New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
h Theodore M. Knappen

single leap. Osners favored
the tapering of method.
r,,.ie Sam, the collective American,
,.o,. the latter. He took fifty years
"a Do it. and reached the zero yes
sefdag.
hitherto his efforts have been
ssvxrd gradually reducing his allow
,,ee Of alcoholic stimulants. Here
..tar his efforts will be directed
award keeping himself from falling
At the wagon. The long years Of
.pintion for legislative restriction,
REDUCTION and abolition Of the ma
toBsl booze allowance are over. We
lave become by constitution and law
nation Of teetotalers; now comes
he era Of keeping the resolution, q
rnolution of sort and magnitude
rever paralleled in history.
Prohibition has been written into
lie organic law Of the land. Is it
s he g dead letter, like at least one
oher amendment to the Constitu-
tics. or is it to be enforced to the
lit! And if all law officers every
where do their conscientious duty,
i the new law the sort of law that is
enforceable. or is it null and void
b fact, as King Canute's decree
against the tides? Time only can
answer the latter question authori-
atively, but there are plenty of men
authority who undertake to say
lat the law is enforceable and that
every effort will be made to en-
serce it.
Prohibition is not to be permitted
be the great national and inter
stional joke of the times, the most
alossal piece of massed hypocrisy
nee men began to have morals and
horal codes.
John Barleycorn is legally dead,
md the men, organizations and So
Ill forces that brought about his
aemise purpose to see that he is
hurled so deep and so securely that,
Aangh his animation be only sus-
peaded ard he shall turn in his tomb
WITH cenvulsive writings, it will
only be to accentuate the final and
supreme agony of one of the oldest
and most formidable of devils.
Plng rocks on the tomb of
Demon Rum are
First-The government of the Unit
ID States of America, acting through
specially established unit of the
Internal Revenue Bureau of the
Ifeasury Department and also
through the Department of Justice.
Second - The governments of the
issss and territories and all the
stal governments within them, act
ag through sheriffs, police forces
nd prosecuting attorneys.
fhisd-The powerful Anti-Saloon
league and nineteen other national
ND vigorous temperance and prohi-
Asicn organizations. all Of which
ave just concluded, under the name
u The National Temperance Council,
efsat conference in Washington
'seeally devoted to the considera-
VA cf the problem Of making pro-
i'e's'on real, universal, vital and
setive.
seniinally, we have had prohibi-
~ since July / last, even in those
ssslons Of the country that were not
sHady dry" by local enactment,
= M0se In the government and out
=" are charged or have charged
~suseiyes with the enforcement of
= AZ, now that the constitutional
Asnoment is effective, declare that
sax months are but the twi-
- TO the full day compared
u what Is to come.
@per a Teetotaler
national administration of
rehlbition act is in the hands of
sisds- Daniel C. Roper, Com
!. 'ensr Of Internal Revenue, is q
as teetotaler and prohibitions
g vas raised in a South Caro-
aty that hasn't had a saloon
~ borders for seventy-ave
he 10 an austere churchman.
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nss prohibition with re-
Sou personally prohibi-