The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-05-07
Why World Wide
Prohibition Come
lClarence True Wilson.

AOA0A GllGE 1TuE4 w llSOu.
For fifty years the prohibition
movement has been under way. Beat
en- back by many storm, threatened
Dy many an angry wave, endangered
by reefs and shoals. with both wind
and tide against her, she has wealth
cred all the storms, made more steam
amidst the gale, and reaching the port
at last is anchored in the Federal
Government on the rock base of the
Constitution.
Eight years ago there were only six
states dry, now thirty one. No state
was very dry, for the old prohibition
laws leaked like a sieve The very
term bone-dry is less than three years
Id. The word had MOI been coined
describe this type of legislation, be-
Use the thing described was no.
ere in existance.
Oregon and Arizona put the new
cal, bone-dry prohibition, into their
institution November 7, 1916. In
anuary of 1917 sixteen state legisla-
'es followed suit, and in February
ngress passed the bone-dry law
opplng the interstate shipment of
ntoxlcants into dry territory Then
the weak and unsatisfactory amend
ment to our Constitution, which Hob
son proposed, was put under the table;
and with perfect unanimity the tenn
Sperance reformerS adopted bone-dry
Constitutional amendment. A two
thirds vote of both Houses of Con-
gress passed the resolution and it
went out to the states. There it met
the overwhelming acceptance of the
peoples sentiment and in a breath
taking speed it ran it's course through
forty-five states, and will have them
all. When the corrupt political ma
chimes that have held New Jersey,
Rhode Island and Connecticut under |
the stranglehold of brewers donina-
ton are broken, we shall win. We
are going to have dry United States |
and a dry world
AS never before the eyes of the
earth are upon the United States of |
America; and what Kansas and |
North Dakota did for the nation. Am |
erica will do for the world, viz, show
it that great people can grow and |
prosper, educate their children and
run their government, pave their |
streets and build their Institutions |
without the help of tainted dollar of |
liquor revenue in their treasury; and
in addition, make the whole people !
happy, law-abiding and prosperous.
We must make this national and in
ternational series of victories world |
conquest now.
First: Because of the oneness of the
human race. God hath made of one I
blood every nation of men to dwell |
on all the face of the earth" Both {
prohibition and prohibition are
like bolshevism in that each must con-
quer the world or die throughout the |
world. Reform, like bicycle, topple
over if they stop: they must keep
moving. If prohibition ceases to be
militant, the -prohibitionist will
lead a fight against it.
William Howard Taft's recent arti-
Gle shows that even it's enforcement
in his estimation should be accom-
plished in order to cause reaction |
against it. If we can get strict en-
forcement of bone-dry prohibition we
will risk the reaction.
The necessity of extending prohi-
bition is twofold-in Europe and
South America, because we are weld |
ais and conduct with theirs, eventually |
we must reach one standard. The
increasing unity of social and intellec-
rade relations make it impossible for
1 the civilized world to remain half I
= sober, as we found it impossible for
a similar state of affairs to continue
in this country. One wet state was
saturating the fringes of the dry
states around it.
Again-in Asia and Africa either
prohibition must become of the mis- /
sionary program or that whole pro-
gram becomes susceptible of suspi- /
cion of insincerity. DR.. Mathews, IN
the methodist Times" of London
January %, 1919. says: 1.-TWO days |
ago an intelligent, well read Christian |
city man told me that missionaries |
ought to be stopped because they are
opening up countries to the evils Of
civilization, like gin; and there are
evils enough in the world without our |
carrying them across to the pure hea-
then"
If prohibition is good thing for
the United States and Canada, it is
a good thing for England, France and |
every other country If it is bad
thing it could have found out before |
this date; it has been tried by thirty |
states and the results have been salts |
factory. The effort of certain New
York newspapers to pretend that pro-
hibition is an untried experiment, |
IN when thirty-one states are dry, and
cities like Detroit. Denver, Portland
and Seattle, is amusing. Whenever
Il fhrohibition has been tried, it has won
\ His way; it has usually doubled it's
ilIaaiorities on the first test vote after
Iard.
Thus Michigan has settled it by
.ubling her enormous majority of |
t W. and a half years ago, and decides |
ttWstay bone dry until the nation comes
70 to her standard. 1t is the exper-
;uapplce of all the states-they go dry;
iev nrohihition a little while: at the. |