The Springdale news., 1919-01-24
NATION WIDE
 PROHIBITION
,.ondment Ratified January H.- Will Go Into Effect January 1920

stitution.
 p,.,yisions of the eighteenth amend
 .t ,y;tb the length of time taken for ratification follows:
 p;.s+ ion amendment, known as ,o .b;u of rights" provided guar s,,taos such as free speech, ratified in nine months
 Eleventh amendment established aogereipntv of states; ratified Tn four years. , ... ad af presidtntial election; ratified m one year. Thirteenth amendment, prohibited alaYeyv. ratified in slightly less than a year.
 Fourteenth amendment, made ne .roos citizens; ratified in two years. Fifteenth amendment, enfranchlsed ,ooroes on same basis as white per sons. ratified in one year.
 sixteenth amendment; allowed con- gress to levy income tax; ratified Tn three and one-half years.
 Seventeenth amendment, provided for popular election of senators; rat flied in slightly less thar year.
 Fiyhteenth amendment, makes eonatry dry; ratified in one year and one month.
 About one hundred amendments have been proposed to congress, but only four besides those ratified were submitted to states.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. l7.-Prohibi- ton is now part of the basic law of tho limited States. Ratification of the federal amendment by the Nebras- ka capital legislature made that meas ure the eighteenth amendment to the federal constitution.
 All but half dozen of the foroy- eight states are expected to adopt the amendment in the next few weeks. hut the action of Nebraska yesterday gives the ratification of three-fourths of the states. the number necessary to administer John Barleycorn the k. O. punch.
 One year from today every saloon, brewery, distillcry and wine press in the land must close it's doors unless as now seems likely, they are already closed at that time by war prohibl- tion, which goes into effect next July l. and stays until completion of de- mobilization
 The amendment which outlaws liquor in this country reads:
 Section L After one year from the ratification of this article, the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquor within the importation thereof into or the expor- tation thereof from the United States and all territories subject to the jar isdiction thereof for beverage pur- poses are hereby prohibited.
 Section ? The congress and sev- Niol otdtSa nave lHe coiiC ltO"ci to enforce this article by appropriate legislation"
 Section 3 The article shall be imperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the con stitutlon by the legislatures of the several states as provided by the con sttution within seven years of the date of submission thereof to the states by congress"
 This IS the amendment adopted by Congress December IS, 1917. and rati- fltd ny thrty-six states little more than one year later.
 And here are some of the things that the amendment will do:
 Wipe out at stroke 236 distilleries; ss2 breweries and over 30O,0O0 sa- looms and wholesale liquor establish ments, forcing their employees to seek other jobs.
 out off from these persons annual income totalling more than S70,0o0, oo0 Tn pre-war times.
 eut off from the United States treasury source of taxation counted upon for an even billion dollars in tneir hrst drafts in the new revenue oiii and millions in additional income to state trtasuries.
 Remove the liquor question from national, state and city politics for a'' tune and help increase city, state anu federal expenses by decreasing law violations.
 The fight on liquor, triumphant to- uay, IS as old as the constitution itself.
 u raised its head early in the nine seellth century and was looked upon as another crank notion"
 put 1t gathered strength. Church. :. eoof Il up, doctors followed and r t"en came the organization of anti 1quof societies, the Anti Saloon Lea que and others,
 iH the middle of the nineteenth cen , .u's Maine went dry. Kansas fol- ~ a"eu, , At the end of the Civil War nI "'oe band of anti-slave agitators, @Ho mad won their fight. seriously hsiaered ho4sa turning to the prohibition G Ha''ie Their number included Will ,;o. hoyd Garrison and Poet Whit About 1900 came the militant of ', m the person of Carrie Nation ,>,,ra ahsas' probably the most pie
 ssque figure the fight ever devel-
 Ten years later the crusade against