The sun., 1919-01-30
POLK DOOMS RUM
AS BRYAN LAUGHS
Ratification of Amendment
Making L. S. Dry in Janu-
airy, 1920, Announced.
SCREW ON LID NEXT STEP
Ey-Statc Secretary Ready
With Total Abstinence Drive
Here and Abroad.
Special Despdtch 10 THr Sex.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.--John Barley
corn's death warrant was signed o-day
by Frank l.. Polk. acting Secretary Of
state. when he formally announced the
ratification of the dry amendment to
the Constitution by the requisite number
Of State legislatures. While Mr.. Polk
signed the proclamation. William Jen-
n'ngs Bryan stood at his side beaming
with Joy. A little later on Mr.. Bryan.
unable to keep entirely silent on such an
occasion. issued this statement:
I'm the near future we shall deal with
individuals who are merely lawbreakers,
because II will not be possible to or
ganize a national bootleggers associa-
ton any more than a national associa-
ton of pickpockets.
The prohibition victory is a very
complete one. Forty-two States have
now ratified, although but thirty six
we're needed. Four more are certain to
ratify. leaving at most two that may
decline to ratify.
Enforcement of Law.
1.-THE work now before us nay be
divided into three parts. First is the
enforcement of the law. This will prove
less difficult year by year. Second. the
cultivation Of n sentiment in favor OF
total abstinence. In this moral support
Of the law the churches will lead and
the drinking of intoXicants will nc
longer be countenanced. Third, the car
rying OF prohibition principles and the
results of our own experience to other
lands
The proclamation Is dated to-day. bu,
legal authorities of the Department say
ratification was accomplished when the
thirty-sixth State acted favorably or
January IL and that under the terms OF
tho amendment itself prohibition be
comes effective one year from that date
TIE text OF the proclamation follows:
To all to whom these presents shall
come. greeting:
Know We that the Congress OF the
United States at the second session,
sixty-fifth Congress, begun at Wash
ington on the third day of December
in the year one thousand nine hundred
and seventeen. passed a resolution In
the words and figures following. to
wit:
Joint resolution, proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States:
Resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
OF America. in Congress assembled
(two-thirds OF each House concurring
therein). that the following amendment
to the Constitution be. and hereby is.
proposed to the States. to become valid
as part of the Constitution when
ratified by the legislatures of the sew
eral States as provided by the Con-
stitution:
Sections OF Amendment.
Section /. .lt.er one year from the
ratification Of this article the manu-
-NaNs In
toxicating liquors within. the importa-
ton thereof into. or the expectation
thereof from the\nited States and all
territory subject ~ the jurisdiction
thereof for beveragefurpose ts hereby
prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the sew
eral States shall have concurrent power
10 enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.
seton 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
erai States. as provided In the Con-
stitution. within seven years from the
date of the submission hereof to the
States by the Congress.
And, further, that 1t appears from
official documents on file in this depart
r7ent that the amendment to the Con-
stitution Of the United States. proposed
rs aforesaid, has been ratified by the
legislatures of the States of Alabama,
Arizona. California, Colorado, Della
ware, Florida. Georgia. Idaho, Illinois
indiana. Kansas, Kentucky. Louis
ANA. Maine. Maryland. Massachusetts
Michigan. Minnesota. Mississippi Mon
tana. Nebraska, New Hampshire
North Carolina, North Dakota. Ohio
Oklahoma. oregon. South Dakota
South Carolina, Texas. Utah. Vir-