The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-12-29
sToP! LOOK! LISTEN!

You people who are tampering with
home brew;
You people who talk OF my boot
Logger;
You little women who go about the
living room shaking a cocktail mixer;
You editors who are trying to make
the law a lie by bringing back wine and
beer and the beer saloon;
You politicians who want the old
saloon back because you think you
need it in your business;
What are you doing?
When your daughter goes down tho
street after dark her safety depends
upon the law and the respect of the
people for the law
Your property your house, your
business. your bonds, your bank, de-
pend wholly upon the law for protec-
ton.
Your wife goes around the house in
contentment and confidence during
the day because of the law.
Your children play around the house
and the school and pass through the
streets safely because the law watches.
Everything that is in and of America
everything that is worth while in the
life of every individual in the United
States-rests squarel4 upon the basis
Of law and order.
You can't destroy the prohibition
law, you can't ridicule and oppose the
eiiiot ss~-~.ant of that law, without strik-
ing directly at the safety Of your wife
and daughter. the security of your chill
dren, and the stability OF your property.
interests.
Prohibition is part Of the basic law
Of the United States. 1t is a stone in
the foundation. There is only one way
in which 1T can be gotten out of that
foundation without wrecking the struc-
ture and that is by due process of re-
peal.
The fathers who gave us this glori-
Gus country-George Washington,
Thomas jefferson, Madison, Ben
Franklin, John acknowledgements
bow the prohibition law should be put
into the Constitution. They said, IF
certain things are done in certain ways,
they must be accepted by the entire
people"
They made it hard to make changes
and they expected their children to ac-
cept the changes that were made ac-
eording to the agreed plan of making
them.
That plan is the bond of our union,
the only thing that holds our people |
and our states together. Destroy it, |
convince the nation that the people no
longer believe in the rule Of the major
ity, let the people begin to think that it /
avails nothing to, exert the effort nee
essary to cause the submission of a |
amendment nv two
thirds of Congress and its ratification /
by threefourths of the legislatures. let
them think that there is a minority |
who Will hold that verdict in contempt !
and the rule of the ballot breaks down
In the country, with unlimited possibfli- /
ties of chaos in prospect.
There are enemies OF the American /
of American law, OF i
American society," at work among us I
today The Bolshevik, the anarchist, +
the man who wants to destroy all ex-
listing social compacts, is here. If he /
you men who made money for /
the first time during the great war
while sons OF prohibition mothers We're
making the world safe for democracy,
will hear the mob rapping at your door,
will see your women covering in the
darkest corners of the house viii see
your newly acquired wealth ripped
from your pockets to feed the greed of
anarchy. Only one thing stands be-
tween YOU and that-the Constitution
and the law
Take your choice, but remember what
the breakdown of the law win mean to
you personally.