The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-01-25
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NATION WILL BE ENTIRELY DRY
The Amendment.

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toxicating liquors within, the importa
ton thereof into, or the expectation
thereof from the United States and
all territory subject to the jurisdiction
thereof for beverage purposes, are
hereby prohibited.
! Section 2. The congress and sew.
eral states have the concurrent power
to enforce this article by appropriate
| legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be in.
operative unless it shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the con
stitution by the legislatures of the sew
eral states as provided by the consti.
! tuition within seven years of the day
| congress-
| What 1t viii Do.
! The amendment was adopted by
congress December IS, 1917. Here
are some of the things it will do:
| Wipe out at a stroke 236 distilleries;
| 1872 breweries, and over 100000 sa-
looms and wholesale liquor establish
ments, forcing their employers to seek
other jobs.
Cut off from the United States treas
ury source of taxation counted upon
for an even $1,00O,O00,000 in the first
! drafts of the new revenue bill, and mil
lions in additional incomes to state
| treasures.
Remove the liquor question from
national, state and city politics for all
time, and help decrease city, state and
federal expense by decreasing law VIC
lations.
The new law will not affect wine
! for Sacramento purposes.
An Old Fight.
The fight on liquor, triumphant to-
day, is as old as the constitution it.
self. 1t raised it's head early in the
| 18th century and was looked upon as
crank notion
But it gathered strength. Churches
took it up, doctors followed and then
came organizations of anti-liquor So
cieties, the Anti-Saloon league and
others.
In the middle of the 10Th century
Maine went dry Kansas followed.
At the end of the Civil war the anti
slave agitators, who had won the fight,
seriously considered turning to the
prohibition battle. Their number in
Guided William Lloyd Garrison and
the poet John Greenleaf Whittier.
i About 1900 came the militant in
the person of Carrie Nation of Kan
sas, probably the most picturesque
figure the fight ever developed.
Ten years later the crusade against
liquor had grown from the rawlings of
cranks" into an irresistible movement
that, swept the country.
John Barleycorn will try to stage a
return.
Distillers plan fight on the amend
ment in the courts on the ground that
it was not adopted by two-thirds of
the whole congress. and that the sew
en-year limitation in it invalidates the
measure This provided that Sc states
must ratify within seven years
Drys are confident neither of these
contentious will hold and are prepar-
ing legislation carrying heavy penal
ties for violation of prohibition.
Ratification.
The following states have certified
ratification of the amendment: Ari-
IONA, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland,
Montana, Michigan, North Dakota,
South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas,
| Virginia.
The following states have voted for
ratification; Alabama. Arkansas, Cali
fornia. Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Idaho. Kansas, Missis-
sippi. Maine, North Carolina, New
Hampshire, Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon,
Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia,
Washington, Nebraska.
Eighteenth Amendment.
The prohibition amendment is the
18th added to the federal constitution.
Provisions of the Is amendments
with the length Of time taken for
ratification follow:
First 10 amendments, known as the
bill of rights" provided guarantees
such as free speech: ratified in nine
months. aas
Eleventh. established sovereignty of
states; ratified, in four years.
Twelfth, changed method of presi-
Dental elections; ratified in one year.
Thirteenth, prohibited slavery rat
flied in slightly less than year.
Fourteenth, made negroes citizens;
ratified in two years.
Fifteenth, enfranchised negroes on
same basis as white persons; ratified
in one year.
Sixteenth, allowed congress to levy
income tax, ratified in three and a
half years.
Seventeenth, provided for popular
election of senators; ratified in slight
ly less than a year.
Eighteenth amendment, makes
country dry; ratified in less than two
years.
About 100 amendments have been
proposed in congress, but only four
besides those ratified were submitted
to the states,