Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-01-16
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spending vast sums for publicity,
hoping thereby to create sentiment
unfavorable to Prohibition and Law
ENFORCEMENT, we must therefore by
publicity counteract their efforts.
We must keep alive sentiment at
home which makes for law enforce
ment, stntiment backing our public
officials.
BECAUSE they have orgagnized in
''twenty-four States and are now hard
at work to defeat National Constitut-
ional Prohibition by undertaking to
elect men to Congress who will rtfuse
to provide the proper machinery and
funds for the enforcement Of the law,
The National association opposed to
Prohibition with headquarters In
New York, boasts that they have one
million dollars at their disposal to
undermine. and disannul tht eighteen
tn amendment. 1t is rumored that
some five hundred distillers in this
this country have pledged another
billion dollars to make the Prohib-
ition amendment unsatisfactory. Mr..
Elihu Root, one of the formest law
yers and politicians of>the country
who has been employed by the liquor
interests, openly and definatly makes
the declaration that the only way
around Constitutional Prohibition is
to nullify the law which carries IL
into affect. This position is charac-
teristic of the lawlessliquor business
that financed German-American Al
lance, that carried on the German
propaganda when our boys were In
the trenches. Now is the time for one
hundred per cent Americans to stand
for and uphold the sovereign law Of
our country, to teach It in our schools
and proclaim it from the pulpits.
The Constitution must be sustained
our.aws enforced, our officers, legis-
lators and executives upheld by everp
loyal patriotic American.
BECAUSE We have in our country
a large foreign element unacquanted
with our laws and not speaking our
language These must be American
ized. Literature will be published In
their language and speakers will be
employed to address them in their
own tongues seeking to educate these
people not only as to the provisions
of the Prohibition law, but also In
the principals of citizenship; seeking
to make them one hundred per cent
The missionaries representing the
great evangelical denominations are
alarmed by the fact that brewers OF
this country have gone to China and
Japan and other mission fields, and
have bought govtrnment land, and
are erecting great brewerfes and dis
tilleries to 'debauch the natives and
it is the conviction of our mission
aries that it is harder to contend to-
day with liquor traffic than with
heathenism.
Three million Chinese have petit
ioned their government to prohibit
the American brewers from coming to
their country. Shall it now be cursed
by the liquor forces, driven out Of
our country, without a solemn pro-
test and supreme effort to extend a
helping hand to our brethren, who
are helpless in the face Of this pow
erful and persistent enemy Of the
home, of the church and of modern
civilization? All of the leading re-
ligious denominations are prepar-
ing for tht largest missionary pro-
gram ever conceived, and unles we
throttle the liquor business, 1t will
in large measure, nullify the work
of the denominations.
BECAUSE Prohibition is no longer
simply religious question, it is no
longer moral question, 1t is no long
er political question. 1t is all Of
these and more it is an economic
question. The biggest business men
of the nation have learned that bus
mess, from the viewpoint of the en-
ployer and employee, is better under
the Prohibition regime, therefore.
for business reasons, the work of the
League must be continued. We are
expecting every loyal American to
assist us, every man who would aid
in religious, moral, POLITICAL andec-
onomical welfare Of this country
and the world.
Am I my brothers. keeper?"
No man liveth or dieth unto
himself" -~ " ..s..
You and I are part Of this great
nation, and each of us has an obli-
cation to every other one, and our
nation grows greater only as every
man does his duty. Our nation, whom
God has SO richly blessed. cannot ise,
late itself, it has duty to other ma
ticns. We must perform it.
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