The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1922-12-07
! of Denver declared that if Prohibition

of Denver declared that if Prohibition
were put to vote 90 per cent of the bush
ness men who voted against it would
now vote for it, Mr.. James Duncan, the
Labor leader, declares that Mr.. Com
pers' opposition to the Volstead act
does not represent the 100000 mem
bers of the American Federation of La
Dor. The testimony of the AntiTuber-
culosis Society and that of the head of
the Battle Creek Sanitarium and that
of long list of Associated Charities
and Welfare Societies brings the con
clusion that 1.-The enactment of the
Prohibition amendment was the great
est piece of humanitarian legislation
ever put through by any government
Now as to the usual objections The
drug addicts have not become so be-
cause they can not get liquor. The New
York City Health Department asked
HOB drug patients how they acquired
the habit and only twelve said they
were driven to it by the desire for al
cohol Thee pleader for light wines and
beer is answered by the testimony of
Georgia. which after voting for PrOh.-
bition in 1905, legalized near beer"
and found all kinds of liquors were
sold under the guise of near beer.
Things went from bad to worse until,
in 1915, a law prohibiting the use of
alcohol in any form was passed. Michi-
gan voted dry by a margin of 6S,000 in
1916, but the liquor forces submitted
an amendment TO the constitution al
lowing the manufacture and sale of
vinous and malt liquors and this was
introduction of light wines and beers
would nullify the Eighteenth Amend
ment, as the New Republic admits. 1t
proposes to leave the enforcement Ell
tirely to the states, as it believes the
present law source of corruption
and weakness which amount to ma
tonal sccndal inasmuch as officials
have winked at wrong doing and men
in high office are implicated. 1t hope
lessly assumes that just as enfranchise-
ment of the NEGRO was in many instan-
ces nullfied by the attitude of the
South md the Federal government dar-
ed not attempt enforcement, so, in this
case, it is too much to expect that the
law can be enforced.
Let the people know the facts. Let
them realize that in spite of laxity in
enforcement, billions of dollars have
been saved, thousands of lives prolong-
ed, countless families given comforts,
and childhood been redeemed, and man
hood developed and the dangerous pes
simism which prevails in many quar-
ters will vanish. Let foreign nations
but know how they can save themselves
from threatened bankruptcy and again
compete with us and they will be com
PEELED from economic pressure to free
themselves from the dreadful handicap
of drink. When other nations prohibit,
then and then only can we prevent
smuggling in liquor and, instead OF the
imperfect results which we have at
tanned TO date, we may approach 10
hundred per cent enforcement OF law
We are lawless people, yet, with per-
haps no more then three-quarters OF
enforcement having attained such mar
velous and encouraging results, let lis
not play the coward and relinqutsh
ANYTHING gained The eyes of all ma
tiOns are uron us. If we fail. the world
NAV he Sc back half century. If we
hold fast. the world is bound to follow
suit and stopswhat next to war is the