Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-10-27
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The Constitution by the Eighteenth
Amendment now DEGREES that the
manufacture, transportation, and sale
of Intoxicating liquors for beverage
purposes is forever prohibited in the
United States.
Public sentiment which. made the
country dry is overwhelmingly in ia
vor Of keeping it dry. We have now
and will have a DRY" Congress. The
Prohibition Amendment was passed
oy Congress by vote of IS Ayes to
,, 20 Nos in the Senate and 282 Ayes
to 12S Nos in the House. This same
amendment was ratified by 46 States,
whose Legislators voted in favor of it
by ratio OF Z to l, which proves con-
clusively that the Nation is nearly un-
lnimOusly Dry This public senti-
nent, strong in the past in favor of
Dry Nation, has been made doub-
~ SO by the addition OF millions OF
women voters.
Quoting from an interview with Mr..
Vclstcau as reported in the Literary
Digest for December q, 1919, ''While
the wrathy friends of booze may pic
lure Mr.. Volstead as a wild-eyed, long
haired Zealot, who never took a drink,
| ina who would move heaven and
,arth to bar everybody else from joys
tlcoholic, the fact is, we are told,
hat the al thor of the Volstead Act
! ) bushy-haired, heavy
ray eyed, miid-mannered Congress-
| ,ia.i, who never made a prohibition
:peech in his life. never joined g tenn
1erance society, and never signed a
temperance pledge"
IN co.tra!t we know and assert that
ey y. j. kvale has always been
bone dry" He has talked, preached
nd worked for prohibition all his
! te
1t he's been claimed that the Judi.
AIRY Committee of which Mr.. Vol
tead happens to be chairman on &C
ount OF seniority, controls all pro
'btion legislation. It has been claim
Il that Volstoad controls this com.
tic. and that he alone on account
his position controls more than
1e-ffti: Of Congress. Capt Gilbert
y ne OF Fostead's political trumpeters
speech at Benson, Minnesota
tat2d, He Ont. Volstead) appoints
IL the members of the Conference
Committee" We present the facts
The Judiciary Committee is one OF
ONE sixty committees in each House
| II Congress. 1t is an important com
n.ttee but not the most important. II
composed of q members and they
must be spineless, indeed, if ONE
nan. even though the Chairman. con
>ro.s the majority, and we know that
MS Committee as a whole, is merely
SERVANT OF CONGRESS AMI
NOT IT'S MASTER. 1t is an absolute
ruth that VULSTEAD DOES NOT
CONTROL SAID, COMMITTEE, which
re admits as shown by the Court Re
ord of the Kvale-Volstead Trial al
Benson in July 1920 Mr.. Volstead
,elng under oath in the witness chair
quest on, las Chairman of the Judi
larry Committee that has the accept
1g Of the Bill, (The Graham Seditio1
'ill) if you thot that the bill was vi
!ous, or ought not to be passed AM
hade law, why didn't you as Chair
Aan, use your influence as Chairman
. bring out better bill?" Answer
simply called their attention t.
What I thot was Objectionable. Their
we're Il members of US, THE CHAIR
IAN CANNOT ALWAYS RUN OUI
;OMMITTEE.'
We further know that the Chair
nan of the Judiciary Committee doe
'ot appoint all of the members of tn
Conference Committee
1t should he understood and en-
ohasized that the immediate enforce
nent of the Prohibition Act rests wit
the Prohibition Commissioner, who's
authority is recognized by Mr.. Vo
stead, himself in letter dated Marc
md, 1920, as follows: Il have you
letter of the 28th ult.4 stating you ar
in need of alcoholic beverage as met
icine. Your physician can prescrib
/ in any case where he thinks it bent
fetal, any kind of alcoholic stimulan1
either whisky. brandy, wine or bee
"By~ getting a prescription for /
PINT OF ALCOHOL and diluting
yourself to any strength desired, Fl
greater amount of the BEVERAGE
can be obtained: SUCH PRESCRIF
TON 2CANsBE REPEATED EVERY
+ TEN DAYS. 81 sz5
The intention 81 the law 10 not c,
deprive any person ding alcqho