Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-02

head; If you re against it, off it
r goes She knew that the bulk of
$ the members had proceeded ON the
pollcy--the convenient pclicy-of
saying: This is nothing for the
federal government to interfere
!. with. Les the states or the various
) communities deal with it as they
sec fit" OF course it was coward
ice, she argued, when makers of
the law kept their hands off what
they knew was an evi! and ex-
cused their apathy by contentious
that contained no common sense.
But the lethargy had continued.
Then, when Smith had an.
peared. his first attack had hecn
on what he termed the hypoc-
rlsy. the SNUG slunbel. of con-
gress." He had called them cow
ards openly, had stated III his
! speeches and interviews that onlN
towards would refuse to right a
wrong that was patent to all. And.
what was far O effective, he
had told them, in terms startlingly
clear, OF the woe alcohol brought
to the people, of the waste it put
on the country. He had made he
public see the individual sorrows
OF the bErdened women. the pa
thetic ruin Of the men. And. as is
always the case in such an agita-
ton, the response had come, slow
ly at tirst-so slowly that it had
hardly dimmed the smiles of de-
risjon with which he had been well
coined to Washington-and then
IN increasing volume until mem
bers had begun to Sound out'
the sentiment in their districts and
the whisky interests had sent into
Washington a regiment of their
sm%oothest, suavest men to act as
lobbyists.
Now the fight was on. Only
Mannersley and a majority of his
committee stood in the way, re-
fusing to report to the House the
resolution authorizing the consti-
tutlonal amendment. The House
could not act without anything be-
fore it. And Mannersley and his
colleagues, for reasons known onlv |
to themselves, shut their ears to
argument and sat, stubborn, un-
yielding, unreachable by the !
friends of prohibition, while Smith
and the organizations in sympathy
with him headed the country's
clamor.
Edith, making this mental cata-
log of the marvellous work the !
man had done, was passing La
fayette park on jackson Place
when she caught sight of him on
the sidewalk in front of her. The
first idea that came into her mind
was that he had never looked so
electric, so-so-<simpregnable"
was the word she hit on finally.
She drew up longside of him.
ION such a morning." she III
vited, as he stepped forward to
meet her, land with such a chauf-
feur, won't you come with met"
She thought he hesitated for a
fractional moment. Then, stepping
around to the other side Of the ma
chine, he opened the door and took
his place beside her. /
Anywhere" he laughed, his
eyes all compliment, with such a
chauffeur!"
In spite of her air of lightness,
he saw Immediately that she was
troubled. He wondered if she
knew Of his having received the
letter from her father.
"Where have you been?' she
inquired, as they bowled down be-
tween the White House and the
state, war and navy building, to-
ward Potomac park.
"I'm just back from the British
embassy" lie explained.
"And the secret mission?'
The ambassador wanted to tell
me that Lord Kitchener is about
to issue q proclamation asking the
people Of Great Britain to cooper
ate in his plan to keep liquor out
OF the army on the continent. You
know, the ambassador got from
me some months ago data about
the physical effects of alcohol on
the men,"
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