New-York tribune., 1919-06-30
Is Per Cent of
Bars Expect to
Open Tuesday
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ing that President Wilson's announced
determination to interfere in no way
until the actual conclusion of demobil-
lzaton was a serious blow to the Vets
Even this announcement, however. car
RED with it much of encouragement,
since it contained the assurance that
the President would issue a proclama-
ton ending wartime prohibition i'm
mediately after the conclusion of de-
mobilization
Because of this situation interest
Immediately centred upon the home
coming of the American troops Op-
ponents of prohibition with statistical
MINDS called attention to the fact that
therc still! are approximately 1000 900
American troops in the nations emer-
gency service. But, they added, the
pending. plan for peace time military
establishment calls for an army of half
million men. Therefore, according
to tins same authority, demobilzation
Wi WI have been completed as soon as
ooV,0O0 or 100000 more men have been
returned to their homes At the rate
troops are being brought across the
Atlantic they believe this will consume
tive or six weeks.
Looking Forward to August
The net result Of this argument.
and liquor interests in New York. is
the conviction--for themselves at any
rate-that the present dry measure
wlll remain operative until the middle
OF August only. That the absence of
means of prosecuting violators of the
law during that period would make it
comparatively easy TO continue doing
business until August IS, or there
abouts, offered more hope to those who
took that side OF the question.
The Association Opposed 20 National
Prohibitions, which has steadfastly re-
FUSED to be drawn into any discussion
concerning wartime prohibition, on
the theory that that body had to deal
only with the Eighteen h Amendment,
which will bring nationwide prohibition
On January 16, 1920, departed from it's
usual attitude yesterday. 1t deoarted
so Tar as to issue d statement which
contained bitter attack upon the
supporters of wartime prohibition,
charging that the Sheppard amend
ment was "conceived in hypocrisy,
brought forth in dishonesty and spon-
sored by the most arrant lot of takers
that ever masqueraded as honest men"
After discussing the Presidents
statement and the probable period that
will elapse before demoblization is
completed, the statement adds:
Superb Legislative Hypocrisy
"In other words, if the Eieh-
teeenth Amendment becomes opera
tive on January IS, which can
not be the case if the referen-
dum proceedings invoked in eleven
I fof =.
pc held IN the grip Of wartime pro-
hlbltion only until such time as the
President has the power to issue a
/ proclamation to the effect that the
emergency army has been demobilizcd.
He has said SO himself That will be
on or about September 20.
ON its face the so-called Sheppard
amendment was foisted upon our peo-
PIE as needed and necessary war
lime emergency measure. Never was
a more superb piece OF legislative
hypocrisy put upon the statute books
OF the United States.
ms a. assertion is proved by refer
ence TO "The Congressional Record" the
Official journal of Congress. When
the Sheppard amendment was up for
debate James w. Wadsworth, senior
Senator from New York, asked Sen
ator Sheppard why July was fixed
as the date when wartime prohibi-
ton became operative. The Senator
from Texas replied naivcly that that
date was fixed because the war might
come to an end sooner than was
expected. Thcroupon Senator Wads
worth, in substance, rcplicd:
Then this measure is really not
wartime legislation, but prohibition
legislation, pure and simple
ITO this Senator Sheppard made no
coherent reply, because he knew that
Senator Wadsworth had exposed the
fake and the fakcr. Now then; since
the President has declared that he viii
proclaim demobilization of the armv
when really the army shall have been
demohillzcd, and since he will be able
TO do so on or about September 20. and
since thereafter, until the Eightcenth
Amendment goes into effect, there can
be no legal national prohibition. tho
only thing for Congress to do, in the
ace Of this declaration by the prcsi-
dent, IS 10 repeal wartime prohibition
at once.
"lf i. is permitted to remain upon
ibc statute books and opcrativo unt;l
The President procIaims dcmobijjzation
1t "iii be known Of all men that il was
never intended to be legislation in
tended to meet the emergency of war
nut piece of prohibition legislation
pure ard simple enacted solely for tho
purpose of infctng the fanatical viii
or II tyranical minority on the major
'ty Of the citizens of this Republic.
- TO the members OF the Sixty-sixth
congress IL given the opportunity to
i'gh' great wrong and to give abso-
lutte proof to their countrvmon that
when they voted for the so-cnllod
sheppard amendment they vGrd for
Il wartime need and not for y .ionol