Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-15
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
What Liquor Men Will Do.

MT. Editor: A saloon keeper residing and doing business not far from Oneco, has been compeIled-owing to thous- ands of foolish questions put to him ito post this sign: Don't ask me what I am going to do after July l, next"
 I believe, that that little sign has a 1 mighty big meaning. In the first place that saloon keeper shows that which he has no control and is going to do just exactly as the law directs. 1 God alone knows how that will be, for the history of official Washington the 1 past four years has proven beyond a l shadow of a doubt that no man on ! earth can foretell what fool prank is l to be played next. When a man asks this same saloon keeper what he is to do after January 1. 1920, he can answer l of the United States" and that is l what they will all do.
 | One man comes along and asks, 1 What is the supreme court to do 1 about prohibition ?''
 1 He can be easily answered. Moth l ing. The supreme court, even though that body has great power, has no power over the constitution of the United States.
 AuOliiel le!loW dShSs bo you sup i pose they will let us have light wines
 and beer?" Most empnatically, no! The constitution through the 18th t,smenGnlent says no wines, beer, etc. .SAaII be made. No. 3 comes along and says, As long 2s it is made t will '0e sold Very true, but ''it'' is not being made. It" is 5eLas drank up.
 Eto. 4 comes along and says, Every one of them prohibitionists has got his cellar full" So much the better for the prohibitionist.
 The next fellows says, "The doc tors will have gold mine issuing pre- l scriptions." That contingency will bt taken care of.
 Another chap says. Everybody vii
 buy patent medicines containing mucE
 alcohol" That will pc attended t, ! by a ruling already mace that sucl
 medicines must" not may" contain
 some drug that will cause i'll
 ness # too large doses are taken One popular 47 per cent. medicine i , already adding Is per cent. epicac Some drunk that will build up in fellow
 , The whole matter is that no one ha got kick coming if there are state
 1 where a referendum Is required il state legislation, that has nothin whatever to do with the constitution of the L. S. and it's many amendments . The dear peepul," as ". J. B. used t } say, were caught asleep. They wer , awakened on a stormy night with tn . house aflre and no pants Gn. The T have had it shown to them plainly tha
 the men they elect to office must b
 told in advance what they wish doa'
 or they will do as they please.
 Our Connecticut men voted ooth i
 Washington and Hartford as the 2 knew their constituents wished ther < to. If other states representative S did differently. theE other states hay e a lower grade of representatives. Even in one town the delegation t z Hartford was divided, but the voter = knew that would be so when they wer o elected
 n Prohibition will go into force nez
 January. with a record for unanimit, h unequalled by any other act in this ( f any other country on earth. In faC f it was almost unanimous. Lawyer out for the dough as they always ar will take the case of liqcpr men if the II have one for them to lle, and vi n make a big fght--;as long as the mene = keeps coming-but the man, men, if country that interferes with the COT
 stitution of the |. S. will have burne 4 flngures if they go 100 far.
 No one knows this better than tf
 liquor men who are all getting rea6 |" to join in singing a new national al e them January next, the first. last. al
 middle line of this anthem will b, ,e How Dry I Am"
 e c. B. MONTGOMERY. n Packer, Conn.,, April l., 1919.