The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-18

F'N HlN' i' FN'f 'N A''' 'N'f 80 Or
majority has been increased. ut
times running seven TO ten tlmcs "a
large as the first time.
This was strlkinEly proved by
Michigan, which voted dry the first
time by GS, 10000 ana then r~cpudiatci
u beer proposition In the spring OF
1874, following about u years test
OF prohibition. by "a dry majority OF
goo, 600, Notwithstanding the fact
that the liquor interests Of the on
tire country made n special effort
10 use Michigan ns a formal pro-
test ana convincing proof of ire
action against national prohibit
ton.
The traffic has fought cvery inth
of the way. II spent millions, ~ II
saw what was coming. 1t lost the
little bit OF whisky-foggod intrlll.
Ecnco It possessed as the danRet
became imminent, and ran wild In It's
last-minute attempts to avert the
inevitable. Against John Harley
corn proved a Stacker in a fight and
a traitor 10 his friends. Instead OF
giving strength and Intelligence to
his proponents he added hopeless
~ such brains as they had.
The official findings on the tcstt-
mouy taken before a sub-commlt-
tee Of the committee on the judici-
ery OF the United States senate in
1919, and printed I'm the Congress
sloual Record Of September 3, 1919,
shows that In their effort 90 head
or the prohibition they admitted
vas coming the liquor interests had
made u survey OF practically every
state ana undertaken TO inauEuratc
a reign of terror; that business men
and politicians who dared to oppose
the traffic were hlacklistcd and
hoyCottod by them, that they were
active in politics, often in violation
of law, that they attempted to sub
sidizc the public press, ana em-
ploycd supposedly dlsintorcstcd per
sons to advocate the trade.
did this look as though the were
asleep ct the switch white the drys
stcnlthily crcpt into congress at
Washington and then as stcalthily
, crcpt into the legislative halls OF
- states and pat an amendment 10
the constitution over ON them and
their innocent followers?
Liquor Interests In Politics.
The eighteenth amendment wa
written into the constitution OF tn,
United states with more organized
OPPOSITION against a. than hud boon
brought to bear against the adop-
ton OF any other clause. Tho
liquor traffic was cutrunchcd I'm
pollics, Tho recent statement of
the wet nulllticatiuuists that they
are going TO follow tho lead of IN,
drys and 'go into politics has
caused many a broad grin to spread
over the visage of even the politi,
can infant in arms. livery saloon
In the country was "a pulitiCa.
stronghold. Every ward loader OF
the Tammany typo was "a rooter tol
the saloon and for the vice and
gambling interests which conferred
around tho saloon. Every CRATER
and %corrupter OF youth, every shys.
ter lawyer who fattcnod ON the In.
nocent victims OF blackmail ant
and other Infamous underworld
practices which were wrapped
around the liquor traffic and whicl
he pulled when his victim proveJ
ob]stroperous,
The drys went into politics be.
cause the liquor traffic vas there
and II was necessary to go there &c
get a: It.
II has become the fashion OF
antl-prohibitionists in lieu OF argu-
mcnt to say that prohibition was
put over while the boys were IN
France" The congress which voted
for the submission 90 the eighteenth
amendment was elected In the talI
OF 1919, with this question an is
sue In every dtstrict-hefore this
country entered the war-boforc a
single man had been drafted