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New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
WOrId's Firsf
Dry Nation

America dry That will be something
new under the sun. In all history there
has never been great nation where no
liquor could be obtained though China
and Turkey have somewhat approached
Il. No part of America has ever been
dry No American, outside of Jail or the
hospital, has ever had to go long without
a drink As to what the results will be
tremendous controversies have ragged
among the scientists and pseudoscien-
lists for years.
Well say the drys, we will find
out all about that now. If the experi-
mcnt fails, if those evils they have pre-
dlcted develop, the question will be set
tied, anyway. The experiment is GER
tainy worth making for we know the
evils that drink brings"
The vets deny that America viii he
dry They point out that Americans
have great ability to take care of them
selves, and that distilIng is a simple and
cheap process. The big dssilleries can
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

without possibility of alleging error and
without appeal. Such suit would be "A
delight to lawyers, and might become one
Of the kind Of cases that occur only once
in a generation The arguments would
involve the most fundamental rights of
a union Of sovereign states.
Some of the wet lawyers believe that
the Supreme Court is headed in drec-
tion that would make such suit sue
cessful. They point out that the recent
decisions Of the court-and they freely
admit that these have ell gone against
them-have resulted in greatly increas-
ing the powers Of the states to deal with
their own problems, have given the bene-
fit Of every doubt TO the states This,
they hope, points toward belief on the
part Of the court that prohibition is
state matter
OF course there are other suits pend
ing IN attempts TO prevent the consum-
nation Of the rathcation but the wet
lawyers do not set much hope on them
One in California. brought by the wine
growers association. demands that a
referendum be held on the amendment
and should this suit succeed there it is
possible that similar suits will be brought
in fifteen other states which have refer
endum laws. But this, even il won. the
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
VIII a State
Bring Suit?

There ls growing desire among the
vets to have this suit put on higher
basis than that Of plea for protection
by some private interest, no matter how
big Lawyers believe there is way Of
doing this, and that is to have the suit
brought not by any individual or asso-
citation, but by one Of the states which
does not want prohibition, and can make
the claim that its rights are being in
vadcd. New York for instance, will
lose nearly $2o,o0o,000 revenue, and
could demand redress. Such suit would
lie by bill Of irnpleader against all the
states which have ratified the amend
ncnt, and could only be heard before the
Supreme Court Of the United States
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Laws Already
Z nder Way

porS On the preparation Of these laws
slFeady under way by the dry leaders
!, = congress, with the aid Of the dry
= .Saers outside. They arc to be drastic
ey vii specify the amount Of alcohol
."'ca liquor can contain and not be
s s@%'aered q. Intoxicating and the amount
"Te'y 70 1e ~ low az one-half Of per
'''' They viii provide for the enforce
=. ss"' oi the law By the proper author
- ana viii also settle the question Of
"s,ner man can let his own cider turn
: ne drya say they wiIl forbid this
nd. a'@' TINS would be to manufacture an
49,, .s,~Nant. Which thoec who have had
~'s with well-ripcncd cider admit, is
,,.. - addition the states, under the "con
~ ~ power" clause, will have the duty
fsssing sinilar Laws covering their
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

lawyers saY would merely afford delay.
Their main line Of defence, and they do
not conceal the fact that it is their last
one, is the big three -barrelled suit de-
scribed
The vets claim that they will be act
ing in the interests of the public as we'll
as Of themselves in doing this. and they
maintain that they will really act in ac-
cordance with the wishes of the MAJ jor-
ity Of Americans as well if they succeed
in defeating the drouth They do not
admit that a majority would vote dry if
they had the chance. They say that the
dry victory is the result Of the work of
a we'll organized minority able to i'm
pose its demands on legislators through
its scientific non -partisanship and use
of our system of government
The wet position has been given thus
fully because the vets are very much the
under dog Just now, and have been get
ting more and more under for some time.
The drys do not believe that their posi-
tion can be assalcd. They point to the
Publications as showing the will of the
country, cite precedents and advance ar
guments to show that the suit Will be de-
feated on all counts if brought, and are
entirely confident that year from the
date Of the Secretary of States an
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

make FIVE and half gallons of whlskcv
from one bushel Of corn The cradest
methods can make four That. with corn
at - q bushcl means Nhislev home
grown, for Is cents quart. instead or
ID cents driAN And such whiskev'
The vets also recall that in 1868 Con
gress raised the tax ON whisl4ey from 60
cents gallon to s. gallon. and that
as d result the revenue fell from $4,000.
oo0 TO $7000.00o
Watch the private stills Il America
does go dry" they say There aren't
enough law officers in the world to shut
them up
CoDgrcss is rather clad to bc ou. of
the next fight II has been lined up on
prohibition bills Of many kinds till it is
very tired Of unwilling legislators.
with remarkably strong breaths. have
duly voted dry time and again. with the
fear of their constituents on their souls.
and, going into the lobbies. have cursed
fervently. Now, with two more little
Jobs they hope to be able to sit back and
see somebody else take the gaT Then
two Jobs are, first, TO pass a~bll for the
enforcement of the war prohibition bill.
which goes into effect July /, and. second.
to pass the law for the enforcement of
the amendment. Then, they hope. they
can rest. The real drys will deserve it
the others probably need it worse.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Vets Still
On the Job

ne vets are worrying, but they are
also working, and they think they have
grounds for a perfectly good three-bar-
relied suit. They hope, very definitely,
to have the present amendment thrown
out. But they also hope that they can
do this IN way that will make anv ma
tional prohibition forever impossible so
long as the Constitution stands. TO this
end they even take comfort in the recent
decisions of the Supreme Court which
have gone against them
he first barrel Of the wet suit will
be the question of the right of Congress-
TO include the seven-year limitation in
the amendment. They argue, as a mat
ter of law, that Congress in this was ac
tually trying both to amend the Consti
tuition and to amend the method of
amendment IN the same action As a
matter of public policy they declare
that this forced a campaign to drive the
amendment through without sufficient
time for public consideration and debate
Their second barrel attacks the con-
current power of the states and nation to
enforce the law This, they say. is i'm
possible, and they argue that while there
IS concurrent jurisdiction now over sew
eral matters, either the state or the ma
ton has the supreme authority in each
case. Who can decide, under this
clause, they ask, whether state law
allowing 3 per cent beer or national
law allowing only one-half per cent beer.
IS to be enforced?
The third point is bigger, and much
more complicated 1t is under this that
they have hopes Of making prohibition
by the nation forever impossible. Here
IS their argument: The Tenth Amend
ment to the Constitution expressly re-
serves to the states all powers which are
not expressly delegated to the nation
One of these powers IS what is known
IN law as the police power This has
been repeatedly defined by the courts as
the owner to protect the safety, morals,
health and convenience of its citizens.
The prohibition amendment, they main
tain is thus police statute written into
the Constitution
But the police powers are reserved to
the several states, respecti0eIy That is
the most important word in the whole
Constitution to them just now They
claim, and they are going to argue before
the Supreme Court, that in view Of this
word no group of the states not even If
that group is all but one Of them-has
right to deprive another state Of this
reserved power without its consent That
unanimous ratification by all states of
an amendment otherwise constitutional
viii make national prohibition legal.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
The Amazing Onward Sweep of Prohibitio1
The Impossible of Ten Years Ago
Made Reality With a Rush i'm the
Last Few, Days

own territory. It's admitted that the ma
ton and the state laws may not alwavs
agree, but the drys are not worried hv
thls' believing that it will be small
matter which can be Strengthened ont
rather promptly by the courts. The vets
take different view. as will be ex-
planned later.
But even when all this has been ac
compllshed, the Anti-Saloon League will
not be through 1t will still have two
missions left, its officials declare:
10 watch the enforcement of the new
laws all over the country, and maintain
public sentiment.
10 convert the rest of the world
1t has already started on this second
MISSION, as it has long been busy on the
hrst 1t is now supplying funds for tenn
perance missionaries who are at work in
Scotland and Australia, where they put
their experience in the American fight
and their training as campaigners to use
III battles already started. This is onlv
the beginning Of the work planned bv the
league-it hopes, within q measurable
time, to convert the world and Danish the
Demon forever. It counts largely on tho
force of American example and the sue
cess which it expects to attend the ex
pertinent here to help accomplish this.
1t is not worrying over the legal fight
promised by the vets.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Always Sure
Of Victory

They have been sure Of victory from
the first they say, but the ratification ~
Massachusetts last spring was the thng
that made defeat impossible. With the
Bay State gone-and the Bay State 4
far from dry. so that the wets had a
right to count on its standing frm-the
wet cause was lost unless it could find
protection in the courts. The ratitica-
tions came little slowly at first. but
they have been a deluge in the last week
Here is the record. the story Of the death
of our old friend Demon Rum
lsl8-January s. Mississippi.
January II, Virginia; January Il.
kentucky; January %. North Ia
kota; January % South Carolina.
February I3. Maryland, February
10, Montana; March 4. Texas.
March 18, Delaware; March 90
South Dakota; April ,. Massachu
sets; April "a. Arizona; Nav IS
Georgia; July 9, louisiana Novem-
ber p, Florida
l9l9-January ,. Michigan, Jan
uary :. Ohio and Oklahoma. Jan
uary 5. Maine and Idaho and Ten
nessee; January g. West Virginia:
January 13. Washington and Cali
fornia; January Il. Arkansas. Indi-
ana, Illinois. North Carolina. Kan
sas and Alabama; January X.
Iowa, Oregon, New Hampshire, Col
orado. Utah; January Is. Nebraska.
Missouri and Wyoming
The dry leaders are confident Of get.
ting all but seven of the remaining
states. Three Of these New York. New
Jersey and Rhode Island. they hardly
hope to carry. In the others, Connect
cut, Wisconsin, Missouri and Minnesota
they admit that th y facs hard fghtx.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Anfi=SaIOOn League
! he Real Victor

Though the fight for prohibition in
America has extended over the last cen
tury beginning with the temperance So
cieties which limited their members to a
pint day, the real campaign has been
planned, organized and won in the last
ten years. And the real voter. both
sides will admit is the Anti-saloon
League.
This body had its birth in Ohio about
fifteen years ago, and it brought into re-
form new idea, which has been copied
by the suffragists since and is likely to
be the model for years to come. The
founders of the league of whom it's gen
eral counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler. is chief
observed thing which was no secret to
the Interests" of all kinds. to wit that
under the American system of elections
very small minority can rule legis-
lators if it sticks together and hits hard
simple example viii suffice Suppose
that IN given place there are hundred
voters. Of whom forty-fve are normally
Republicans and forty-hve normally
Democrats If, then. six Of the ten mug
wumps get together and vote together.
they will give the candidate whom they
support the votes that are necessary 10
election. In other words. they decide the
election, the ninety good Old party stand.
bys being, for all practical purposes. OF
no use to either side And if these SIX
show their power few times. and can
ever get either side to put up the kind
of a man they want-and what party
will not do that if it can get assurance Of
success then these SIX viii control the
candidate
That has been the tjme-honored svs-
TEN with the Interests" There might
be only q few liquor men in place. but
they could be counted on to hang to-
gether-and they got about what they
wanted. There might be only a few
labor union men. but they. too. got their
askings. And so on always provided
that nothing was asked that would stir
up the whole supine ninety SO that they
would jump over the party traces.
The Anti-Saloon League saw no rea-
son why it should not adapt to the uses
of reform this very effective system. It
did, and it has multiplied the little units
by thousands, till now there is not a state
nor county in state that has not felt
its power. The man who voted wet was
marked, and every dry vote went against
him, unless there was a greater issue.
Often there was, 50, even with the great
organization perfected. victory took
time. Also some pledged candidates
backslid, and it took time to kill or cure
them
But in first one county after another
then by states and, finally. in Congress
itself, the work went on, until the amend
ment was driven through Congress. BY
that time the battle was really over.
though many did not know it, Few can
didates on either party dared defy the
league. and when the legislative noses
were counted after the last election il
was clear that the league had more than
enough votes pledged to secure Nat!fica-
tion in more than enough states.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
The Sudden
Landslide

The record Of the passing Of American
territory into the dry area shows how
suddenly the final victory was gathered.
To-day 80 per cent of all the United
States is either dry or has been voted
dry, and 81 per cent ot all Americans
live IN this territory. In 1904, when the
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
The Great Social Phenomenon of the
Times, as The United States Be-
comes the First Dry Nation

Anti-Saloon League FIRST started worA.
after nearly century of fight by Pro
hiRtionists and finally by the prohib-
tion party. about 10 per cent of tho
country l3cd IN dry territory. and the
territory was less than a quarter of the
whole country Note in the record how
the pace has speeded up since then. The
first few years Of the leagues work wa
directed toward local option Here
the record.
1888 Name.
1880 kansas.
1889 North DaAota.
1907 OAlaboma
l9os Georgia
l9o9-Nissisaippi North earonn.
tennessee
}ei4- West Virginia.
Arizona. Alabama.
1916 Virginia. Colorado. Oregon
Washington Arkansas. Idaho love-
South Carolina
Nebraska South Dakota
Utah. District Of Columbia.
1918 Michigan. Indiana. New
Hampshire New Mexico. Tc.s
Alaska, Hawaii Florida. Wyomine
Nevada
1919-Montana, ONO. the Uhltcd
States, both by special war lcg.sla
ton and by Constitutional amend
ment
Along with this record of victory has
gone a similar record of victories in
Congressional legislation and in court
observation-disclosures which become merels.
academic with the passing Of the amend
ment. First there came the Reed law.
which prohibited the taking of houor
INTO dry states-a victory reinforced H.,
the Supreme Court only last Mondas.
Then came the law requiring that pack
ages containing liquor to be shipped IN
interstate commerce should be labelled
blow TO the shipment Of wet ~bools ."
Since the war the movement has gone
faster-the law first preventing import
alton of liquor, then restricting the
amount Of grain that could be used Tor
making drinks. and tnen forbiddina such
use altogether aud finally forbid
ding the entire tsafic in liquor during
demobilzation A last court decision
upholds the validity of the action 81
Congress On the amendment. winch wa-
challenged in ONO Oh the ground that iae
vote in Congress had been merely tso
thirds of quorum instead Of two
thirds Of the member ship. The court
held that two-thirds Of quorum VA
quite enough The day the court rem
dered that decision three states ratified
the amendment
The ratification has proceeded ofel
faster than the dry leaders had hope
Last fall theg predicted that It would -
put through before hot weather ace
ago they weee counting on winning
the end Of the month Nov they expect
that they viii have far more than
necessary thrty-six states within fer,
days counting orr the we'll known tea
dency Of people to gel on band wagon.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

nouncement will see America dry. They
see no danger of losing the victory they
nave won
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-08-08
KEEP INSURANCE, is ADVICE

81 desire to say to all discharged
soldiers, Don't fall behind in your war
risk insurance. said Colonel r. NJ.
Brambila officer in charge of the army
recruiting station in Spokane.
"Their insurance was one of the
most valuable things men in the ser
vice took with them when they were
discharged. 1t can now be converted
into the usual forms written by the
old line companies. The premiums
are just about half those of regular
companies and there are no restric-
tions as to occupation.
"If men are in doubt as to how
their premium stands they should
write to the Bureau of war risk in
surance, Washington D. c., and in
formation will be sent them. Those
men who have let some of their pre-
miums go unpaid are no longer in
sured, but they can be reinstated by
making proper application.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-08-08
GENERAL MANAGER OF PEN
NEY STORES HERE

Mr.. C. Z. Dimmitt, who is general
manager of the 1877 stores of the j.
C. Penney Co., with offices in New
York City, is making a tour of the
country, visiting all the company
stores, stopped off here last Sunday
for the purpose of comforting with
Mr.. Couchman, the local manager.
With him also was Mr.. L. V. Day,
who opened the Leavenworth store
ten years ago and is now state man.
ager for the Penney Co. For the
year 1918 the combined sales of the
company was twenty-one and a half
million dollars. Seventy-five new
stores are now being organized and
will soon be doing business. At this
time the company employees 2,111
people. Mr.. Dimmitt told Mr.. Couch
man that he looked forward to the
most prosperous times this country
has ever had, and that this prosper
ity will continue for several years.
$50 mote it be-"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-08-08
SCENIC HIGHWAY NEXT YEAR

According to the plans that have
been formulated the Cascade Scenic
Highway will be opened for travel
some time during the summer of 1920.
Snohomish, King and Chelan counties
have agreed to finish the construction
of their part of the road and with the
aid of the 100000 federal money
which has been promised by the for
estry officials it is believed that a
good mountain road can be built.
Once the road is open for travel it is
believed that it will only be a ques-
tion of short time until it will be
made a state highway, after which
the road bed will probably be i'm
proved by graveling and possibly paw
ing. 1t will prove to be one of the
best assets that Leavenworth has.