The Glenwood post., 1916-01-22

The genuine Prohibitionists are going
: to fight for it. A majority vote will
pass it through the national legislature.
No president will dare to veto it. If
the honest friends of Prohibition viii
get behind this legislation it can be
enacted into law ere the present con-
gress adjourns. (Applause).
"This bill is the simplest way, and
the quickest remedy. If it were the
law there would not be, from one end
! of the country to the other, gallon
of intoxicating loiuuqr manufactured
But if, for the sake of argument, there
was one gallon manufactured, the man
who manufactured it would have to
pay the government $1,000, and the
man who sells it would have to pay the
government another $1,000. No man
could afford to manufacture, and 20
man could afford to sell alcoholic
liquors under these penalties. They
are prohibitive. If either the manufac-
turer or the seller failed to pay the
tax he would be guilty of felony, and
punished by fine and imprisonment.
All the power of the government would
be invoked to this end, and the enforce
ment of the law would abolish, for all
| time, within the confines of our coun-
try, the manufacture, and the sale, aud
the importation of alcoholic liquors.
"'What remedy! Can anyone pro
pose better solution! Is it not sim
pie? Yes. Is it not honest? Yes Is
it not quick? Yes Is it not consti-
tutional? Yes. Then why not be for
it? Why waste time going around in
a circle talking local option while a few
of its advocates capitalize it for their
personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT? Why waste
time wandering in the wilderness, like
the children of ancient Isreal, hoping
that some day, in the next century, the
light if common sense will dawn upon
the old political parties, and that then,
and not till then, will they have the
courage to give you constitutional
amendment?
Do you not know it follows like the
night the day that if no intoxicating
liquors are manufactured none will be
sold? If none were sold none would
be drunk. If none were drunk the evils
for which intoxicants are responsible
would be things of the past. So l say
to you, if you want to stop the woes
and the wants; the cries and the crimes;
the fears and the tears; the trials and
the troubles and the mseries and the
inhumanities that follow fast upon
each other the indulgence in intoxicat-
ing liquors, you must stop the manufac-
ture; and the only way to do that is
by tax so high as to be effectually
prohibitive.
care you really for Prohibition
Then here is the remedy. Do you want
to abolish the manufacture of intoxi-
eating liquors? Then here is the solu-
tion. Do you want to win? Then stand
for this law-so simple, so honest, and
so speedy. Put this measure on the
statute books and / tell you that the
sale of alcoholic liquor will be thing
of the past; that the struggle of the
brave men, and the heroic women, who,
in season and out of season, have bat
tied for Prohibition, will be won; and
under the home of the Union sky there
will not be drunken man, or a drunk
en- woman, in all the limits of our glo.-
ious country. (Applause).
"You know what to do. 1t seems to
me our duty is plain. The dictates of
our hearts must now prompt our future
action. Now is the time to start right.
So, here, today, ask you to declare IA
favor of this legislation, that will for.
ever abolish the manufacture, and the
sale, and the importation of intoxicat-
ing liquors; and to this consumation,
come the support of all political parties,
and the cooperation of the reform
forces in America, regardless of the past,
but with an eye single to success, and
with a hope fathered by the determina-
tion that there shall be no retreat, no
| compromise, until we reach the end Of
the road, and the gladsomc voices Of
our country saved tell us the victory
for humanity has been at last accom-.
| plisbpl - iADnlause)