Gilpin observer., 1917-04-12
DRY LEGISLATION is
SATISFACTORY TO w. c. r. v.

league crfticises certain members OF
the recent Colorado house and SEN
ate fer their vote on the bcne-dry
bill. backed by the league. The liquor
legislation that was finaMy enacted
was the bill favored by the w. c. T.
U. and recommended by Governor
Gunter
The bill that was passed seems to
meet with the approval of the peo-
pie and particularly the genuine ad-
vocates Of prohibition. notwi.hstand-
ing the peevi shness of the Am.tSa-
loon league. over the refusal Of the
senate and house to pass their meas
ure and here the matter should drop,
for the time being at least.
Mrs. Adrianna Hungerford. state
president of the w. c. T. u, in ad-
dressing a meeting of temperance
workers in Grand Junction last week,
stated that the dry legislation pro-
cured in the last legislature through
the efforts of the association of which
she Us the head in Colorado, was
wholly satisfactory and that the bill
introduced by the Anti-Saloon league
was so full of flaws as to win for it
the support of the liquor interests.
Excerpts from her address as report
ed by the Sentinel follow:
THE liquor interests are backing
bone-dry legislation" said Mrs. Hun
gerford. Temperance workers have
always felt that the two things the
cause had to fear are failure to en-
force existing pr~ hibiticn laws, and
too drastic measures, created for the
purpose OF causing a revulsion Of
feeling. AS long as we are able to
enforce the laws on our books, the
sentiment for universal prohibition
will continue to grow.
after the experience we have had
with dry state, we found some very
important ways in whish the laws
could be bettered, for more effec-
tive fight against boohegging. The
chief obstacle we met was the ease
with which liquor could be brought
into dry Denver from wet Cheyenne
in private automobiles. By prohib-
iting that, and making it only pos
sible to import liquor by freight or
express, with Uncle Sans rules to
make registry imr mrerative, we are
confident that the chief obstacle to
enforcement of The law is removed"
"Bone-dry" Law Wasn't Bone-dry.
1.-The so-called 'bone-dry' bill in
troduced into the legislature was not
really bone-dry at all, and we have
had abundant evidence that 1t was
supported by the liquor interests.
When we read it, we saw that one
clause prohtait tied the use of liquor
as beverage, for sacramental or
medicinal use, or for scientific pur-
poses. Cn the next page, we saw that
confiseated iquor was to be turned
over to the hospitals-for what rea
son, IL it cannot be used incidentally?
and on next rage we found per-
init clause. 1t depended ON what page
the legislators read, whether they
Thought they had voted for a bone
dry bill or not.
There is only one bone-dry state
kansas, and she only dared to en-
act such drastic legislation after 80
years of prohibition. The other
states mentioned by the advocates of
the bone-dry bill here have legisla
tion substantially the same as this
state-ceutainly no better.
Most Men Use Beverage.
las matter Of fact. no state dares
to pass so stringent bill until pro-
hitition is we'll on it's feet Rich
mond p. Hobson, ore of the most ar
dent temperance workers of the
country. says that fully so ger cent
OF the men of the country use liquor
for medioiral purpose or for an oc-
as criminals. would cause reaction
against the dry cause. that would
make us lose what we have already
won in 25 states.
Make no nistafe-the Urion is
in favor Of bone-dry legislation. We
have fought the liquor traffic for
years, and we see ul innate victory in
sight. We feel that the law that has
passed our legislature, with the able
and patriotic assistance Of Governor
Gunter, will make 1t possible for us
to eliminate bcotlegging, whi h was
The undertaking we set for ourselves
this year. Later we shall take higher
this state and the nation. will be
bone-dry in truth before many more
years have passed.