Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-10-14
WINE AND BEER ADVOCATES MIS-.
LEADING THE VOTERS. SAY
THE PRoHleiTIoNIsTs.
CONSTITUTION is SPECIFIC
Federal Government Could Enforce
the Eighteenth Amendment, Regard.
less OF the Result Of Referendum
Elections In Various States.
BY JAMES p. HoRNADAY


the remnants Of TIDE whlsky-beer-wine
traffic are seeking TO break down fed
eral prohibition, Is trying to make the
people who listen to its appeal believe
two things, both Of which are ques-
toned by supporters Of prohibition.
These are:
First-That the vets will be salts
fed II the country will legalize the
manufacture of beer and light wines;
that the manufacture and legaliZed
sale of whisky Is not desired and that
the re-establlshment of the open saloon
Is not sought.
Second-That 1t is possible for the
voters of any state to vote back beer
and light wines in that state regard
less of the Eighteenth amendment to
the Constitution of the United States.
The fact that the whisky interests
of the country are the mninstay iinan-
cially and otherwise of the organized
fight against prohibition, the friends
of prohibition say, should be sufficient
evidence of a desire on the part of the
vets that eventually the manufacture
and sale of whisky shall be resumed.
The beer and light wines" campaign,
1t Is asserted, is preliminary to the
campaign for the return of all sorts
of Intoxicating liquors in due time.
Referendum in Three States.
Three states have thus far author
lied referendum touching prohibi.
81 a. -. til, H.. no
November Z.
0hio-There will be vote on
state constitutional amendment legal.
izing the sale of beer and light wines
within the state.
Illin0ls-A vote on the question as
to whether beer and light wines shall
be sold in the state.
MaSsachusetts-A vote on the ques-
tlon as to whether the state enforcing
law shall be sustained
These three referendums are 10 take
place in spite of section of article
Z OF the Constitution OF the United
States, which Is as follows:
This Constitution and the laws of
the United States which shall be made
In pursuance thereof and all trea-
ties made, or which shall be made,
under the authority of the United
States. shall be the supreme law Of
the land, and the judges in every state
shall be bound thereby, anything in
the constitution or laws of any state
to the contrary Notwithstanding"
Section of this same article OF
the Constitution of the United States
is as follows:
The senators and representatives
before mentioned, and the members
of the several state legislatures, and
all executive and judicial officers. both
OF the United States and Of the sew
erai states. shall be bound by oath
or affirmation To support this conStltu-
ton"
State Can't Annul Amendment.
No one in the country understands
any better than the men who are man
aging the campaign of the vets that no
state can by its independent action
annul within its own borders an
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States and yet the managers
OF the vets campaign are endeavoring
TO make voters In Ohio. Illinois and
Massachusetts believe that n state can
override the Constitution of the Unit.
ed States. OF course the fact Is that
II In any one of these states the peo-
/ pie should by their votes provide for
the manufacture and sale of beer and
I light wines within the state In con.
travention of the eighteenth amend
ment. the state action would be In
valid. The federal government could
20 right along enforcing the eighteenth
amendment within the borders of any
such state regardless of the state &c
/ ton.
/ AS an example of the sort of cam.
! paign the Association Against the Pro
hibltlon Amendment Qnc.) is conduct.
/ Ing. the following is quoted from the
latest bulletin of this organization
1.-THE advocates of modification of
the existing prohibition laws just won
| an important victory In Ohio. which
| will result In having vote on the
question of legalizing the sale of beer
and light wines In the state nj the
coming elections in the Buckeye state.
~ similar triumph. but more easily
won, has also been scored by the AS
ISOLATION Against the Prohibition
Amendment In Illinois. Agitation car
red on by the association and its
members In that state resulted In ar
engagements for submitting "A referen-
dun TO the Illinois voters. calling for
a modification in the state and federal
laws to permit the manufacture of beer
and light wines for home consumption.
Practically no opposition was encoun-
tered In Illinois by the association In
its efforts