The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-07

For atty years the prohibition
. movement has been under way. Beat
on bark ny many a storm. threatened
nv many an angry wave, endangered
by reefs and shoals. with both wind
/ and tide against her she was wealth
I 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 hone-dry is less than three years
old The word had not been coined
! to describe this type of legislation.
/ because the thing described was no
+ where in existence.
+ Oregon and Arizona put the new
ideal bon dry prohibition, into their
i constitutions November I. 1915. In
January ~ 1917 sixteen state iegisla-
lures followed suit. and in February
congress- passed the bone-dry law
stopping the Interstate shipment of
intoXiCants into dry territory. Then
. the weak aud unsatisfactory amend
ment 10 ~ar constitution. which Hob
son proposed. was put under the
table. and with perfect unanimity the
! horc-dry. Constitutional amendment
4 two-thirds vote of both houses Of
congress passei the resolution and 1t
! Went out O the states. There il met
the overwhelming acceptance OF the
peoples sentiment and IN a breath
taking spea1 IN ran lis course through
forty five states. and will have them
all. When tAe corrupt political ma
chimes THAI have held New Jersey.
Rhode Island ana Connecticut under
The Atranglehold OF brewers dornina-
tinn are broken we shalt win We
arc going 70 have a dry United states
and a dry world.
As never before tho eyes OF the
earth are alpon the United States of
America; and what Kansas and North
Dakota did for the nation. America
win do for the world, viz, show it
that a great people can grow and
prosper. educate their children and
run their government. pave' their
. streets an3--huilG. th4iF institutions
without the help of q tainted dollar
II liquor revenue in their treasury;
and in addition make the whole peo-
pie happy. law~abiding and prosper
ous.
We must Il AXE this national and
tt4t+arpatinrai- series az victories a
world conquest now.
First because of the oneness OF
the human lace. God hath made OF
one blood "fvery nation OF men tc
dwell on all the face of the earth"
| Both prohibition and anti-prohibf-
| rion are like tolshevisn in that each
| ! must conquer the world or die
throughout the world Reforms like
bicycle riders. topp1e over If they stop;
they must keep moving. If prohibit
= ton ceases 20 he militant, the anti
prohibition SITS will lead nfight agains
it,
n William Howard Tatrs recen
: article shows that even it's enforce
ment, in his estimation. should be ac
- compljshed in order to cause reac
. ton against It, II we can get stric
enforcement of bone-dry prohibition
= We will risk the reaction.
= Tho necessit? OF extending prohihi
ton Is twofold---in Europe and Soutf
3 America, because we are welding ou
: ideals and standards of morals ant
conduct with theirs eventually w,
t must reach one standard The in
| crcasinr unity Of social and intellec
tual life as well as the increasn,
- trade relations make II Impossible 70
. the civilized world to remain hal
drunk and half sober. as we found /
4 Impossible for a similar state of affair
- 10 continue in this country, one We
state was saturating the fringes o
e the dry states around II,
- Again : STA and Africa eithe
- prohibition must become part Of III
g missionary program, or that Who'll
- program becomes suscc ptihle of s>i
spicion OF insincerity. DR.. Mathews
g in the Methodist Times" OF London
=, January q. 1919, says. Two day
ate an intelligent, well read Christian
d citv man told me that nissionarie