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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
_ of other room. A
_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 `
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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
age. _ ‘iiiihw
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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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, and repute, an idler or profligate person.  9 '
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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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