Evening journal., 1922-03-11
NOT REPRESENTATIVE.


w scani majority OF It's members, has done the
ookedfor thing It has approved the so-caed Chicago
Councilmanc resolution urging Congress to modify the
volsiead act It Will permit Of the manufacture and
sale OF Wholesome beer and ght wines"
It noteworthy fact that all the Democrats voted
for the resolution while Of the Republican members only
vo-councilmau Johnson Of the First ward and Coun-
Gilman Hopkins, OF the Sixth ward-voted against IT,
From start TO finish It was Democratic Coancmanlc
move and It is pity that Councmen Johnson and
Hopkins permitted themselves TO be roped into the
scheme by the NicNabbNiuvena Democratic combination
that stands for little in the way Of representing
Wilmington sentiment relative to the proprety Of
adopting such resolution
The plan is 10 forward copies Of the resolution TO
Senators Ball and dupont and Representative Layton in
Washington and to them TO work to assist putting
its object into effect Fortunately for the people OF
Wilmington Senators and our Representative know
how much value 10 attach to resolution put through
under such auspices and how little It stands for in the
matter Of public sentiment
this connection may not be amiss to call atten-
ton to the fact that Mrs Margot Asquh, Of England
says her visit to our country has turned her against
prohibition She came here dry" advocated she re-
turns home '~Vet" advocate
Mrs Asquith Is especially sho,.g y the drinking
among our young people-the magnetic power Of flask
OF whisky or synthetic gin at dance
She wouldn't be as emphatic now II she had visited
American before prohibition and watched the drinking
among young folk in grill rooms or even at college and
school dances where the boys with the largest pesop
trousers spiked the punch.
Very few rum hounds will admit it. But there Is far
less drinking now than before prohibition Turn your
memory back 10 saloon days, when midnight owY cars
were riotous road houses bacchanalau and drunken
men staggering In streets were common
drunkard attracts ten times much attention now
because the stun IS hard to get
Every conversation these days II II lasts opg enough
s..ftc IN 4 faNOrite tonic is the great
number OF people who drank before prohibition,
but now take intense pride in being able to serve some
thing with kick
"Al this" say the rum hounds rs due 10 Americans
resentment against having their personal liberty
strained by law"
Il this reasoning be logical most OF philosophical
anarchists. Which we're not
Personal liberty is restrained daily by hundreds OF
other laws-as traffic regulations disease quarantine and
prohibition OF keeping piss in city limits These laws
are accepted calmly as matter Of course
This is the truth The people who drinking now
would be drinking twice much II the saloons we've
back. The war left us with highly strung nerves
and terrific economic problems This heritage is the
cause OF ihe widespread craving for nquor-to soothe
The nerves and make us forget economic problems we
haveut the courage to face with clear brains
Rum hounds unable to get 1t through their heads
nat the prohibition law is here to stay. In the back
Of their brains llnger a deuson that dryness is only
lemporary-that somehow other liquor will come
back
Not whisky just wines and beers" they say Their
sb-consclous minds know that wines would be spiked
high-proof
Whether the national constitution could be unamendeC
by any process Is doubtful. The Supreme Court nigh
have something TO say about that Certainly wou1
require majority votes Of both houses OF Congress an,
both houses Of thirty-slx State Legislatures
Lestmatzed liquor is gone forever in the Unite,
States. Talk 10 the contrary is futile as It Is asinne
While majority Of the members OF City Council ma,
make itself ridiculous by adopting so-called Chcag
resolutions, that majority cannot make the city of vii
mngton ridiculous in the eyes Of our State and Nation
because It's action in Council is not representative O
preponderating sentiment in city