Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-12-19
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National Constitutional Prohibition

National Cons titutjonal Prohibition
"The following is the amended and
final form of the joint resolution (H.J.
Res. 277) proposing an amendment TO
the constitution of the United States:
Whereas, exact scientific research
mas demonstrated that alcohol is mar
cotc pois IN, destructive and degenera-
ting to the human organism, and that
its distribution as a beverage or con-
tanned in foods lays staggering econ
omic burden upon the shoulders of the
people, lowers to an appalling degree
the average standard of character of
our citizenship, thereby undermining
the public morals and the foundations
of free institutions, produces WIDE
spread crime, pauperism and insanity,
inflIcts disease and untImely death up
on hundreds OF thousands of citizens
and blights with degeneracy their child
rem unborn, Threatening the future in-
tegrity and the very life of the Nation:
Therefore be it
"Section 1. The sale, manufacture
for sale, transportation for sale, i'm
portation for sale of intoxicating liz
uOrs for beverage purposes in the
United States and all territory subject
to the jurisdiction thereof, and exDor-
tation Tor sale thereof, are forever
prohibited. Sec. 2. The Congress, or
the States within their respective jur-
isdictions, shall have power to enforce
this article by all needful legislation.
During the second week in Novem-
Der, 1913, a convention was held in
Columbus, OHIO IL was the first time
that practically all of the nationally
organized uplift forces ever met to-
gether IN the history of this country or
in the history of any country. Those in
attendance at that convention included
official representatives of all the cnur-
ches of all denominations. including the
Mormon, as we'll as the Catholic and
Protestant churches. representatives of
the Sunday schools, the Antl-Saloon
League, the WOman's hristian Tenn
perance Union, the Christian Endeavor
Society. the Epwurth League. and so
forth. | could go and enumerate all OF
them. There were 81 national organl-
cations representing thousands and
thousands of state and local organIza.
tions. They very clearly represented
the conscience of the nation. / do not
say exclusively, but, on the whole,
|, they represented the conscience of the
nation-the religious. moral uplift for
ces of the whole nation-they represent
ed more than a majority of the Amer
can people.
titty.hve per cent of all the Ameri-
t can people today live under prohibition
law: II and oue-half percent of all the
area of continental United States is
under prohibition law, so / do rot
think am wide of the mark when /
say they represented majority of the
I American people.
After due elaboration. the conven-
ton decided unanimously upon two
parts of organic treatment. to go sys.
tematlcally to the American people,
5 to take the truth about alcohol. and to
= insist on national constitutional prohi-
bition, Being an organic question the
people have a right to settle 1t them
selves, 1t is within the power of this
congress to wash its hands of the whole
( question by settling il right.
y Taken from the speech of the Hon.
: Richmond F. Hobson, of Alabama, In
the House of Representatives. May /.
1914.