The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-08
The People Voted To Dry
Up Michigan-We Cannot
Go Behind That Verdict!

cal seientihe or ssersnentai purposes.
Amendment 70 Article XVI OF the Constitution
by adding thereto a section 70 be known as
Section II. providing for prohibition IN the
state forever % the manufacture. sale. heeping
for sale, giving away. bartering or furnishing or
any vlnous, r1ut. brewed iermented, spirt1o1s
or intoxicating liquors. except FOR medicinal
mechanical. chemical scientific or sacramenal
purposes.
section -. The man pfacture sale keerinE
fes aala- giving away. oarter.ng ~ f9f Its
nous or Intoxicating bQnors sNcept toI rofe.
nal cRemgsl ses , sSsrsHs r1Ss E n
the state forever The lesisiatars. shan p law
Tor medicinal rarehanicai. chemical seifnt.ae
and sacramental purposes
II will be noted that the amendment
goes so far as to define exactly what the
legislature shall do.
The adoption of the amendment would
seem to have settled the issue of Just
how far the legislature should go and just
how far the legislature should NOT go in
meddling with the majority sentiment.
1t is not an easy matter, therefore. 70
understand the position at this time Of
our Anti-Saloon league in favoring de-
gree of dryness that is comparatively
damp to what the people of Michigan
voted for
Prohibition cannot mean anything but
PROHIBITION.
That is what Michigan's majority of
10000 said they wanted.
The vets raised the cry in opposition to
prohibition that it does not prohibit.
The drys said it was a lie.
Anti-Saloon league speakers said it was
lie.
Ministers from their pulpits said it was
a lie.
The Times said it was a lie.
Is it the object now to prove by an act
of the peoples legislature that would let
down the bars, to to speak, that this claim
of the vets was not lie?
What chance viii prohibition have TO
prove itself if liquor is to be easily pro
durable by those for whose benefit the sa-
loon was banished?
If there were economic reasons for
banishing the saloon, Just what benefit
will be derived from prohibition if liquor
remains within easy reach of all with the
money to purchase it?
If our object in banishing the saloon
was to Danish booze and remove it from
the community, what progress has been
made If continued and indiscriminate sale
and continued and indiscriminate drink
ing are encouraged the way a lenient pro-
hibition law would encourage these
things?
Let us tel you something, brothers:
Nobody ever succeeded yet in putting
John Barleycorn down for the count with
a stuffed club
If it was the idea to GET Mr.. John Bar
leycorn in voting for prohibition;
If it was the idea to do the home good
turn in voting for prohibition:
If it was the idea to protect men and
minds and bodies and take account Of so
ciety's future in voting prohibition, the
idea would seem to be that prohibition
law that will prohibit and that will be
CONSISTENT is the thing to be de-
manded Of the legislature, and to be
adopted by the legislature.
The amendment is very plain-plair
enough to be read by every member OF
the legislature, who should need to hear
from nobody further, and SHOULD hear
from nobody further to know what hi.
duty is and what is expected of him.
We voted to dry up Michigan.
We didn't vote degree Of dryness that
would mean a degree Of wetness.
There is nothing on any ballot voted by