The Winslow mail., 1920-01-23
We Are ''Dry" For Good.

The United States is today nation
the constitution of which prohibits the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors, except for certain closely de
fined purposes and under rigid regu-
lations as to those purposes.
The law putting prohibition into eff
feet declares unlawful the manufac-
ture or sale of any beverage contain
ing one-half Of one per cent or more
Of alcohol; declares places where liq-
uor is sold in violation of the law q
common nuisance, abatable as such
seach and seizure powers are given
prohibition enforcement officers, ex
ings, but even private dwellings may
be searched if used in part as places
of business or if there is good reason
to believe they are being used as
places of illegal sale of intoxicants
liquor seized is to be destroyed vehi
cles and other property employed in
the sale of illegal intoxicants to be
sold and proceeds paid into the United
States treasury; advertising Of liquor
by any method is prohibited; permits
may be had for home manufacture
for personal use, of notwithstanding
elders and fruit juices, the term non
intoxicating is defined by the law to
IoJ Of
cent of alcohol; permits mey be grant
ed for the manufacture of alcoholic
liquors for sacremental and medicinal
purposes, under restrictions; permits
may be granted for the manufacture
Of alcohol liquors for industrial and
scientific purposes; possession of in
lowed if it was purchased before the
law went into effect at one minute
after twelve o'clock this morning
physicians are prohibited from pre-
scribing alcoholic liquors for their pa
tents unless in good faith they be-
ieve it will afford relief for some all
nent, and not more than one pint can
be prescribed in one month for one
person. Not much hope here for a
prescription" doctor or drug store
hat would like to be a successor to a
saloon.
1t can be seen at glance that the
'aw has teeth of the sharpest sort
While state laws may be diregardeo
sometimes. because Of local preju-
1ices or influences we all know thai
he federal laws are drastically Ell
'orced, without regard to expense G.
enforcement Should it cost the fed
eral government a million dollars
punish man who has sold a pint O
intoxicating liquors, the million would
De spent.
This condition has been brought
bout by an agitation started by Me
Dow in Maine, not more than life
ime ago. The prohibition party, which
probably did as much harm as good
o the cause of prohibition, was organ
zed in 1869. The Woman's Christian
Temperance union came into exist
9nce in 1874, and from that time or
vas the greatest active force making
or prohibition in the states and IN |
he nation, The state of Maine adopt |
I'd constitutional prohibition ten years
ater.
But the movement did not assume
eally formidable proportions until |
he railroads and big manufacturing /
plants began crusade agains the use .
If intoXicants by their employees |
About the same time strong agitation
the southern states to take away |
ruinous temptation from the negro |
became general, and practically every |!
southern state soon joined the ranks |
)f prohibition, under the leadership OF |
Kansas, where enforcement was actu-
lily attempted, as it seldom was liz
Maine
Then the colleges took up the sub
iect and began to give out startling
lata regarding the effects of alcohol !
IN children. on disease, on promotion
of crime and poverty. The question