The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-05-19

pose. By January, 1911, the legisla-
lures Of all the States had acted, and
more than the necessary three-fourths
had sanctioned the amendment. The
drink demon was banished forever
The law became effective on February
II, 1911.
But how was it ever enforced?
Il suppose that from your stand
point the question is natural one.
Remember that all Americans who
did not use or profit by the use OF
liquor were at last thoroughly aroused
and determined to uphold the Govern
ment, which will ever be supreme
when its principles are just. There
were a few cases of open resistance,
quickly suppressed, and numberless
attempts at evasion; but in less than
three years from the passage of the
amendment the liquor traffic was
matter of history"
Is no liquor at all manufactured?
"Only a very limited quantity, for
medicine and the arts, strictly under
Government supervision and control.
The use of alcohol incidentally is
steadily growing less, and in the
march of science will probably cease
altogether" F" -.
rs none smuggled in from abroad?"
Not enoght TO have any effect.
Our customs regulations are very
strict; and, besides, the people, hav-
ing discovered how much better they
get along without the stuff, no longer
demand it. -
Doing away with whisky and beer
has benefited the country, has it,"
The information man paused mo-
ment, as if doubling whether his duty
required him to answer a question SO
absurd; then he replied:
NO; it has transformed the country!
How many policemen had New York
when you left?"
Nearly four thousand
There are five hundred now, al
though the population of the present
city is nearly three times what 1t was
in 1894"
''Do YOU ask me to believe thatY'
Holland S powers of absorption were
RAPIDLY approaching their limit.
Il do. Ny business is to give facts.
The number of law officers all over
the country has been reduced in like
proportion. The opponents OF Pro-
hibition in your day used to be highly
amused at the claim that drink was
responsible for three-fourths of the
crime, but such has proved the case
Not only have the breeding-places OF
criminals vanished, but as so much
capital that formerly was wasted has
been turned into useful channels,
there is more work, and better wages;
the laboring classes are contented,
greater attention is paid 10 education,
and the standard of intelligence and
morals is much higher. The immigra-
ton problem, too, has to great ex-
tent been solved. The lower class OF
Europeans think twice before coming
to a liouorless land, and we get only
the very best, Just enough to KEEP
mace with the country development :
Il presume there is still some crime
and vice."
"Oh. YES. there are sporadic cases
Natural depravity is yet at work, anC
| suppose always will be. Then, too
our population is largely composed Of
the children of rum-consumers. But
wrong-doing has been reduced to
minimum, and as the liquor taln
grows fainter and fainter will become
smaller STILL. ("
"How did the men fare who hat
money in liquor?"
"At first they thought they wer'
rnined as their plants were apparently
valueless; but the boom in all kinds O
business. consequent upon the grea