Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-09
LABOR AND LIQUOR

LABOR AND LIQUOR
The Barstow Central Labor Council has resolved in
favor of liberal Interpretation of the Volstead law
that the manufacture of wine and beer be made
legal What the Barstow labor people fail to realize that
Interpretation of the Vosead legaize the
cure and sale of these two beverages for the reason that
their manufacture and sale would be violation OF the
Eighteenth amendment Of course you cannot legalize
violation of the constitution.
The only way that result may be attained by repeal
ing the amendment which is possible only in the exact
manner by which the amendment enacted namely by
era states and the ratfcaon by tWohrds OF the latter
The constitution since the Eighteenth amendment
adopted prohibits the manufacture and sale of noxcat-
ing liquor and wine and beer Intoxicating therefore
nothing that be done to the Felsead act will egaze
the making and selling of such liquor.
AT any rate labor, taken whole great suf-
ferer from the damnable liquor traffic the amendment is
intended to kill In the old days the saloon flourshed most
in the labor districts 1t in these places that many labor
troubles fomented The saloon the place where
labor agtators often hung out and when labor troubles
came 1t was frequent thing for the authorities to order
the saloons closed for the protection of society Now society
has ordered all saloons closed permanently and to talk
about restoring them the reinroducton of liquor as
legalized beverage is futile whsng down the wind.
Fortunately there many labor leaders and mil
lions of labor followers who we'll know this and who beeve
in keeping liquor where has been assigned by the latest
! constitutional amendment.
Congressman Frank Beavis of the First Nebraska dis
trict has declined to become candidate again for the
of assisting the prosecution of alleged frauds
When member ready do that while he has reelection
in his own he must be convinced there real
frauds be He the inside enough
through special committees upon which he has served to
give him kn0wedge upon which to base his suspicious One
arrest has already been ordered Georgia. looks
this had just begun.
William r. Hearst is being cordially received in Ger
he deserves to be- To be Germany didn't get
much help from America during the but the Germans
don't blame Hearst for that
Judge William Caffery of New York rallied at the
members of the Democratic Womans club he address
ing for filling the air with cigaret smoke Where there
much smoke there is likely to be fire.
significant incident the other day the Bald
win Locomotive works when initial shipment made
of 20 locomotives of order of 81 given by the Southern
Pacific road. They out TO the buyers pros
perity special and the delivery appropriately cee
stand 1t fine proof of rapid return to normally.
The Department of Labor continues to report that the
business conditions of the country keep improving 1t
will not be necessary to call attention to it much longer
Increased travel to Europe this is due largely
the that under the law the railroads longer
pay commission the travel companies for inducing
people to America first The steamship lines
commissions and they getting big business. This
policy should be reversed for the good Of all concerned
The Riverside Press points out that Long Beach, Full
leon Bakersfield and other California oil sections will
not have to bear the brun of producing the worlds oil
supply because South America has possible production OF
13 billion barrels But the Press has overlooked Colorado
shae which according to recent dispatch from Denver,
ready to yield all the oil the world will require in the
next thousand Meantime congress wrestling
with sudden Jump in the price by the octopus which has
evidently not heard of the true situation. -