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The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-02-12
CHAPTER v.
Bad Medicine.

The house at the horse ranch was a
-ong, low L-shaped adobe structure.
Two men were seated on the porch
playing seven up. One was Bad Bill.
the other Blackwell. AT sight of Curly
they gave up their game.
Hello, kid! Where did you drop
from" Cranston asked.
A muscle twitched in F1andrau's
cheek. ''They got Mac. Ran us down
near the Circle C. Mac opened fire.
They-killed him."
Shot him, orr" Curly was left to
guess the other half of the question.
"ShOt him and took me prisoner"
''They couldn't prove a thing, could
they?"
They could prove wounded Guilt
son. That was enough for them. They
set out to hang me. Later they
changed their minds"
How come you here? Did you es-
cape"
Nope. Friends dug up bail. Say,
soapy has been telling me that the Gull
hson kid is up here. I reckon we bet
Ter not say anything about my mixup
with his folks. I'm not looking for any
trouble with him."
All right, Curly"
curly sat down on the porch ana
told an edited story of his adventures
70 hem. Before he had finished
young fellow rode up and dismounted.
after he had unsaddled and turned his
pony into corral he Joined the others
On the porch.
Young Cullison had seated himself In
me chair next to FIandrau. He had,
10 Curly thought, strong family re-
SSembiance to his father and sister,
s'lll a boy in his ways, he might any
sdv receive the jolt that would trans
1orm him into a man.
!, curly studied the characters OF
eioSe present. Bill he knew already
.alfly we'll as a tough nut to crack
same to the core. and staunch to MS
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-02-12

ing my jeans. rye got to separate
myself from it or make my roll a
thousand"
The end of it was that both Sam
and Curly went. down to the corral
and saddled their ponies. To the last
the conspirators played up to their
parts.
According TO program. Sam sulked
for the first few miles of their jour-
ney. But before they reached the Bar
80 he grew sunny again.
I'm going to have talk with
Laura while I'm so near" he ex-
planned. "You drift in :. just hap
pen. along, you know. I'll stay in the
scrub pines up here. If the old man is
absent scenery, you wave your BAN
home give Laura the tip and she'll
know where to find me-"
The owner of the ranch, as it hap
pened, was cutting trail over by Aqua
Caliente,
do you want to see him very bad,
Mr.. Flandrau?" asked Miss aura
demurely
"No, I can't say I've lost Mr. Lon
don.'
'You inquired for him."
"Hmp! That's different. When i
used to come home from the swim
ming hole contrary to orders used to
ask where dad was, but I didn't want
to see him."
81 see. Did you just come down
from the horse ranch?'
you've guessed right
''Then I am sorry can't ask you to
light. Dads orders"
Anything in those orders about you
meeting one of the lads from the horse
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|
ranch up on the hillside where it is
neutral ground?"
did Sam come with you?" she cried.
"He's here. Oh, know he's here"
"What do 1 get for bringing good
news?"
81 didn't say it was good news"
"ShO! Your big eyes are shouting
| it,"
WAS that the news from the horse
rancho"
That's part of it, but there is more.
Sam and Curly are on their way to
Saguache to spend the Fourth of July.
Sam is going for another reason, but
I'm not sure yet what it is. There's
something doing I don't savez, some
big deal on foot that's not on the level
Sam is in it up to the hooks. He 10
supposed to be quitting Soapy's outfit
for good. But I know better"
White to the lips, she faced him
bravely. "What sort Of trouble is he
| leading Sam into?"
'I've got d kind of notion. But il
won't bear talking about yet. Don't
| tell him what I've told you, unless you
want to spoil my chance of helping
him."
81 won't" she promised; then added,
with quick eagerness: Maybe can
help you. I'm going down to Saguache
to visit on the Fourth"
"I'1l look you up. Trouble is that
Sam is bent on running himself. Seems
to think Soapy is his best friend. II
we could show him different things
might work out all right"
While she climbed the hill to Sam,
Curly watered his horse and smoked
a cigarette. He was not hired to
chaperone lovers. Therefore, it took
him three-quarters Of an hour to reach
the scrub pine belt on the edge Of the
park.
At once he saw that they had been
having quarrel. The girls eyes were
red, and she was still dabbing at them
with her handkerchief when he came
whistling along. Sam looked discOur-
aged, but stubborn. Very plainly they
had been disagreeing about his line Of
conduct.
The two young men took the trail
again. About noon the next day they
reached Saguache. After they had
eaten, Curly strolled off by himself to
the depot.
''Gimme a ticket for Tin Cup for this
evening. I want to go by the express"
he told the agent.
The man looked at him and grinned.
you're so darned active, maybe you
could get off No. 4 when she is fog
ging along sixty miles per. But most
folks couldn't. not with any comfort"
Meaning that. the flyer doesn't
stOp?"
"Not at Tin Cup"
'Have to take the afternoon train
them"
ST reckon" He punched ticket
and showed it through the window
toward Curly. "Sixty-five cents
please
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sCurIy plays sIeuth.

RIO ar coNr1NUED1
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
A Proposal
For the manufacture. sale and distri
button OF beers.

Resolved, That the following shall
become part OF the Constitution Of
Illinois: The manufacture, sale, dis
tribution and transportation within
this state OF beer and other malt liq-
uors and beverages containing not
less than four (49o) per ccntum nor
more than five so per centum OF
alcohol by volume shall be lawful.
For the purpose of regulating the
manufacture, sale and distribution OF
beer and other malt liquors and bcv-
eragcs as hereinabove defined, the
General Assembly shall pass appro-
pirate legislation granting exclusive
power, right and authority to cities,
towns and villages to issue and grant
licenses and supervise and regulate
places where beer and other malt lid
uors and beverages shall be manufac-
tured, sold and distributed. No such
place where said liquors or beverages
shall be sold or distributed shall be
CHuippSu Will Oily Ddi olHll llldll d
service bar not more than three feet
in length; and no license shall be is
sued or granted to any person or
persons for the sale and distribution
of such liquors or beverages who
shall be known to have engaged in
any gaming, or who shall be persons
of i'll repute, or persons of dssolute
regulations.
The General Assembly shall like
wise pass appropriate laws granting
power, right and authority to cities,
villages and towns TO hold and con-
duct elections for the purpose of Gre
ating and establishing local option
territory within any such municipali-
ties wherein the sale and distribution
of beer and malt beverages shall be
prohibited, provided, however, that no
such election shall be held unless
upon a petition containing the names
and addresses of not less than fifty
5000 per centum of the legal voters
who shall be bona hde residents of
the territory sought to be created as
local option territory.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
IT MAY BE SUMMER
Before Supreme Court Decides the
Rhode Island Case

Arguments before the Supreme
Court of the United States in pro-
ceedings brought by the state OF
Rhode Island to determine the valid
ity Of the Federal Constitutional Pro-
hibition Amendment will not be heard
before March g. This Is in accord
ance with an agreement between So
general King, acting for the
government. and the attorney-gen-
eral of Rhode Island. The agreement
was made because Of the large mum
Der of cases assigned for argument
Immediately. after the court recon-
venes on March L It is hoped to
have the question determined finally
before the court adjourns for the
summer.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
NOTHING IN 1T
State Board of Agriculture Punctures
Another Wet Yarn

Science has exploded another wet
canard. Newspapers have frequently
carried accounts OF animals as we'll as
men becoming intoxicated by imbib-
ing of the alcoholic content in corn
ensilage in silos. Especially since
Prohibition has become effective,
there have been numerous astonish-
ing tales of intoxication among farm
hands because of this ensilage fluid.
Now the Missouri State Board of
Agriculture announces that neither an
finals nor men can get drunk on ensi-
lage, because while a small quantity
of alcohol may be produced in silo,
it is almost at once changed to acetic
acid
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
Liquor Gone, Police =
Keep Out Of Trouble

There appears to be no further need
OF the police trial board since the de-
mise of John Barleycorn.
Members of the police force are
coming through clean" and keeping
out Of trouble since Demon Rum took
to the woods.
Today when the police trial board
assembled in the room Of the civil
service commission Harry Wallace,
the secretary, caused amazement by
announcing there was not a single
case on the call.
ITS the first time since the civil
service commission was organized
that no police cases have been on the
call" explained Mr.. Wallace. The
outstanding reason for this appears to
be Prohibition.
Most OF the members of the de-
partmcnt who got in trouble owed
their downfall to whisky."--Chicago
Evening Post, Jan. 2Sth.
Policing a city is like any other
job. When men are sober they are
more efficient. Chicago will soon
lose its old reputation and become
known as the most orderly large city
in the country.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
Vets Fight For
a Wet Congress
Also Seek Wet Planks in Party
Platforms

The fight for the restoration of beer
and wine is assuming more definite
proportions. The two points of at
tack most prominently apparent at the
lpresent time arc TO secure the election
of a Congress which will favor beer
and wine and to secure the adoption
of beer and wine plank in the Dem
ocratic and Republican national plat
forms. In copyright dispatch to the
Chicago Daily News, David Law
renee, writing from Washington, re-
Gently said:
Zone of the most powerful men in
the Democratic party informed me
that he saw no reason why either
political party could not go before the
people and ask them to elect a Con-
gress that would give the country
light wines and beer. His reasoning
is this:
THE constitutional amendment
which now is in force prohibits the
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
liquors. Just what is Intoxicating is
subject to individual Interpretation;
yet when Congress passed an enforce
ment act declaring recently that it
was unlawful to make or distribute
beverage containing more than one
half of | per cent of alcohol a test
suit was brought and the Supreme
Court of the United States was asked
to decide if Congress had the power
to say what constituted Intoxicating
beverages And the Supreme Court
decided that, no matter how much al
coho1 in any beverage was, i'll fact,
Intoxicating, when Congress fixed the
percentage by statute Congress word
was final.
Thus as many people contend that
rs beer is not Intoxicating it should
be perfectly possible for Congress to
fix the percentage at rs by law. And
if the American people want light
wines and beer they need only elect a
Us Congress- II Congress can say
that one-half of | per cent is not in
toxicating, it can also say that us
per cent is similarly non-intoxcat-
ing"
The fight to secure the endorsement
OF beer and wine by the Democratic
party is centering about the Cover
nors of New Jersey and New York.
Arthur Sears Heening, Washington
correspondent OF the Chicago Tri-
bune, on February wrote: Follow
ing the assertion of Governor Ed
wards of New Jersey. that he would
carry the fight on Prohibition to the
Democratic convention in San Fran
cisco, it was disclosed today that the
vets will appear also in Chicago in
a drive on the Republican national
convention for platform plank en-
dorsing the liberalization of the dry
law"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
Letter Shows Up
Old Propaganda
Official Denial of Wet Lie From
Great Lakes

Since the vets have revived the old
lie about whisky having been used
for "Au" at Army and Navy Training
the following letter from
Great Lakes station is herewith re-
published. Similar denials from other
camps were received at the time.
Office OF The Commandant,
U. S. Naval Training Station,
Great Lakes, Illinois.
November ,, 1918.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your letter OF Oc-
tobcr 81, 1918, you are informed
that the rumors circulated in re-
gard to extensive shipments and
use OF whisky as preventive of
Spanish influenza at this training
station are absolutely without any
foundation. AS a matter of fact,
alcoholic liquors are never used
as a preventive of disease, aud
the persistent circulation of the
rumors which have been current
in Chicago and in other sections
OF the country relative to this
matter is simply evidence of a
malicious form of propaganda de-
signed to embarrass the govern
ment in the successful prosecu-
ton OF the war.
1t is the patriotic duty of every
good citizen to put forth every
effort to trace the source of these
malicious falschoods to the end
that the responsibility for them
may be established and appro-
pirate and effective action insti-
tuted TO prevent further activi-
ties OF this character.
am glad that you brought
this matter to my attention and
thus afford an opportunity for a
statement of TACT to be made, to
the. end that the apprehension
which parents and others would
quite naturally feel may be re-
lieved.
1t may be added that the well
fare as we'll as the health OF the
boys entrusted to our care is a
matter of vital concern and that
no effort is lost to safeguard
them in every possible way.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) J. NJ. Grimes.
Lieutenant Commander
L. S. Navy (Retircd)
Acting Commandant.
Mr.. O. G. Christgau,
Editor The American Issue,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
WHISKY RULED OUT AS
MEDICINE, SAYS WILEY
(Hcrald Examiner, January 81,
1q20)

(Herald Examiner, January 81,
1920
St. Louis, Jan. 30.-Whisky
and brandy have been elimin-
atcd as medicines, il was said
here today by DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley, president OF the United
States Pharmacepeial conven-
ton and former chief of the
Bureau of Chemistry, Depart
ment Of Agriculture.
No mention of alcoholic liq-
uors as medicines will be made
in the next issue of the Amer
lean Pharmacopeia, which is
prepared every ten years, he
said. This was determined
upon, DR.. Wiley asserted, sew
eral years before National Pro-
hibition became effective.
Whisky, instead of an effec
tive remedy or preventive for
influenza, is a positive poison in
such cases, said DR., Wiley, add
ing:
"In only one instance would
I use whisky for an influenza
case, and that would be where
1 wished to hasten the depar-
ture to Heaven of the patient"
No serum has yet been found
to prevent influenza, he said.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
Liquor Kills Cllicagoan
Who Terrorized Steamer

New York, Jan. 29.-(Speeial)
William Manters, ~ years old
who is said to have come from
Chicago, terrorized the passen-
gers of the Ward line steamship
Mexico for four days while the
ship was coming from Cuba.
This morning just before the ship
reached quarantine, Manters died.
The ships surgeon said alco-
holic poisoning caused death.
Armed with a carving knife and
cleaver, Manters had chased the
kitchen crew out, smashed wood
work and furnishings, and injured
Herbert +. Cleary, steward, be-
fore he was taken by force to the
ships hospital Manters is said
to have told friends that he was
going to Cuba to get drunk.
The above item is from the Chicago
Tribune. 1t tells of the delights o
to Cuba and back again tc
he L. S. A. The editor OF the Trib
Inc having printed pink-fringed pre-
lictions of the future glories of Cub;
should not overlook this item. 1t will
give him a chance to go into an ed
orial delirium over the advantage.
If journeying to and from Cuba wher
lie becomes too drab and monot
)nous.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
DRINKS Vanish
From Our City
Where We Had Hundreds We Have
but Individual Gases Since Dry
Era; Police Report Revealing

DRINKS have become a sort of curl
osity in Aurora since Wartime Pro
hibition went into effect July /, last
according to the annual police report
which will be filed with the city clerk
within the next few days.
So DRINKS in Six Months
During the year 1919 there were
AS arrests for drunkenness and 30z
of these were between January | and
July !, the six wet months. During
the six dry months, July to Decem-
Der 81, there were only S. DRINKS
OF the s., the records show Al laid
their indisposition to cider. Another
dozen had tried drinking everything
from hair tonic to medcated alcohol
In 1918 1901 were arrested for
drunkenness-686 more than last year
And in 1917 LIS were laid low by
drink A goodly percentage of the
intoxicated men arrested in Aurora
before Wartime Prohibition went
into effect were men who came here
from dry territory.
Quietest Police Year
The report of the police chief will
show that last year was the most quiet
in police circles in the past Il years
The police arrested 1885 persons as
against 2,248 in 1918. There were
2,457 arrests in 1917.
(The above item, headlines and all
is from the Aurora Beacon-News
Aurora formerly had over 40 saloons
Recently an Aurora police captain in
charge of the station at night COM
planned to the editor of The Issue that
the nights are dreadfully long and
lonesome now.)
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
Soldier Defends A.E.F.
Against Booze Article

A writer to the Chicago Tribune
argued in favor of beer and wine. He
claimed to be a soldier. Several days
later the following answer appeared.
It's good patriotism and good sense,
too:
DRY Air; Chest Expansion
Dubuque, Ia, Jan. 16.-[Edito of
The Tribune. l-Sincerely~ trust the
readers of the w. G. N. will not take
O'Donnell's wet arguments as the A.
L. F. view. | also served overseas
and advise when an American soldier
made fool OF himself you could bank
on liquor as the cause. As one drink
means encore the logical thing is
Prohibition. Furthermore, if we elect
legislators we must abide by their
rulings or we are apt to harm our
selves, since unfair play is hanging by
ones own rope. Though Mr.. Wilson
was President when war was declared
was no reason why / should not go
because l was and am Republican,
and the same applies to the Prohibi-
ton law. Majority rules here, Mr..
O'Donnell, and if you don't like it go
to Cuba. You say the rich have
theirs. Good for us, since we are
men and need no stimulant to lead a
natural life. Could l have a seven
inch chest expansion if l drank?
Think it over and go with the modern
tide.
"Ben Kallis."
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
CLOSING THE JAILS
Chicago Evening Post)

field of hitherto production with satisfaction
decided falling Off Massachusetts, other the
mills which
tax-sustained institutions acted oage-houses
Druards dect and criminals manufactured large quani
Taunton Newburypot Fitch
be for buildings
High credit for this improvement but manly
high obriety
from the which
John Bareycon collect his
Massachusetts, would old ls and building
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
PATENT MEDICINES

Patent medicines will never become
popular as beverages. The youth who
yearns to have high old time and
feels the need of liquid encourage
mcnt will not be able to cultivate a
craving for the nauseous admixture OF
disagreeable tastes, and the old-timer
who accepts them ruefully IS a sub
stitutc will find in them a short cut
to the embalmer's parlors.
Eventually patent medicines con-
tanning a kick will clinch the nails in
Prohbition-Robert CULLEN in Satur-
day Evening Post.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
PRISON INMATES DECREASE

While the saloons Of New York City
were closed only six months during
1910, there was decrease of more
than IS per cent in the number of in
mates of the prisons in that city last
year as compared with the previous
year. The average daily population
OF the prisons for 1910 was 1857,
while in 1918 it was 4,202. The de-
crease is almost so per cent since the
high year of 1915 when the city's jails
housed an average of 6,416 persons.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13

On suggestion of American meat
packers, the president of Paraguay
has established a number of Prohibi-
ton zones in that country. This is
the first official effort for Prohibition
in Paraguay.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13

There is seldom question of the
constitutionality of a, law unless it
disturbs the graft of those able to
hire great lawyers. Robert CULLEN
in Saturday Evening Post.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
A Proposal
Defining Intoxicating liquors and
beverages.
Defining

Resolved, That the following shall
become a part of the Constitution of
Illinois: The manufacture, sale and
distribution, or the prescribing or dis
pensing OF any, liquor or beverage
containing more than five so per
centum OF alcohol by volume, except
for sacramental purposes solely and
only, is hereby prohibited.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13

The New York Post Standard is
of the opinion that About the tough
est job any lawyer ever tackled is to
persuade the Supreme Court that part
of the Constitution is unconsttu-
tional.'
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
State OF Illinois
Constitutional Convention
No. IT

l. Introduced by Mr.. Michal, Jan.
%, 1920.
,. Read first time, ordered printed
and referred to Committee on Dis
tinction Between Constitutional and
Legislative Subjects. Jan. % 1920.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13

The Chieans are aroused at the
heavy toll Of lives taken by the liquor
traffic in that country toll so great
that the FL Mercurio. Valparaiso, as
serts that it is impossible to exagger-
ate it.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
Vets Want Beer
in Constitution
introduced to Proposal in Convention

Two wet propositions have been in
troduced i'll the Constitutional Con-
vention at Sprinfeld. One of these
seeks to define Intoxicating liquors
and beverages, fixing the maximum at
five per cent. The other provides for
the manufacture and sale and distri-
button of beers.
The record OF these two proposals
and the complete text of each fol-
lows:
State of Illinois
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
State of Illinois
Constitutional Convention
No. 70

1. Introduced by Mr. Michal, Jan.
%, 1920.
,. Read first time, ordered printed
and referred to Committee on Dis
tinction Between Constitutional and
Legislative Subjects. Jan. %, 1920.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13

analyzed the know the liquor traffic. The
House Illinois probably had the known the
Jackpot legislature 1909 which Immediately followed the gis
lature that passed the local option law in 1907.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-02-13
Wet and Dry Records Of Legislators

third district Mr. Adelbe H. Roberts, made
splendid showing showing marked ability and loyalty the Law
and Constitution, and is entitled o reelection.
In the fifth district only favored the constitutional
vision enforcement OF the lawRepreentave Theodore
Long The fifth district should give solid delegation for law
OF the constitutional provisions the Hyde Parl
district of Chicago Representatives lgoe Democrat and Lyon
Republican, opposed the law enforcement