The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-18
Statewide Prohibition Federation
Urges Adoption Of Constitutional
Change as Safeguard Against Posi-.
bic Failure Of National Amendment
REVENUE FROM LIQUOR
is DECLARED FALLACY
Representatives Of Every Dry oreanI.
ration, Without Regard to Politics,
Sign Manifesto.

Louisville, KY, June 8.-Appealinl
20 the people of the State Of Kentucky
TO adopt the statewide prohibition
amendment and to elect members OF
the legislature and executive and adj
ministratlye officers in sympathy with
the enforcement of prohibition after
II is adopted, the Statewide Prohibition
| Federation tonight issued a pr0clama-
ton OF its intentions and purposes and
urged that the dry people of the state
be not mlsled by the apparent certainty
| OF the adoption of the national amend
ment, but adopt the state amendment
80 that in the event the adoption of the
national amendment is held Illegal by
the Supreme Court of the United
States Kentucky will be protected from
the continuance of the liquor business
by its own amendment.
The proclamation declares that the
claim the state will lose revenue by
the adoption Of prohibition is fall
laciOus and that the financial burden
of intOxcatiOn and its effects upon
the state are far greater than any
revenue derived from the licensing OF
the liquor traffic.
The proclamation is signed by all
the dry organizations particlpat ting in
the dry movement in Kentucky which
form the Statewide Prohibition FEEDER
alton, Judge Henry S. Barker and Mrs.
Julia Gum, chairman and secretary
HncnnPfiNnlu nf hn LII
Callahan, of this city, chairman of the
Association of Catholics Favoring Pro
hibitiOn DR. A. j. A. Alexander, chair
man Of the Democratic Forward
League; DIR. Norman A. Palmer, super
intendent of Kentucky Anti-SaIoon
League; Mrs. Frances f. Beauchamp,
of Lexington, president of the Ken
lucky w. C. Il. o.; w. S. Lockhart,
of Louisville, executive secretary of
the Churchman'S Federation, and
Judge John p Haswell, Jr., of Har-
dinsburg, of the Republican Commit
tee FavOrlng Prohibition.
The proclamation in full follows:
To the People Of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky: !,
In order to secure 1at the election
next November the ratification by the
people Of KentHekgSofs the proposed
amendments Of, our State Constftationl
prohibiting the manufacture, sale or
transportation of spurious, vinous. |
malt or Intoxicating liquors, except for
sacramento, medicinal, scientific or
~ mechanical Of
1920, the various temperance organiza-
lions of the state have associated
themselves under the name, The State
wide Prohibition Federation.
The object OF this association is to
unity all of our efforts in the coming
election to prevent the duplication of
work in this direction, and to secure
the utmost harmony among the work
ers Of the different organizations en-
gagged in the great cause.
To this end, 1t is declared that this
organization is non-partisan, nOn-sec-
tartan and, nOn-racial. We call on
every citizen, without regard to poll
tics, religion, race or color, to aid in
this effort TO imbed within the funda-
mental law OF the Commonwealth a
prohibition Of the further continuance
Il the liquor traffic in Kentucky.
Reason For Organization.
The necessity for this organiza ton
Is made greater by the danger of pub
lie lethargy and Indifference superin-
duced by the belief that the Kentucky
amendment is not now important be-
cause of the adoption by the various
states of the Prohibition Amendment
10 the National Constitution, and also
by the insldious propaganda in this
direction by the liquor men, who are,
of course, deeply interested in the ad-
of every suggestion or
thought that tends to prevent the peO-
Pile from realizing the necessity of fur
Their anti-liquor warfare.
Already it is being claimed that the
national amendment, for technical rea-
sons, has not been lawfully adopted
and is, therefore, invalid; that the ma
tional laws to enforce prohibition are
for the end intended emf
nent counsel have been employed and
large sums Of money raised to test ,
these legal questions in the courts.
Safer To Adopt Amendment. +
1t is not necessary to touch upon
the merits Of these questions here
I can not be known in advance Of the }
ina judgment Of the Supreme Court }
what the end will be, but we can rea- !
,onably expect great delay and uncer-
:ainty while the litigation erawls its
weary way through the procedure OF
he courts, and we know now that the
cause Of temperance will be made |.
Iafer by the adoption Of the statewide
to be presented to the cit !
zens next fall, thus avoiding, II the .
election is favorable, the possible
of an adverse decision by .
he Supreme Court on the legality Of
he nationwide amendment or on the
iu0clenoy Of tlesiaws for It's enforce.