Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-06-19
NATIONAL PROHIBITION

The following comments on tho mr.
sress for National Prohibition in take,
ron the Methodist Temperance cir
saeet sent out to editors, and will h
o1 interest to our readers:
red LOUISIANA has refused to ratifv IN
constitution and the Character - ~ IN IN
aen tsaa VIII satisfy any reasonable st,,
uent OF the times that ratification hv ~ ~
c eruiS,te number OF States is not oni,
70 rat1fy was carried in the Homsa' ~
to 49, 1t was rejected in the Sen a5e ~ q
was s;e va HoeeT2c rt to 20: One senate sea-
called a special election to fiji thai e ~
Tani seat and special session Of th.
tuSeslsiature for August to consider arei,
man nne i "a S of federal prohibition. III
prOhibitionist. "
t ths LIQUOR interests felt that they oouid
n n1td securely at all times. 1t had toler.
years IT had witnessed calmly the mos
VICIOUS sexual debauchery In New az
leans leans: o Until very recently gambling was
| e en1;nsiueted an evil that could not be
curing the last few years.
IN the same day that Louisiana took
as 1s;1 memorable th vote the State Senate of
voted to ratify national prohibition us1y
h;t IL misht De said frankly that prohi-
pidn rs MAD looked forward to Pc
was ratified Today it Is considaead
extremely probable that It the 1s9s
sprlnS legislative sessions will put the
manent part of the Federal Constitu-
ton. That opinion is based upon a
taredul analysis of the situation and a
psp of thu and haon5 of the
FOUNDED upon reports from many thou.
sands OF agents throughout the coun-
The liquor interests tried to head tho
amendment Off by the States rights
argument. blu: Mississippi, the State of
Jefferson Davis; Virginia, the State Of
Robert P: Lee and stonewall Jackson;
Calhoun, and Kentucky, the State Of Hen
ry Clay and John G. Carlisle, heard that
argument, gave it consideration, and by
r la of the amendment declared
is federal matter and that. no State
is safe while it maintains national pow
er' DULLES governments in times of cris-
whole nation the price of its misdoings
in every State that tolerates it.
me same people who appealed to
the South in the name of States RIGHTS
sectional prejudice, declaring that this
was movement Of the South to force
It's IDEAS of morality upon the North.
And the State of Massachusetts. which
has set at the head of the Northern
taole Tor many generations, reached the
hand of siSterhood across the Potomac
to the historic leader of the South. Vir-
GINA, and said, I'VE shall go this way
of Righteousness and prosperity togeth-
er, you and l."
Then the trade" fell back upon Mary
land and Kentucky, the States of famous
brands of whisky, where "puritanism''
has ever been held a shabby thing, and
Maryland and Kentucky declared that
this was the very best of puritanism
and they wanted it. They ratified. So
did Delaware, another wet State So
did Texas, by every test one of the
most important States in the Union,
Texas was not content simply with rati-
hcation; it remembered the times when
the liquor interests defrauded it past
all endurance and it's Legislature enact
ed State prohibition
The dry State testified to the sue
cess of their local prohibition policies
by Fastening to ratify, except in the
case of Nebraska. In this State the
Legislature in special session was pre-
vented from ratifying by small group
of politicians, all of whom had been en-
dorsed by the German-American Alli-
ance, and who took advantage of the
fact that the Governor had failed to in
clude prohibition in his call. South Da-
kota made it's ratification by unanimous
vote.
The Georgia legislative session is
still to meet this year and it's action
will be favorable