Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-11

torneys VINO said that they would
not start out unless you bought the
liquor and had it analysed and IT prov
ed to be more than II per cent. In
other cases they demanded that you
have the evidence Of the liquor itself.
And hundred other excuses were
made. We made up our minds thAf
we would get around that question 50
we wrote into that that any prosecute
ing attorney or any subdivision OF the
state, as well as an attorney general.
has a right to go into the United
States court and ask for an injunction
against any liquor business there is IN
that state. 1t works and it works 1ne-
We are making fight against all
wholesale permit holders. It is go
ing to be a question Of law. I'hope
we win that fight II we do 1000 OF
them will not be continuing after the
first of the year. Then there Is that
permit holder who gets 1t on certain
booze that he Is going to make, por-
ton Of which is unfit for beverage
use and not to be sold to persons for
beverage use and If you need evil
dence of those permit holders taking
out the liquor and using part for
legal purposes and the rest for bev-
erage purposes, nobody can get that
evidence better than yau can in the
state. When you get that evidence
send it down there and the provision
is, in the Volstead Act, to prevent that
holder from getting a new permit OF
revoke the permit he has. There arc
many patent medicines being used over
the state for medicinal purposes that
are used actually for beverage pur-
poses. The law says that they cam
not make or sell any Of those illeagl
propositions. first: Unuess they are I'M
fit for beverage use; second. If they
are unfit for beverage use and are sold
under conditions where the seller ought
to know that the purchaser is buying
it for beverage use. then he is violat-
ing the law. There are a whole lot
of things on the market that are sim
ply substitutes for booze and the Ma
tional Proprietary Association which is
the best part Of that class of men
who are making prohibitory medicines
for legitimate use, met in New York
City and Of their own motion passed
resolution to spend whatever money
was necessary to gather the evidence
against these men who are making pa
tent medicines and violating the Vol
stead Act. I have transcripts of the
dockets where in single court as
high as Is convictions have followed
for sale Hooke rino in one court of
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we will put that fake patent medicine
business clear sout of the country for
a good part of it is a fake, and give
those that are legitimate chance to go
ahead and do business as they should
Then we want you to turn forces on
this wet propaganda you have no
ticed in the last few weeks.
In closing let me say this, carry
out the program the League has out
lined. We are putting on a great
in the United States for
law and order. 1t is absolutely es-
sential for the perpetuity of this
nation. 1t is the foundation of all
our prosperity and our hope for a
great country in future years. 1t is
the law in it's solemn dignity which
gives you protection in all your
rights, your personal and your
property rights. You came to this
tonight not feeling that you
are going to be held up on the street,
not because of the policemen in CO.
lumbuS but because of the activities
of the law You will go home and
sleep sound not afraid you are going
to be murdered, not because there is
sheriff in the county but because
the law gives you it's protection, and
what man or woman who will ac-
cept the blessings of government
which gives you everything that you
have. and then will not stand for law
and order ought to hang his cor her
head in shame.
1t is the law that is going to make
this whole thing a. success, the en-
forcement of it that is going to bring
US through to final victory or we are
going to fail as a nation. Read the
published report of the Justice de-
partment of the activities within our
nation today Of lawlessness and if
you have any regard for our country
you will get into this campaign and
you will stand by this fight until the
laws of the states and nation are
fully enforced. We can do it by
carrying out the program such as
you have outlined here today.
Beer az Medicine Prohibited in 80
States
"The construction of the Volstead
Act by former Attorney General
Palmer permitting the prescribing of
beer as a medicine is not in accord
with the purpose of the law" said
Mr.. Wheeler in the course of his
address. 1.-THE law authorizes the
prescribing of whiskey. but only one
half pint in ten days with proper
safeguards. 1t was never intended
that beer should be prescribed as a
medicine.
None of the State Prohibition
Codes allow the prescribing of beer,
and Congress clearly did not intend
to attempt to legalize what the state
laws prohibit. Unless the opinion is
overruled Congress should amend the
law. 1t is difficult, of course, to over
rule it because the Government and
the brewers are on the same side of