The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-07-14
Foreign Advertising Representative
THE AMER AN PRESS ASSOCIATION
BOOZE CAMPAIGN TO MAKE
CONGRESS WET,


The vets have already put in
motion we'll organized campaigns in
Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New York, Rhode Is
land, Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illi-
nois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne-
sofa, Montana, Nevada, California
and Texas, and are determined to
elect wet Congress if money and
Misrepresentation will do it, and it
behooves the temperance forces to
organize as of old, and go into the
fight in bitter earnest. The follow
ing article from The American
Press, of New York, is re-published
| for the careful consideration of our
readers:
Country America voted prohibit
ton into the Constitution. In just
four months Country America will
have to vigorously defend it's child
at the polls or let the politicians
& fling it into the sewer catch basin.
4 And the defense results must be de-
cisive or the politicians will murder
the child anyway.
'The fact is the wet hosts have
not only planned an elaborate and
widespread campaign for the nation
II elections on November z, but they
have already put the campaign into
action. The drys, generally speak
ing, are laying back on their oars,
blissfully content that prohibition
IS in the Constitution.
sit sure is, but they are grossly
leceiving themselves if they think
he wet attack is to be made on the
Eighteenth Amendment. The vets
policy is to let that alone and con-
,entrate everything on amendments
% the Volstead law.
"Such amendments can be passed
~ Congress by majority vote, ana
you are going to find the vets, with
The big contributions of the distill-
ars, brewers and saloon keepers and
he smaller but more numerous con-
ributions of the foreign born within
our gates, striving in every de-
5atable state to pledge congressional
nominees to vote for changes" in
he Volstead law.
"Nor are they going to arouse the
ukewarm dry element by demand
ng drastic amendments to the Vol
stead law at the very beginning.
They will be quite content with 2
Ter cent beer, knowing that if they
an make that wedge, 1-3 and 3
Ter cent beer will follow in good
line. Next will come light" wines,
he word Eight" being used to de-
GIVE, because the lightest wine has
5 per cent of alcohol, and very
title of it will induce intoxication.
''The funny thing about it all is
hat 2 per cent beer, if passed, will
e called prohibition, and yet any
nan can get drunk on 2 per cent
l ,eer.
"The vets have started their
ampaign with the knowledge that
hey will elect very respectable
bloc" to the next Congress without
turning hand. Practically every
one of the dozen and a half con-
@ressmen to be elected from New
'ork city and it's New Jersey vicil-
ty will be for Eight" wines and
heer. Up New York state will send
few more. Pretty nearly the en-
tire delegation from Chicago will be
wet. Pennsylvania will send a num-
her of vets to Congress next fall.
Then there will be others from cities
ike Cincinnati, st. Louis, San Fran
'isco, Milwaukee, Boston, Detroit,
Ieveland, st. Paul and others.
"All in all, the vets can depend
IN around rs to 100 members as
certain nucleus. Then, If they can
add another rs to 100 by gum shoe
work or by the expenditure of mil
lions of money, they may not have a |
majority of the next house, but their
bloc" will be large enough for pur-
noses of heavy trading in favor of |
mendments to the Volstead law.
THE American Press has taken
aims to find out in what states the
vets propose to put up their biggest
battle. They are leaving the south
llone. with the exception of parts of
ne or two states, because the peo-
lie below the Mason and Dixon line
re pretty generally unit against
ooze. There will be isolated cases
4 wet work in the south, of course,
specially gum shoe work.
But it is different story in the
orth. You can depend on good
tiff wet campaigns in Massachu-
'etts, New Hampshire, Rhode Is
md, Connecticut, New York, New
ersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
laryland, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois,
indiana, Missouri, Michigan, Cali.