The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1915-01-18

The states rights fanatics will say 'You must prove to me
that the present system will work. am pessimist
nor am admitting that prohibition will not prohibit when
that the present system does fill the bill prohonsts
sire to filed The liquor either evaded the
statutory laws of the states the officers of the law have failed
to enforce them In either we who advocate states
rights must admit that the states not capable handle the
situation when another state adjoining ships the accused
stuff after laws have been Even the Webb
law which passed prohibit the shipment of
wlskey with certain regulations has apparently
feet And the far reaching decision handed down from Augusta
recently wherein decided the sale of whskey was not
complete until it had been delivered the consgnee has
no Immediate relief Under this decision shipment of whsky
Georgia would be sale against the statutory laws of
Georgia.
bring these facts argue that the present system will not
work.
The fanatic further and says. You prove me
that the system you adovate will work. In this
submit that the liquor traffic national matter and
less state matter than other BUSINESS to-day It's organz
tons national It's operations national basis of sup
ply certain state and sale and distribution in Others makes it
essentially commodity of interstate commerce. which
states have control Congress transfer
Commerce to the individual states Under the pure food
Congress cope successfully with things we eat why not do
the with the things drink Further than this the
National Congress tax the sale of commodity out of
lance if it desires Just did the manufacture of the phos
phorous of making matches in the Phosy Jaw BILL
Again the national government the natural
states found in the forest why not much
important and why be just successfully done
conserve physical found the human body
and mental resources found in the human mind
submit that National Prohibition will work.
The third sally of fanatic right friend is voiced in
these words You must prove further that the system that you
advocate will remedy the evi When liquor prdes it.
self that prohibition does prohibit now confesses that
ampes the rights of states and really conesses the urgent
y He thereby confesses his second breath the deficiency
the principal advocated in his first Under the distribution of
today be the base of the
that be dry With these and other things confronting
friend state rights challenge with the thought that whskey
will be consumed beveridge under National Prohb
on Our friend is the that said years ago
Democracy would make the gulf between the king and the
peasant broader the that said that there
one contnenthe that helped to put chains
nent scientist because he dared that the world
the that said steam mpaccab that electricity
unmanageab that anything that marked the progress man
was dergatory to the individual rights of ask
friend to notice that the who that something
done is constantly being interrupted by doing it.
The last resort that the fanatic states rights takes this
You must that the remedy will not bring about
Under the old county unit plan this would have asked
the proof when advocated prohibition take the
place of local option Why should the National Prohibition
propaganda be much improvement the system as the
system was over the county system! that
at least contend that the remedy would bring about
evils.
Our good is to do the greatest possible good greatest
number of people possible.
The hue cry that the would surrender some
their sovereign rights when they thus surrender this right to regu
late the traffic of whsky least Since Congress destroy
by taxation there will be enlargement of its powers destroy
by giving it prohbve powers Again. since when the states
licenses saloon it curas that its police powers
then when every license there will be no such cur
tament and the police will be greater than before with
less expense.
submit that is contention that set of statesmen
such as those who wrote General Constitution would
any department of the that duty which cannot
perform And since the unable cope with situation
of