The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-04-12

pfess has to say on prohibition. 30
the Literary Digest, March. sisao).
The navy has voted for prohibition
!. by Kicking rum overheard
The army has voted for prohibition
by oatiawing booze" and Hisniacani
here, are the words OF Major Genera
Leonard Wood, who while praisina
prohibition, at banquet in Chicago
about year ago, referred to II as
Gods own blessing" for the army and
further stated that so per cent of the
vice was on the heels OF rum
Extravaganza and criminal waste
have voted for prohibition and frankly
confesses! Il have been a big sinner
all these years. wasting tons Of food
! stun for the manufacture of liquor TO
! wreck the bodies and damn the souls
abroad. and other millions shiver in
the cold and beg for bread"
The home has voted for prohibition.
declaring John Barleycorn to be THE
Champion Home Destroyer"
Prospective wives have register I'd
a positive vote for prohibition in their
declaration, Wanted sober hus-
band"
The Anti Saloon league, represent
ing about twenty-five million church
members, has voted for prohibition in
these words THE saloon must GO"
The courts have voted for prohibit
ton, in that they have sustained the
will Of the people. and in the words
Of former Justice Hughes. in giving
the Rhode Island case Knockout
blow. The bill OF complaint should be
dismissed"
He'll has always voted In favor Of
rum, but heaven is prohibition city,
and over it's portal hangs a sign, read
Ing thus, No drunkard shall enter
this kingdom"
Virginia voted for prohibition Sep
TENDER %, 1914, at which time seven
ty-one Of the one hundred counties and
sixteen Of the twenty cities, put the
old Dominion on the prohibition
! honor rolf by about 10000 majority.
Before national prohibition was
adopted, thirty two states. represent
ling COZ per cent of the countrys pop
tnlation. and 87.S per cent of the coun-
try's area had voted for prohibition.
More than loo, 900. 900 people live in
the forty five states which have rati-
fed national prohibition.
only three states, Connecticut, New
Jersey and Rhode Island, having
total of 5,004.05 population refused to
ratIfy the prohibition amendment:
100000 opposing what 00,000,o00 did
through their representatives and vet
the enemies OF prohibition howl, Let
the people rule
The large influential and populous
states have ratified the very ones
which the vets declared would refuse
to ratify,
All of this has been done within
fourteen months and one week after
congress passed the submission reso-
luton. notwithstanding the states had
seven years in which to ratfy the
amendment.
!.
was ever ratified by so many states in
SO short time.
This proves the popularity Of pro-
hibiton with the people and their re-
solve to share in its benefits,
In the forty-fve states which rati-
fed the aggregate vote in the senate
was. for ratification 1898 against ratt-
tcation 2I3. The aggregate vote il
the house of forty-five states was, for
ratification 3.737 against ratification
1874.
This shows in the senate's aratio Of
eighty-five to fifteen, and in the
houses a ratio Of eighty to twenty in
favor OF ratification
In the words of The Missionary"
{Washington). official organ of the
Catholic Missionary Union, The pro-
hibition amendment is not the result
of snap judgment, any body with any
sort of political sense could hIve seen
for many years that IL was inevitable,
Nothing in the political life of Amer
lea came with more inevitable de-
cisiveness after an agitfNion extend
ing throughout & generation" Indeed
the people as q whole" have voted
overwhelmingly in favor of prohibi-
ton.
PROHIBITION "PUT OVER
WHILE THE ARMY WAS GONE
ters that prohibition was put over
against the wishes of the people while
the army was gone, thus taking ad-
vantage of our absent soldiers to ram
this framed up" eighteenth amend
ment down the throats OF an ignorant
deluded public. Such an augment as
this Is a cowardly insult to the purity
and nobility OF our American soldiers.
Listen to what General Pershing re-
Gently said, about our war heroes. IN
an address delivered at the annual
convention of the Southern CONNER
cial Congress, Savannah. Ga:
But our young men, both at home
and abroad won other victories. Their
cheerful acceptance of the rigor Of
military discipline, their patience in
training, their fortitude in combat.
were all that you in your pride and
love of America could desire. No body
Of troops taken into battle In a foreign
land far from the guidance and the
influence of their homes were ever in
spired by more lofty ideals. Their
abstinence and morality gained for
them the unstinted praise of our allies
and returned them home to you IN
heath. Your sons carried into SER
! vice the chivaIrous spirit OF the South,
which Ia your boast and that of your
fathers before you"
Think you such soldiers were all
friends of booze? 1t is rank AFRO
gance for every opponent of soberity
and decency to assume that all of
, these soldiers, thousands of whom
were reared in God fearing homes.
would have voted in favor of the sa-
loon had they not been deprived Of
the opportunity Listen again to
what THE Missionary" Ca leading
Catholic paper), says on the subject:
prohibition is an expression Of the
will of the American people. II is the
law of the United States. It is AN
amendment to the constitution broug ut
about by the same legal means as all
other amendments. 1t is the work of
all the people. by their representa-
tives, and not Of the homestayers in
opposition to the soldiers. Men in
places of influence might be engaged
In better business than trying to
drive a wed9e between the army nd