The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-02-07
"6oNE-DRY" ALASKA.

The United States senate on Wed.
nesday passed a "bone-dry" prohibi.
ton law for Alaska. If the bill is as.
scented to by the house, it will be a
criminal offense for anybody in Alas.
ka TO have possession OF liquor The
senate came near making IT criminal
TO take drink, but finally decided
that in certain extraordinary cases it
could be lawful to have and imbibe
liquor. The people of Alaska voted
for prohibition by a majority of 2 to
1, but the senate went beyond the
action of the Alaskans and not only
forbade the sale or manufacture of
intoxicants, but also possession.
There was some discussion of the
measure, although the only southern
senator to comment was Oscar w. I'm.
derwood, of Alabama. There appears
to have been little interest in the bill
on one side or the other.
Senator Sutherland, OF Utah, repub-
lican, contemplated. The proposal as
likely, ultimately, to bring these pro-
hibition lags into disrepute." His own
interference with the liberty OF the
/ citizens He said Il think it is 60
ing altogether too far, and think 1t is
state wants "bone-dry" prohibition,
but he believes that such statute
should be passed only where the ma
jority sentiment in the state would
tolerate it.
democrat, stoutly maintained that the
| federal government ought not to force
a "bone-dry" law on Alaska, and in
vain sought to have the act of con.
Rress become operative only upon con.
sent of the people of that territory
lie condemned the "bonedry" princi- |
pie as drastic and arbitrary, adding
Il am opposed to tho principle of
prohibition wherever it may be invok- !
cd, | insist that 1t has accomplished |
no good II is a step too drastic and |
too un-American for me to stomach |
under any consideration
Senator Underwood favored the SEN
timent OF the liquor question by the |
people OF each state. He said, MY I
own view is that these problems must |
he worked ont by the people to accom-.
plish any result" AS Mr.. Underwood
represants a prohibition state, Ala
bama, his statement was especially |
interesting when he declared, 'if you
are going TO have prohibition, think
that Ia "bone-dry" law is the way
you should prohibit, I believe you
should either have prohibition or you
should not, do not believe in "blind
tigers" and subterfuges There
are serious penalties in this law. The
law is going a long way when you
step in and say what a man shall
drink and what he shall eat and say
that it shall be crime If he does not
conform to the law. The extent to
which lesiglation has gone heretofore
has been that when the abuse of q
mans personal appetites involved
The peace and dignity of the neigh
borhood and the rights of his fellow
citizens, then the law checked him.
Ii you are going to have a prohibi,
ton bill. make it as drastic as you
wish, because do not believe in hay.
ing a subtertuge. If you are going to
let men drink liquor. regulate it. and
regulate ii properly. If you are going
10 have prohibition, stop it entirely"
The senate, despite the objections
made by several senator's, voted bone
dry prohibition for Alaska, although
the Alaskans have not voted on the
specific question and now cannot do
SO, il the bill passes the house, as
is probable,
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HE COST OE GOVERNMENT.