The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-05
WOULD PROHIBIT
MAKING ALCOHOL
Action Declared Legal by
Georgia Supreme Court
Encourages "Drys'
JONATHAN WINFIELD.

advocates of the bill introduced in the
house of representatives by Robert l.
Lovely of Texas, to amend the statute
under which the commissioner of the
internal revenue, through collectors
of internal revenue, issues special Ii
censes for the wholesale and retail
sale of liquors. The Lively bill,
which is now before the ways and
means committee. is Endorsed by the
temperance people throughout the I'm
tied States, and during the past few
months, members of congress have
received thousands of letters and petit
tons from temperance societies in ev-
cry part of the union. urging the pas
sage of the bill, which, they assert,
will solve the temperance question.
For many years advocates of prohi-
bition have had their efforts thwarted
by existing laws of the government
Many states have prohibition laws;
some applying to counties. and others
known as local option. But in no
state has a prohibition law been uni
formly successful, because of the fact
that the federal government, through
collector of internal revenue, will
issue a federal permit to sell liquor
anywhere. The records show in
states where prohibition prevails the
arrest of many offenders, but the Of
tenders, because of the possession of
federal license, manage to escape
Imprisonment by paying a small fine.
The Lively bill would. it is believed.
effectually put n stop to "bootlegging"
blind tigers" "speak-easies" and
"cozy corners"
In Federal Courts.
A man who takes the risk of SELL
ing liquor in forbidden territory with
out a federal permit, if caught, would
be tried in the federal court, instead
of in the state or local courts. No man
who violates the prohibition law of
his community would care to run the
| risk of mixing up with the federal au-
thorities, for he knows conviction
in the federal court for selling without
Uncle Sans o. X. means heavy fine
confiscation Of his liquor stock and i'm
prisonment.
| Representative Lively was elected
to All the uneXpired term of Repre-
sentative Gordon Russell, who was
appointed federal judge last sum-
mer by President Taft. Mr.. Lively
has taken no particular part in de-
bates in the house. but has made a
record for committee work and for
attending to the business of his con-
stituents. He has pleasing person
atty, is well read and possesses a
large fund of valuable information,
which he ungrudgingly gives his col
leagues when called upon. While he
may not seen the placing OF his bill
on the statute books at this session
there is every reason to believe he
will read it in the law before the ex-
piration of the next congress, al
though its enactment may reduce re.
ceipts from internal revenue taxation.
But as the bill is the public solution
Of the temperance question which
has agitated the country for more
than half a century. the demand for
its passage by the temperance people
may not go UNDECIDED.
For Merchant Marine.
There is one sure way of building
up our merchant marine and restoring
the United States to the commercial
position it held before the civil war
when we had almost the bulk of the
shipping of the world" said Repre-
sentative Frank Clark of Florida, one
: Of the Democratic leaders of the
house. THE way to bring about this
much desired result" said Mr. Clark
lis to amend our navigation laws SC
as to allow American register to all
: ships owned by American citizens
: and corporations, no matter where
such ships were constructed. I dc
not concur in the statement that Am
erican ship builders cannot compete
with foreign ship builders; l regard
such assertions as pure subterfuga
The day has long since passed when
foreign manufacturers can turn out
manufactured articles superior to
ours. This is demonstrated in our
consular reports, which show that the
American manufacturers successfully
compete in the markets of the world
And what / do not quite understand
is this, that an American citizen can
purchase abroad many articles oil
American manufacture five to fifteer
per cent cheaper than he can at home
There is no reason to doubt that this
same condition can be found in the
ship building industry. The day that
American registry is granted to the
foreign built ships, all owned and
managed by American citizens, from
that day will begin a new life in Am
erican merchant marine. and it will
be but a few short years when Am.
erica will again be mistress Of the
seas"
J The Case Of Langley.
J 1t is an old saying in Washington
that a man who really possesses
ability makes great mistake by &C
lcepting employment in the executive