Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-11-03
MILO IS VEXED

MILO is VEAED
Milo Reynolds, who confesses to the
fact that he is an advocate of prohlb-
ition, and still "howls for prohibition
seems to resent the fact that the Regis
ter associates his name with the beer
keg for championing the cause Of James
E. Kennedy, who favors beer and wine.
Why should he? If he backs the plat
form of a candidate who campaigns on
the slogan that I'VE want beer" he
must be somewhere in the vicinity Of
the keg.
The whole idea is that win rouge and
koenigsbier prohibitionists like the ed
itor of the Clipper close their eyes 10
the fact that the beer and wine they
advocate, and the beer and wine Mr.
Kennedy refers to in his eloquent ap-
peal to the good sense of the voters, IS
not prohibition beer 1t is beer, real
beer, Intoxicating beer. When Milo
stands up for the Eighteenth Amend
ment and at the same time calls for
real beer, he sanctions a notification
of the very principle that he claims 10
ardently advocate
Any beer that will satisfy the Am
erican people, any beer that is any diff
ferent from the beer we now have, is
an Intoxicating beverage, Anybody
knows that. In order to give the peo-
pie of this country a beer that would
in any way stop the bootlegging, il
must have alcoholic content sufficient
to register kick Mr. Kennedy
knows that. We all do. A modihca-
ton of the Volstead act that may al
low two per cent. alcoholic content
or three per cent. content, wont help
matters any. 1t won't placate the Am.
erican people. 1t won't stop bootleg
ging. 1t will not satisfy any more thar
does the definition OF Intoxicating bev'
erages as it exists in the enforcement
law of today.
No, indeed, to accomplish what Ken
nedv advocates you have got to eros!
the line and allow a beer with con
tent so far above the present day
"Foolish beer" that it could hardly b'
recognized as prohibition beer This il
the beer that Mr. Kennedy mean
when he makes his plea This is thu
beer that Milo advocates, and yet hi
stands up and says that he IS still
"howhng for prohibition
No Milo if you favor the pTohibitory
law, if you really and truly believe il
the spirit of the Eighteenth amend
ment the only honest course is to stanc
by any enforcement law that interpret
the spirit of the Amendment which j
as dry as a bone-and then work 70
its enforcement If the law cannot b.
enforced, if it is absolutely impossible
for the American people to stand by
principle that is part of the organi
law of this great land, then the troubl
is with the Eighteenth amendment, an,
not with the Volstead act
The Burlington Clipper volunteer
the information that the booze question
was settled with the adoption of til
Federal Prohibition amendment, ad
ding, "the enforcement of which all goo
people stand for" The Clipper is dis
satisfied with the wholesale smugghn
of liquor, the innumerable illicit still,
the demoralizing bootlegging Tn
Clipper would do away with inici
traffic and sale and manufacture b
"more liberal enforcement laws" Sure
ly that is easy Bootlegging, illici
manufacture, etc, can be lessened b
allowing lawful sale of the real goods
But what would become of your Eigh
tenth amendment: The Prohibitio
amendment does not admit of liberal
ity. It isn't built that way.