‘ :i.4'1' 111 ll“? lilmlml Steites today than there were before l>1'11l11l1'1‘ iioh, 'l‘|~1N 'i"l1\li11.~+ MORE m" 'l‘ll HM.

Boys and girls iii their early teens have been

. dismissed from stilinols". lor ili-iiikiiiigj whiskey:

Nlanyjfathcrs and mothers know in their soi" row what the strange onihrezili’ "l" J1111QV1llC ill" coholic mania has nieanl to the morals of Y111111Q iaeople. v

Mothers and fathers that would hot have dreamed that such a thing eonld be Iiossiblc, know what it is to have youiigl‘ 111011 "ml Vmnl‘ en and boys and girls zietuzilly; ili-unk at then

' parties.

The Constitutional .i'\l‘il‘.‘lllllll(.‘llt and the V01- stead Act interpreting‘ it are ltcalﬂil ‘r19 i1 Wk‘? from one end of the United Slates to the oth- er. _ _ _

. For the first time in the history of this country those considering themselves perfectly

, respectable actually pride themselves on break- . ing the law of the land and violating the Constr _

tution. ~ ~ ,_ _ ' ‘The bootleg criminal (lcals ilircctly with the

hank president, thebig business 1men of all A kinds. The moneyr is paid him by “respectable, j eilvniend for breaking the law. ~ . ' ' " i " wor-fdérfetiimé.sly-pails, Thg “respectable . man” whobribos the law breaker need not be __

surprised if another law breaker hints‘ ‘him 911'!

the head or holds him up in a dark street, or 1n

hishomiep‘ v _A p » ' . _ The-‘holdaupbdlifllﬂn may well say to the “re-

npecbabl‘e‘l‘g~w'bnéaker’-'~: “You think you have a ~ ' law that you domtlike- .1 j j,

» _a-gree with yo ‘Ithink I have a ‘riﬁht to break anbthe lawthut interferes 'w.ith ~-my

plansgasitho ruhibition law interferes. with Th»

amt holding‘ you up and

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’l‘his is not a pleasant picture. Millions of earnest Americans wh-o had hoped that prohibition would put an end to the whisky traffic admit with sorrow that conditions, especially in great cities, are as shown here.

Satan never had a better friend than the bootlegger, corruptcr of public olficials. and responsible for the crime wave.

What can lll€])t3()]}l021_ll(l the law makers DO about it?

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They must ‘do

ficials, policemen, officials of the National Gov- rriiment. _ _

A police commission i_n one of the bigafist American cities saitl: “l here’s no use lymg about it. Three-quarters of the pQllcemen make a great deal more than their salaries ‘by helping bootleggers. _Congr€S5111@11, mayors of cities, traptains of ships, men of_all kinds, from the gutter and from business, interest them- selves in bootlegging. Here and there one goes to jail. For the one that goes to jail a thousand gjo to t'he most fashionable pleasure resorts.’

Hijackers with machine guns prey on the bootleggcrs. '

\\'||.\'|‘ is THE (‘()l'N'l‘R\' GOING T0 no

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Shall the bootlegging, the hijacking, the crime wave, the junevile drinking the defi- once of law continue indefinitely?

Shall bootlegging be established as one of the greatest industries of the United States?

What (‘-\-\' be (lone? What "VUIVP to be done?

The Hearst newlspajoers had for many years, before prohibition came, waged war against whiskey, Year in and‘ year out we published é-fdltﬁrlﬂls denouncing the whiskey traffic, and government partnership with it. We published cartoons Sunday after Sunday showing “Whis- key’s Graveyard,” kwith HonorpHopep Will Power, Happiness buried in it. .

We printed apicture of a poor mother and her children in a poverty-stricken home gather- ed around the coffin of the husband and father. Under ‘that picture we put these. words, “_\\'l|lH__li|<1Y, lriiivrns AILL.” . ~

At that time, following the preaching of Tho- mas Jefferson, we advocated for those that could not entirely abstain, the use of light wine and beer. We urged that whiskey, gin and the other alcoholic poisons be classed with mor-

phine, cocaine opium and’ other drugs. We ‘ ' urged that beer and light wine ‘be clasgedwith.

tobacco, since all three hadbeen and are now

- usettwithout dangerous excess by hundreds of ' ma. 11ers‘ -

Ahelnllfirdhibition came, and, although the

. . paopldhiidtnot been allowed to vote on it, as

eiright. to, do, in any. i planr-bo

‘_i they had. th . iamltlhi

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Iyisited th I] dT . , v _ _ A j - ~ e. ame ere 1g een ears Ago and e s an hree 1 ears Ago and Saw thefHdvoc 1t had playgd Among the People There Too, _ So PleasevTry and Print j

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hoped for good results.

We felt and urged that the experiment 0f

.\Iih'()l.l"l‘|‘) PIRUIIIIKYFIUN with n0 all0W\-‘ ancc whatever for human weakness and the 6S‘- tablished habits of centuries, should have a l“.\ IR TRIAL.

It liklE had the trial. The experiment of total, l

prohibition has lasted more than tenyears- v t .\Nl)'l‘Ill'.\'l'l("l‘l'l{l<1'l‘lill.l.h i||i~. IUuS-LLI‘.

What should be done now? Should we allow-- the nation to driftinto accepting the bootleg system as part of our national life‘!

Shall nation-wide contempt "for law and the; Constitution continue _ _ __

Perfectly sincere friends of real temperance, say: “The experiment _hasn’t lasted long en- oiiah; it wiill work out in the end.” _

Others just as sincere in their desire for tem- perance say: “If you can't stop bootlegginig by spending hundreds of millions, using all the resources of the nation, States and cities, after

ten years of effort’ YUP \\'ll.l, NEVER BE

AHLIC 'l‘() s'r0i' IT." M- What doYUl‘ think the nation should do? Thepeople of this country will, of course, in

the long run, decide every question that comes

before them.

As it stands, we have now a law and a clause in the Constitution treated with contempt by wealth at the top of the social scale and by crime atthe bottom.

Those most determined to maintain prohibi- tion as it is, and those that would contribute most generously to such maintenance, are the bootleggers. -

Millions of sincere prohibitionists, loyally obeying the law themselves, feel that others

should do so, demand that there be, as they gxpj-egg it, “N0 Backwniwl Step."

But have we not taken already Sl'1\'l'1R_-*\T1 .

backlward steps? a . The young are learning to drink whiskey. That is a backward step. ' 'l_‘l_iis country is more lawless than any other civilized country on earth. That is a backward

step. A . For every open saloon that existed in sucli.

great cities at New York and Chicago there are now at least 'l‘\\'0_ “speakeasies,” where the \"ll€St_0f_ whiskey can be bought. _

A fireman was injured in aibumin-‘g-Builqﬁng and as a mere matter of course you read that his coinradesfaskmg for the nearest "speak- easy, get whiskey next door to give to the sui-

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» fering man, , - The people of the United States have got t k

settle this question. Wlhat do you think about it? ’ » Every good American ‘is in favor of temper.- anqe, of course. .-. -, .. i UT;,}§’,,1I,_1§Tf1lggUn},-_D» =. s 99pm? _

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