The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-08-31
ST. LOUIS TIMES FIRMLY
HOLDS THAT
OPINION s
IGNORANT
Vote Against Compensating
Liquor Industry for Loss of
Business Ar0uses Wrath of
Editor Joseph Debar Tsls
Why National Prohibition
Amendment Is Unfair

The Senate vote of 80 10 81. refusing
to compensate owners of vineyards,
breweries and distilleries for the de-
struction of their property by prohibl-
ton is, OF course, merely dishonest
The Government for a great many
years has been largely supported by
the tax paid by the men who own these
distilleries, breweries and vineyards.
Their business has been recognized by
the Government at least to this extent.
Now that the same Government is
about to wipe out this business, it is
entirely right and proper that the own
ers should be paid for their losses
nothing more
The fact that large number of good
citizens do not like the products of the
business really has nothing to do with
the case. Another large number of
citizens are either Indifferent or ia
vorable. The real point is whether the
United States wishes to take some
thing for nothing, to ruin large class
Of business men who have been paying
their taxes regularly and to put this
country on record as supporting a pol
Icy Of confiscation without compensa-
ton.
We Are Fighting For II.
One Of the big points we are making
against Germany Is that she must
compensate Belgium because Of her
conhscatlon of that country and its
property, and we are fighting a great
war to enforce that principle.
Yet Senator Stones amendment pro-
viding that the owners of destroyed
property should be paid has been de-
feated by our Senate by vote of so
to 81.
With all respect to the greatest de-
Lucrative body In che world" as a
body, we have only to say that the so
men who voted against the Stone
amendment are either ignorant or dis
honest.-St. Louis Times
This is from the Cincinnati En-
Quirer:
Congress evidently wishes TO wash
its hands of the irksome prohibition
question by passing 1t on to the State
Legislatures for settlement" yester-
day said Joseph Debar, of Cincinnati,
President OF the National Wholesale
Liquor Dealers Association.
An Unfair Proposal.
objection to the Sheppard amend
ment. or any amendment to the Fed
10
American opposition TO minority rule
and Is due to the fact that the smallest
state in the Union. Nevada, with not
more than $4,000 inhabitants, casts ex-
actly the same vote for or against the
proposal as the great state of New
York. with over 100000 inhabitants
This means that the legislatures of
Nevada or Idaho, can have a voice in
determining the habits and mode OF
life OF the inhabitants of New York or
Ohio. The inequity and unfairness OF
this is seen at q glance when il Is
pointed out that Sc states. containing
a great deal less than One-third of the
population of the United States c4n
ratify an amendment against the
wishes of the IL states containing a
large majority of the population OF
the country.
That the Senate was tired of prohi-
bition haranguing was evidenced by
its fixing time limit of six years in
which the prohibition amendment must
be ratified by SO of the As states II
not ratified within six years the pro-
posal fails automatically The great
American white elephant will be no
more,"