The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-03-12
THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT
FoR1iDs SALE, MANUFACTURE
OR IMPORTATION OF LIQUOR.
House Committee In Whose Hands Il
is, Is Said to Have Majority
in Its Favor.

Washington, d. c., March 1.-THE
proposed amendment to the Constitu.
ton of the United States which would
forbid the sale, manufacture, trans
portation or importation of intoXicat.
| ing liquors, the resolution for which
was introduced in the senate by Sen.
ator Sheppard, OF Texas, and, in the
house by Representative Hobson, of
Alabama, has reached the stage where
| it is in charge of a subcommittee of
the senate committee on judiciary.
This committee is composed of Sen
ators Chiffon. Fletcher, Shields, Dill
lingham and Borah The way this
committee stands at this writing, a
majority Of the five are in favor of a
report to place the resolution before
the senate. The subcommittee will
start soon to hold hearings and it is
believed generally that the report OF
the full committee will recommend
that the resolution be sent to the
senate for an open vote
1t is this state of affairs which
gives the prohibition leaders in Wash.
ington the confidence they are show
ing. They are predicting the resolu-
ton will be passed at this session of
congress. This also is the predic-
ton of Senator Sheppard and Capt
Hobson.
The amendment, of course, as near
ly every one knows, would not be-
come effective until after it had been
ratified by the legislatures of two
thirds of all the states of the union.
Conservative leaders among the
prohibition forces in Washington say
that the Endorsement of the legisla-
lures of the required two-thirds of the
states will be obtained inside of ten
years; extreme optimists say this ap-
'proval will come in five years and
that within year thereafter the
United States will be dry.
Liquor interests everywhere are
preparing for this titanic struggle.
The Pennsylvania Wholesale Liquor
Dealers and Distillers' association
has just closed a two-days' meeting
at the Bourse in Philadelphia, at
which steps were taken to naturaliZe
100000 aliens in that state who can
not vote, but who are opposed to pro-
hibition. A statement given out at
the close of the meeting said the as.
ISOLATION proposed further TO call up.
on allied trades, including drivers,
glass workers engaged In manufacture.
ing and installing bar fixtures, and
others.
The managers of the prohibition for.
ces have a table classifying the
states as follows:
States already prohibition and sure
to support the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
Kansas. Maine. Mississippi, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
Tennessee and West Virginia y
states.
States where the sentiment is such
that vigorous campaigns will elect Il
majority of the legislature pledged to
vote for the amendment-Alabam
Arkansas. Florida, Idaho, Kentucky,
Michigan. Iowa, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, South Da-
kota, Texas, Washington, Vermont
and Virginia-17 states.
The prohibitionists acknowledge
that they have hard fight on thu,
hands in the remaining twenty-five
states. but they smilingly assert that
they have been getting ready for
years, that they propose to defeat
every political leade" ~no opposes
them and that IL will not be so very
hard after all. considering what the
victory will mean, to carry six states
out of the %. for 80 will make the
reouirpd tWO.thirdS