The Springfield herald., 1917-05-04
The Pueblo Cn .eftain
On the New Booze Law

10 Chieftain of the 26th ult. pub
lished an editorial that for gall,
brazen effrontcry, ludiclous con
tortions, and rank misreprese Mt
ations would have been consid err
ed the limit even in the piping
days when it was considered
that-''everything goes in pol
itics."
The Chieftain seeks to dis
credit the new law and Gov.
Gunter by making an unfavora-
BILE comparison with the old law
and Ex-Governor Carlson; and in
order to bolster up its accusa-
tions, it also takes dig at the
official roster of the w. c. L. U
One of the ludicrous contor-
tions of both logic and fact is it's
attempt to d. lude its readers by
the assertion tina. the state was
reasonably dry under Carlson
and the old law, while for the
past thirty days it was as wet
as it was the night before prohi-
'bition went toto effe ct.-
Boiled down, the assertion
amounts to this: Because
enough booze was shipped in
during the last thirty days OF
the old law to make the state as
wet as it was the night before
prohibition went into eject,
therefore the new law is wetter
than the old law.
To give an appearance Of
plausibility to the argument, the
statement runs thus: If the
state officials in 1917 permit the
importation CT liquors by the
train load simply because an
amendment was placed on our
prohibition law, then the state
officials of 1919 can do the same
thing. and disgrace will become
biennial occurance.
In the first place, will the
Chieftain please to expiafn to its
readers how the state officials
could have prevented the impor-
tation of liquor which the old
law permitted during the last
thirty days of its existence, any
more than Carlson could during
the last thirty days before the
old law went into effect.
In the second place, will the
Chieftain explain how in 1919,
should another amendment be
passed, any more liquor can be
shipped in during the last thirty
days of the present law than
during its first thirty days.
If the Chieftain's "argu-
ments" prove anything in this
case, it is that the state grows
wetter under prohibition be-
cause of the immence quantities
shipped in before it went into
effect, and still wetter under the
last amendment to The law for
the same reason, and so on ad
in6niti.n.
If the Chiftain doesn't know
/ why the stocking up was done
before the prohi law went into
effect, and again when the
/ amendment went into effect, its
editor would better go back to
school awhile and study the laws
of cause and effect.
In the righteousness of its
cause and in it's Indignation the
Chieftain exclaims Does anyone
think that if Carlson had been
governor, fourteen tons of liquor
would have been shi pped into
eadville in any one twenty four
hours, and over l2O tons in to
Denver in that time?"
| Of all the rotten things that
ever came out of new spaper Of.
tice! AS if Carlson or any other
man on earth could have pre-
vented the shipment of boose
under a law that permitted it
any more than Carlson die the
immediate days before the pro.
| hibition law went into effect at
the close of 1915.
The w. C. T. U. F? Wonder il
the Chieftain knows that Carl.
son was in constant consultation
with the Union officials during