The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-07-11
How the United States Launched
The Great Experiment OF
National Prohibition.
emergency Law N EFFECT
President Returns Home 70 Take VI
Fight Tor League Of Nations-sena.
tor eorah Charges That Wall
Street 10 Financing League Of
Nations Propaoanda-eritish
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Disaster When Near End
Of Voyage.
BY EDWARD w. PickARD.

The United States has launched the
erdt experiment. Just after the
treaty was signed that nominal!y
brought the war to an end, our war;
time emergency prohibition act went
into effect and the entire country be-
came officially "bOne dry" Presuma.
bly, rehabilitation will he completed
within two months or 50, and there
will be wet spell' at least in some
states until the constitutional amend.
meat goes into effect on January l6.
At present there is considerable con.
fusion concerning the scope and the
enforcement OF the emergency law. A
federal court has ruled in favor of
beer and vine containing not to ex.
coed 2A per cent of alcohol and In
many localities the dealers are taking
I chance and dispensing those drinks.
In most states the old and new laws
on prohibition prevent even this In
any case the manufacture and sale Of
all drinks with the greater alcoholic
content are barred and Attorney Gen.
eral Palmer has ordered rigid enforce.
ment Of the law relating to them.
The "wets" have been making
game but losing fight, and the "drys"
have refused to yield at any point.
The forces of the latter In congress
are planning to pass measures to pre-.
vent the country from going on
whisky drinking basis between the
time Of rehabilitation and January 1ti,
and to put stop to the sale Of weak
beer and light wines at once, regard.
less Of court rulings.
Though the United States Is now the
only "dry" country, there may he an.
other before very long. for the United
Kingdom alliance. encoura ged by the
success Of the American prohibitionists,
has opened a campaign to put Great
Britain on the same basis. American
methods will be followed and Ameri-
can speakers imported. London CORE.
spondents predict that to deprive the
Britisher Of his ale. porter and beer
would almost precipitate revolution.
British labor Is against prohibition,
but so is American labor; and it may
be that John Bull will in the not dis.
tant future be reduced to drinking
"lemOn squashes" and minerals" The
world will watch the American expert.
ment, one Of the greatest ever made
In economics. with intense interest.
His great task abroad completed so
far as might be, President Wilson has
returned to his domestic duties. On
the homeward trip he signed bills and
read documents and otherwise pre-
pared himself for the contest that con-
fronts him III the United States. The
goal he has set for himself is the rati,
ficatiOn by the senate Of the peace
treaty, including the covenant of the
League Of Nations. Victory will not
come easily, though it probably will
come. maybe after the covenant has
been amended to meet the objections
now made by Il considerable number
ct senators. Those who are against
the league in any form are very few.
hut stubborn. 1t Mr. Wilson is equal
iy stubborn. the whole matter is likely
TO become Il partisan issue despite the
efforts of many party leaders to pre-
vent this. 1t is intimatcd that, if the
senate makes evident its intention to
refuse to ratify. the president will
withhold the treaty for the time being
and that would ut once make 1t an out.
and.out party question. There is pre-.
cedent for such course.
II the issue is Pst " = the people