The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-02-16
PROHIBITION AND REBELLION
(By NJ. H. j.

prise the triumvirate that would
block the advance of civilization and
relegate the world to barbarism.
These three are restless under
the restraints of government.
They are the arch enemies of the
race And whiskey is not a whit be-
hind the other two as a destroyer of
the public peace.
The first insurrection against our
government was inspired by whiskey.
Our first President, than whom no
man who ever lived had a more lust
conception of constitutional govern
ment, put his heavy, authoritative
hand upon Shedd's rebellion, and it
died the death of the ass.
Prohibition has been solemnly af-
fixed to our constitution, irrevoc-
ably and inexorable as death itself /;
but the sons of perdition will do their
utmost to thwart the will of the peo-
pie and undermine the fundamental
law. Eighteen organizations are now
conspiring to break the 18th con
stitutiOnal amendment.
Our American Christian common
wealth slowly and inevitably. center
cd its thought upon that purpose
throughout a lustrum of fifty years
and the law will stand while the Re
public endures.
No lean and thirsty loafer shall
}ay unhallowed hands upon the ark
of our liberties; we are free and
shall remain free of that worldwide
curse.
Conspirators have undertaken to
attack the law from a new direction; /;
they propose the sanction of state
referendum, which they will carry to
the congress in the expectation of a
verdict in favor of free liquor.
The ghosts of Calhoun, jeff Davis,
and Yancy will gather around the
corpse of John Barleycorn in the
hope of a speedy resurrection; but
at will be an Irish wake only, and
the defunct will remain under
ground to avoid a bad smell.
Old Copperbelly in broadcloth here
in Hays with his ample girth, heavy
jowl and broad grin when the cup of
wine is poised in his hand and goeth
down smoothly-it is his fancy and
boast that prohibition is a fraud; but
when the rum roses in his cheeks are
the ruddiest, the plain clothes man
will come along and take him by the
scruff of the neck and march him off
TO eat his dinner on a pewter plate.
Many things are in store for the
bootleggers and swallow-tails who
think they are above the law.
Following the whiskey rebellion,
during Washington's administration,
the next attempt to oppose and
trample upon orderly government
was undertaken by John c. Calhoun
"a hard-headed old traitor of South
Carolina, the father of secession and.
rebellion. 1t was called nullIfica-
ton, a supposed softer word for
treason. Old Hickory in the White
House, told Calhoun and his bunch
that if he persisted in the notion
that South Carolina ranked Uncle
Sam, he would hang them like rats
before the capitol.
Matters quieted down for awhile,
till jeff Davis, old Bob Toombs of
Georgia, and Bill Yancey put their
heads together in 1861 and said that
they could turn the trick. They got
q hint at the first battle of Bull Run,
which hev didn't take-a ''fireeater'
Law on that battlefield mortally
wounded and with his last breath,
asked God to forgive him for having
gone into that wicked rebellion; four
wears after ''Uncle Bobby" Lee put
on his best clothes, made a formal
call on General Grant and offered
his sword if he would close the game.
Kaiser Bill was the last man TO
undertake to prove that our Uncle
Sam does not amount to anything.
Now, fellow citizens, we've got
large immigrant population IN tins
country. which doesn't know much
about the iron hand within the glove;
encouraged by our native sons, they
have agreed among themselves that
they can lift a barrel of whiskey,
hold it at arms length and suck the
barrel dry from the bunghole.
Do you think they can do 1t? Il
don't know what you think about
prohibition; but you can safely stake
all YOU are worth on this-that If 1t
comes to the pinch, twenty million
men within twenty-four hours Will
spring to arms to make Uncle sam