Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-13
East Especially Worried by Re-
sentiment in Industrial Gen.
tiers; Reds Utilize Dry Law
to Preach Oppression Pleas.
REPORT GENERAL STRIKE
MAY BE CALLED JULY |
New York Said to Be Center Of
Anti Prohibition Drive; Dry
Leaders Depend on Time to
Ease Situation.
Capital News Special seryice.)

Capital News Special Service)
Washington, Feb. 13.-There have
been ominous hints recently of serious
disorders to follow the clamping down
of the prohibition lid. These reports
are so frequent and persistent and
come from so many directions that no.
tice is being taken of them in official
circles, though the country does not
know 1t.
National prohibition is resented in
some Of the large, congested centers Of
the east where, no doubt, there Is now
being fostered some spirit of revolu-
ton. One report has 1t that general
strikes are to be called in the Industrial
centers on July If congress does not
remove the ban placed on all the coun-
try by the wartime prohibition meas
ure. Another story coming from the
coal fields of Pennsylvania Is that large
placards have been posted which read:
mo booze, no COAL" 1t is said that the
Bolshevists have grabbed national pro-
hibition and are holding 1t up as an ex-
ample of the oppression of the Ameri-
can government, being ready and will
ing to promote their doctrine of dis
content by any method at hand.
GOTHAM THE CENTER.
1t appears that the center of all of
this nti-prohibition propaganda is in
New York, where 1t Is preached that
national prohibition takes away from
the people of the greatest city in the
world the right to govern themselves.
the fact being pointed out that New
York city gave plurality of 100000
last November against Governor Whit
,nt ha pitU c nnl1ch
opposed to him but because he was
running on a prohibition platform.
This situation seems to have been
sensed by Former President Taft, who
dropped his discussion of a league Of
nations for a day TO urge upon all citi-
zens their obligation to obey the pro-
hibition law whether they believe in
the principle or not.
Those who are melting these disor-
ders, IL such be true, forget that viola
lions of the prohibition law after the
18th amendment becomes effective.
will be handled by the federal govern
ment. There will be no trials of seri-
Gus offenses in the courts of justices
of the peace where an alleged yiolator
faces jury of his neighbors and
friends, and any grave disorders will
De met IL HeCtSSdls ny q NoheihSShs Va
the regular army.
TIME BEST REMEDY.
The prohibition leaders of the east
are apparently well advised on the sit
uation and are handling it wisely, OBJ
viously confident that a year or two of
prohibition will bring the great ma
jority of the people in the east to its
support lust as has ben the case in the
west.
There will be no searching Of homes
and invasion OF personal rights, Wayne
| B. Wheeler, general counsel for the
Anti Saloon League of America, an
nounces. He says:
"The fear expressed that radical
measures might be adopted to inter-
fere unduly with the privacy of the
home will not be realized. We have al
ways guarded this in every prohibition
act, realizing that mans home Is his
castle. There will be no effort to make
the search and seizure law apply to
bonafide private residences unless such
private residence becomes place d
public resort for drinking or for the
sale or illegal distribution of liquor
This. provision is found In nearly all
the prohibition laws. home that be-
comes a speak easy or blind tiger
forfeits the right that naturally belongs
to a home. A bonafide home willsnot
be interfered with"