, 1923-09-19
Price OF PROHIBITION TOO
High FOR Result rs OBTAINED
OPINION OF CREYBULL MAN
Rankest Failure In History, Declares c. III Wilson
Men Who Made Nation Great Not Men
Who Sneaked to Take A Drink
G.. H.. Wilson

approval, Antl-EVerythlnG leaders
have appealed to theatre managers
throughout the country to prevent
their performers from springing any
jokes about prohibition.
No comedian on Pantages circuit
is capable of springing as big a joke
as prohibition itself.
That this country has enjoyed the
greatest progress of any nation on
earth there can be no doubt, and it
is passing strange that such wonder
full accomplishments could have been
brought about without the aid of pro-
hibition.
The real builders of America, from
Washington, jefferson, Lincoln down
to Roosevelt, did not belong to the
soda pop brigade, nor to the class
that sneaks behind curtains to take a
drink.
1t would be an insult to the memory
of the above named to mention in
comparison, Ivy Einstein, PUSSY
foot" johnson ct al, who are on the
pay roll as prohibition officers, a very
large majority of whom have no
more respect for prohibition f it were
not for the salary attached thereto),
than Emma Goldman has for the san
City of he marriage VOWS. 1t has been
many times proven that they commit
more crimes than those whom they
hunt.
The modus-operandi persued by
the band of things who pose as Vol
stead act enforcers, is bound to meet
with the severest criticism and con-
demnation from all fair-minded and
right thinking people.
They were given orders on the
Canadian border recently to "shoot
to kilP' and pages could be written of
dastardly and cold-blooded murders
of both men and women.
If we have so far d%eteriorated that
we need a prohibition officer to stand
over us with a club and tell US what
we shall eat and drink then we are no
longer fit for political self govern
ment.
U. S. District Judge, John w. Pol
lack, of the Kansas district stated in
an interview in Denver some time
since, that if the Volstead act was
not repealed or greatly modified that
it would bring about a greater revolu-
ton than Russia ever knew
No, New York has not "~seceeded"
from the union, she has simply thrown
off the yoke of tyranny, despotism
and hypocrisy.
The U. S. Merchant Marine is now
confronted with a problem that is
really alarming.
This government has been enforced
to apologize to foreign countries for
having raided their ships which car
rice liquor, and the finest steamers
in the world are leaving the New
York harbor with empty cabins, while
foreign vessels are loaded to capacity.
1t has been thoroughly demonstrat-
ed that the travelling public will not
engage passage on n steamer that
carries nothing but Coco-Cola and
prayer books.
Prohibition was clearly defined last
Fall, and the verdict of the people
was that they nj not want the kind
we have at present.
No law will ever be looked on SER
iously which does not have behind it
the compelling force of public opinion
Hollywood jazz music and prohibi-
ton have placed a premium on crime,
and the variety of prohibition we
have at present has prostituted the
morals of America.
Drinking is now being done in a
manner much more harmful than in
the days of old; its effect is much
more pernicious, more harmful, more
destructive and far reaching.
Mere girls of today, who, previous
to the advent of prohibition, would
have refused to accompany a young
man If he were ever suspected of tax
ing a drink, are now the first to ask
If he has anything on his hip
1t is stated that one king of Eng
land was beheaded and another lost
his throne because of the search and
seizure act.
Former Prohibition Commissioner
Kramer stated that practically all
of the country west of Pittsburg is
dry now"
One is struck with the most pro-
found amazement that a man thus af-
fhcted with such wierd vagaries and
Authorizations should be permitted To
run at large, Time is not far distant
under present conditions when a resi-
dence will not be considered modern
unless II be equipped with an up to
date still.
The commission of n crime is look
ed upon as being entirely different
from mere violation of a law which
a beer proven such n ~travesly and
farce, and n law which strikes at the
very foundation of our God-given
rights, likewise our privileges as laid
down by that greatest of all docu-
ments our constitution, all of which
have been ignored, violated and
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