Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-03
The Country Home
What About Prohibition?
BY MRS. w. I'll. FELTON,

Our tri-weekly readers will under
stand that the eighteenth amendment
Of the federal constitution was not
only passed through the congress OF
the United States by a three-fourths
majority, but forty-five of the forty
eight states subsequently ratified the
amendment and Georgia was among
the early ones to ratity-by the gen.
eral assem- bly-in session as the law
directs. That would seem to be quite
enough to silence opposition and TO
clear the United States of the max
ing and selling of intoXicants Pre-
viouS to the ratification of this pro-
hibition amendment, the internal rev.
enue system was hand-in-glOV with
the bonded United States warehouses
where liquor could be stored for sew
eral years, to mellow with age, and
the United States government obtain
ed a revenue from this bonded liquor
when sold. When whisky could be
retailed at 50 per gallon, the federal
authorities received something like
30 cents for it's share-as a partner.
This alliance between the federal
government and the liquor makers
grew out of the devastation of the
civil war of the SOS. 1t was only
brought the United States to the
edge of bankruptcy. But it survived
the Civil war. The prohibition
amendment was fought from star;
to finish by the makers and sellers
of liquors.
The congress of the United States
voted out this lawful curse on the
lives of mothers and their children
The government was obliged to cut
itself loose from this wicked part.
nership that debased the homes and
the lives and the happiness of the
aI,s I-1 80 l. l.. L.
the men, women and children-num-
bering more than one hundred mil
lions of people in this American re-
public.
1t was a long contest. 1t was g
very bitter one. The gains of the
liquor sellers were immense. 1t
made these men more rich in money
and powerful in politics. They fought
to the last ditch! After the prohi
amendment became an integral par
of the supreme law of the United
states-a faction came forward t.
ratified by the aforesaid forty-fiv'
states, faction came forward t
make the United States as wet al
| the Atlantic ocean.
New Jersey presented the wet
| candidate to the national Democratic
| convention, assembled as Frisco, anC
| the convention would not swallow
such a candidate "in the raw" New
ing of the liquor forces-to contro
the politics of this country.
There is a united effort to cleo
| to congress, men of the wet" va
riety. Therefore, we find liquor can
| didates in many counties for sucl
offices as sheriff and those who car
| hinder the proper enforcement O.
| this prohi-amendment.
| We have all the law that anybod,
could ask for, to prevent the illici
| making and vending of these dread
| full intoxicants. The law-enforce
| ment is the place where the con
| spiracy prevails. by reason of tn,
| failure of sworn officials to enforc,
! the law
When tell you that have in
formation from reliable sources tina
there are thousands Of Illicit stills
| where corn and corn meal are turn
ed into sour mash (and corn SELL
| now at So per busheD that syrup i
bought and sold to sweeten tn,
| whisky mash; hundreds of persons
are hauling in hundreds of gallons
of this devils broth by night to b,
sold and shipped at fabulous prices
| ask the readers of the Tri- Week..
| Journal to wake up-and look arount
and see "where we are atv'