Republican farmer., 1920-01-23


 18th or Prohibition Amendment still remain to be made by the anti-pro- hibition forces according to Hugh Fox, secretary of the United States Brewers Association here. The United States Supreme Court, he says. will adudicate them. They are: First, whether Congress has the right to define an intoxicating beverage" and second, a, decision as to the scope and l meaning of the provision that Con gross and the several states shall have concurrent power to pass ap- propriate legislation for enforce | Inent.''
 1 eff the Supreme Court he said 1 should finally uphold the right of i Congress to establish a definition of one-half of one per cent. for the purpose of enforcing national prohi- l bition, and that the states have no power in the matter, the effect would 1 be to put cider and many so-called 1 ''soft drinks under the ban. ] "Meanwhile,'' said MT. Fox, "the 1 known as the National Prohibition l Act, will, if sustained by the courts, | deprive accused persons of trial by i jury and make them prove their in- l nocence. No physician will be able l to prescribe alcohol in any form | without submitting to vexatious reg ulations which will take so much time and trouble that a busy doctor could not afford to be bothered with ] them.
 1 MT. Fox predicted that regulations ] to carry out the provisions of the act would prohibit the selling of appIi- l ances for home brewing or distilling, 1 and that Git is even doubtful if the 1 farmer will be able to turn his own | apples into cider, his own grapes into ! wine or his small fruits into cor dials.''
 MT. Fox contended that the Fed 1 eral Amendment specifically prohibits 1 intoxicating beverages and this was ratified by the states with the | understanding that it meant intoxi- | eating liquors and nothing else. l Whether the amendment can now eenlarged and extended by Con- gress under the guise of a definition. | is one of the issues which will have | to be adjudicated by the Supreme | Court he said, together with the scope and meaning of the provision i that the Congress and the several 1 states shall have concurrent power to pass appropriate legislation for the enforcement of national prohibition. {"
 MT. Fox paid his respects to the Anti-Saloon League by declaring that "fn opposing every attempt of the people to vote on the question of pro- hibition." it had completely reversed q it's first declaration of principles oi Americanfsm and Democracy cityAveSetaoinetaoin etaoinetaoine
 The Anti-Saloon League" he said
 began its campaign for state and national prohibition about 20 years ago. They started and continued un- der the cover of the slogans: Local
 Option. is another word for Ameri-
 canisnh and the first and last busi-
 ness of the Anti-Saloon League is to
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 abolish saloons Repeatedly at leg
 islative hearings and at local license
 elections, it's leaders declared thai
 they were not trying to force tota
 abstinence upon the people and that
 any locality that wanted the license
 system could have it, and that they were simply insisting upon the right of local and self-government in icens- ing and regulating the liquor traffic 'The movement began with 1oca option by townships and municipali. ties. However, when it was found
 that the latter were not easily per suaded to give a majority for no-li. } cense, prohibition was forced upor
 them through the device of county local option, which was designed, nor to permit a free expression of the sen- timent of each local community but I to overthrow it where need be. The str<tegy of the League was ! first to win the rural states and ther , to stif1e the opposition in the indus. trial states by capturing the rura
 units which controlled their Iegisla +I,; complished, the League has Tough bitterly against giving the people a large any vote whatever on the pro
 hibition question but has forced pro : hibition through by legislative enact ! ment.
 ''The Anti-Sa1oon League adopted the same tactics in it's congressiona campaign. Dry states and dry dis
 trlcts were easily persuaded to de mand dry congressman, and---as tn, recent vote on Daylight Saving &earl1 : showed--the urban representation ii outnumlbered two to one in botl houses of Congress. To secure tn. submission of the, National Prohbbi e tion Amendment to the Constitution was a simple matter, so far as Con $ gress was concerned. The adoption O : it by the state legislative bodies wa. aided largely by the war, which threw
 all Olner issues Into 1nSlgnlf1cance Many legislators voted for it as a wal |. measure, and many of the public st s understood it.
 8 "The War Prohibition Act, wficI Q was passed after the armistice hat been signed, as a rider to an Agri t cultural Appropriation Bill, was e breach of faith for which the Leagu, 0 was directly responsible. Congress i had agreed, in submitting the Consti
 
 . trade would have a years grace afte the Amendment was adopted, but un | der the lash of the Anti-Saloon Leagu, . | the Agricultural Bill was held up unti . a majority was secured for the adop ' ton of the prohibition rider by whicl 4 National Prohibition became immedi
 ately effective
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