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_ Conditions Never were Worm I visited th _D e ere, and I Know it is Ruining Lots of Young People B- ek H _ ecause i is rue

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This for Me That the People Might Know theeli?i'iiiIil(i_3`hree ears Ago aim! Saw the Ham” It had Played Am°n3` the Pwple Ther T00- n

THOMAS JEFFERSON, who Wrote t/he Dec-

laration of Independence, said and wrote, oyer

~ and over, that the way to fight drunkenness

was to discourage the use of whiskey, by substi~ tuting for it comparatively harmless beer and light wines.-

In the enthusiasm -of the war, when many things had to be done quickly, often without mature reflection, it was decided to take steps more drastic than those recommended by Tho- mas Jefferson. ’

The use of all drinks containing more than

onehalf of one per cent of -alcohol was _pro- hibited by the Volstead Act, And thus the Eighteenth Amendlment to the Constitution was made, so far as law could m'ake it, a bone- dry amendment. And this, according to the law makers, was to -be a bone-dry country. __

The bootleggers’ profits run into 'hundreds of

millions a year; and that is the least of it.

' The whiskey sold is, at least 70 per cent of it, - RANK PUISQN- Many are killed or blinded by it within a few hours. All th-at use it are weakened by it, t'heir lives shortened. -

The greatest crime wave that any civilized nation has ever known is following prohibition in the United States. _

The law -that was to discourage crime has

created thousands of new criminals. The pris~ ons are fillediwith them( A prison in the great state of New York is comrpelled to house ordi- nary criminals in “the Death House,” for lack

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_The saloon was bad enough. And upon one

thing, the American people are determined, tho siilooii slinll never conio back, ‘

But before prohibition whiskey worked for

9v1]’lN THE SALOON '

Now the newbootleg whiskey is at _work in

the speakeasies and entrtainments.

- It was hoped, when prohibition was made part of the Constitution, that it would mean

at least temperance and safety from whiskey for 'rim YOUNG- PI<:0PLE. I

“Old whiskey drinkers,”_ it was ` said, “will

probably get th-eir alcohol somewhere. But at least the corner saloons will not put temptation in the path of the young. They will _never know the curse of whiskey.”

_The fact is that there are more whiskey and gin drinkers under 20 years of age in the United

States today than there were before prohibi- tl0I1. 'PEN TIMES M()l{_l'I () I" THEM.

_Boys and girls in their early teens have been dismissed from schools for drinking whiskey. Many fathers and mothers know to their sor- 1°0W What the strange outbreak of junevile al-

coholic mania has meant to the morals of young people. -

M0l1hersand fathers that would not have d1`e8~'!D€'d: that such 'a thing could be possible, _ k'“°W' What-.it is to ‘have young men and wom-'

9” “Pd b0yS, Bud girls actually drunk at their parties. ' .-

qt'1`§° C°",Slitvtiqng1,hmencnent and the voi

ea Act Interpreting-it are treated as a jokd - gem one end of'iiis-mined states to the oth-

For thefirst tiiiie of this country _those considering-themseligs perfectly Fespectable actually pride _themselves on break- iggigge law Of the land and-vioiatinsfthe consti-

The bootleg criminal 'deals ii‘ectly`with'the

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Olled that prohibition would put an end to the whisky tralfic dtoivizih sorrow that conditions, especially in great cities, are -as shown here.

_Satan never had a better friend _than the bootlegger, corrupter of

public officials, and respoiwible for the crime wave.

S0M@iaItI<_:`_a(i;i_the people andthe law makers D0 about it? They must do '

the _head or holds him up in a dark street, or in selves in bootlegging. Here and there one goes his ome. ‘ ‘

_ _ to jail. For the one_t`hat goes to jail ‘a thousaiid _The .h0ld_up man may wen Say to t_he...,.e_ go to the most fashionab e pleasure resorts.

spectable law breaker”: “You think you have a Hijackers with machine guns prey on the right to _break one law that you don’t like. I bootleggers.

agree with you. Ithink I have a right to' break another law that interferes with my WHAT IS THE COUNTRY GOING To D0

ABOUT IT?

plans, as the prohibition law interferes with

_Shall the bootlegging, the -hijacking, the

yolprs. Th'at’s whyl am holding you up and

ta mg your fn°_ney` _ crime wave, the junevile drinking' the defi- - ’1;ootl<ig_?_rimtinals dare organized in bands, ance of law continue indefinitely? ~ ma ing ig to mur er, bribing prohibition of- Shall home, . - i . . . _ ._ _ . gging be established as one of f.l,f:,§,l,?,’nI;f)llcemen’ Officials of the Natlonal Gov' the greatest industries of the United States?

What f-‘AN be done? What OUGHT to - be

done? _ Y

A police commission in one of the biggest

American cities said: “There’s no use lyingi _ about it. Tliree-quartei"s of the policemen

make a great deal more than th ' al ` ‘

__ eir s aries by helping bootleggers. Congressmen, mayors of ` ci 1

es, captains of ships, men of all kinds, from

the gutter and from business, interest them-

The Hearst newspapers had for many years,

before prohibition came, waged war against whiskey, Year in and year out we published editorials denouncing the whiskey traffic, and government partnership with it. We published

c---Trust the l’eople--- Premier, Stewa_rt’s

_Policy

-In Inaugurating His Policy of Improved Temperance, Premier .

Stewart puts His Trust in the People. He Does Not Believe that it is Necessary to Place the People in Seolusion to Give Them Self-Control.. Train the Young, Trust the Old, Know- ledge is Strength' is the Foundation of True Democracy, and

, that is the Liberal-Conservative Policy on the Liquor Ques-

tion. `

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WHAT IMPROVED TEMPERANCE MEANS

_ inits good for a specified quantity of liqi br I

2-No permit shall be issued to anyone under twenty one years of

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_1-The Teinpeirance Cpmmission s_h`all be empowered to issue per- Y l

3,-Regulations shall be rigorously enforced to prevent fraud and

' misrepresentation in the use of permits. ' A ' i "

-Permitsshall n-ot be transferable, and sl'al1~b`e liable to be can~ _ celled should it be proven that the grantee has been guilty of drunkenness, neglect of wife and family, or has become by habit

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No additional vendorship to those already in existence shall be made by the Temperance Commission. Any Incorporated Town, d€S11_'111s‘ a Vendor shall proceed by way of petition to the Gover- - n_or-in-Council which, if the petition be considered representa- - tive; shall order a plebiscite of the area to taken, and shall ` _be guided by a maj irity vote therein on the subject. _

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cartoons Sunday after Sunday showing “Whis- key’s Graveyard,” with Honor, Hope, Will Power, Happiness buried in it.

We printed a picture 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: “WHIS'KEY, THAT’S ALL.”

At that time, following the preaching of 'Pho-

mas Jefferson, .we advocat`ed_ 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 classed with tobacco, since all three had been and are now used without dangerous excess by hundreds- of millions. _ '

'1‘hen_ prohibition came, and, although the

people had not been allowed to vote on it, as they had the right to do, in any plan to change long established nationwide habits, we hoped for good results. .

‘ We felt and urged that the ‘experiment of ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION with no allow. ance whatever for human weakness and the ces~ tablished habits of centuries,'s'hould 'have a FAIR TRIAL. - 1

It has had the trial. The experiment of total

prohibition has lasted more than ten years.

What should be done now? Should we allow

the nation to drift into accepting the bootleg system as part of our national life?

Shall nationwvide contempt for law and the

Constitution continue

'Perfectly sincere friends of real temperance

say: “The experiment hasn t lasted long en- ough; it will work out in the end.”

A Others just as sincere in their desire f_or tem- perance say: “If you can’t stop bootlegging _by spending hundreds of millions, usin_g_ all the resources of the nation, States and cities, after ten yea,-B of effort, You WILL Navi-in im ABLE TO STOP IT.” -

'What doY0U think the nation should do? » The people 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 at thebottom.

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 prdhibitionists, loyally

obeying the law themselves, feel that others should do so, demand that there be, as they, express it, “No Backward Step.”

But have we not taken already SEVERAL

backward steps? ’

Theyoung are learning to drink whiskey.

That is a backward step. -

This country is.more lawless than any other

civilized country on earth. That is a backward step. For every open saloon that existed in such

great cities as New York and Chicago there are now at léast TWO “speakeasies,” where the vilest of whiskey can be bought. - A fireman was injured in a burning building

and as a mere matter of course youread that his comrades, “asking for the nearest speak- easy,” get whiskey next door. to give to the sub fering man. ‘ - ` ’ . .The people of the United States have _ got to settle this question, _ ’ What do you think about it? Every-good American is in favor of temper.;

ance, of course. I “

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