Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-23

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Mraces will never
wv Who would suspected that the
time would when the rabid bone-dry pro-
hbitionists agreement with the
unreasoning antiprohibtionists? The Reed amendment
the postal appropriation bill brought it about The
Reed amendment is bone-dry provision that will make
Georgia other prohibition dry Kplings
rain-washed bone.
Bone-dry prohibitionsts favor the amendment be-
cause they believe enforcement big step
the absolute suppression of the liquor traffic.
Anti-prohibitionists including dstillers and whole
salers favor the amendment because they think its
enforcement will accomplish double purpose, to-wit:
First, check the movement for nationwide prohibit
tion which the liquor people believe from proh
biton states whose laws have proved less in
efhcacious
Second. many prohibition communities
themselves with respect to their local liquor laws
United States senator from prohibition state
tells that in one county state there are 21OO
signed for shipments of whisky during the holt
days. He says these people for prohibition
whelmngly but he suspects they deprived wholly
of their liquor they may not feel strongly for proh
bton He thinks a majority of these people believe
prohibition good thing for the fellow will
resent any law that will deprive them of theirs"
There are some prohibitioniss professionals, they
are called) who affiliate the Anti-Saoon league
possibly recognize the force of the point made by
the unidentified Their lot anything
but a happy since the passage of the Reed amend
mept Their. motives in opposition have been ques-
toned They accused of espousing the
of prohibition means only to selfish end-per-
sonaI revenue. They have been chided with being
afraid that the Reed amendment will leave more
reformers than bartenders out of jobs"
When the Hobson resolution for a constitutional
amendment prohibiting the SALE manufacture and
importation of intoxicating liquors, before the
public two three the chief argument
advanced by opposed it that passage
infringement of the rights of
deal with the liquor question. Local option their
cry. of comforting upon govern
the right regulate the liquor traffic repug
democratic institutions. Many of them
voted against the resolution solely score and
successfully defended their before their con-
stituents
But the Reed amendment interferes with the rights
of the states to regulate whisky traffic. There
room for this point. IF state prohibits
the sale of whisky in it's borders
ment arbitrarily prohibits the shipment transporta-
ton of single drop of whisky into that state It
makes no difference whether the state,
Georgia, legazes the importation of quarts per
month the Reed amendment utilities this provision.
The federal government actually abrogates
law! Yet many in public life who much
concerned about and aroused against the Hobson
amendment because it conferred similar powers upon
the government complacent enough toward
the Reed amendment
bone-dry prohibition, there is nothing under high
heaven to keep legislature passing
making the state absolutely dry. Why should the
federal undertake prescribe something
Georgia line of prohibition that Georgia herself
has not asked for?
cry heretofore been that the govern
would not let state that wanted prohibition