Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-12-05

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1925
REV. SAM SMALL AND PROHIBITION
very good resident of Pocomoke City,
Miss Madge ut took to task last week regarding stand
urdays issue Of the Democrat
We do not purpose to enter into with
respondent because is too plain there
premises which would discussing the subject in hand
We cannot accept her assumptions nor can She ours there
mmovab body We would however, like to remind friend
that have taken positive stand against prohibition
the law the best that could be framed to insure tenn
course, that implies doubt and not alone such
reasoning and that would be we'll to refer Miss
more Sun last Sunday With all due respect to everybody
opinion might that argument against the Eighteenth
light before the uphodrs they usually taking the
possible Mr. Small will considered outside the pale any
ministerial community by dsavorng to the slightest de-
We would however let Mr. Small speak for himself and
Il am hundred per cent prohibitionist. was
ssde so scnt the na fight beo os p Sem
born and eight before the Antisaoon League
discount or deny my devotion to the and
| want what have wanted for those forty years.
the sns s sd0G se so
preston of the manufacture and transportation and
portation of Intoxicating liquors for beverage
satisfied with national prohibition is
1t is not the prohibition that have publicly contend
ed for during ring htys i from LIS 1885 s to 1920
blood for eight occasions during those years.
Amendment and the Volstead act, after five
of socaled national enforcement, is bitter disappont
ment of the faith that led to their enactment
Fresh from attendance upon the biennial national
convention of the Ant-Saloon League of America,
deeply impressed by the continuity of the question: will
Conferences between those concerned in the conven
TONS ohiectives revealed that OF then. coming
to realize that probably national prohbcn was brought
enforce it. Of the outstanding Of The
the floors of the Congress said much to this writer
at the convention and explained the that have
brought him to that conclusion.
In Eg IF the attenuation of the AntiSaoon Leagues
endeavols not only the saloon but every phase of legal
lied bevera lie ce" attacked he says
All Of us strenuously combated the charge that
s<qg, % deny tAe Individual citizen his right to have
had inaicnable right to and conduct
sn & Of wa n on su " v was our 4o
SUPPORT the proposition of accommodating the drink
On The other hand the opponents of national proh
btion predicted that success would all
G ndeasns s upon a the a Would d be
ous and that the transfer of police power
mendously increase the mechanism and expense of en-
forcing all antiiquor laws.
All those predictions, at which we hooed, have
true. The convention at Chicago great wholesale
complaint against Just st those evil results .+
shine S and boo % & cover Wh the country as the
have adopted enforcement acts in with the
Vosead Act nevertheless the authorities in charge of
detect chase and convict the yoaos of the law.
When the condition forecast in the debates
the amendment Congress the reply of its friends
that the States to prevent being overun by Federal for
egn Spies shoppers and enforcement officers sent out
from Washington would be foremost in the of their
own officers and in securing to themselves the fines for
But all those local benefits have experience
ed On the contrary the Federal forces have been planted
all the country and have sought for either honest
dishonest to take entire charge of prohibition
Scandals of nU G
unWarranted ou1ages upon private rights but the dem
able IN is present terms with ali the machinery possible
Tor the ederal Government to employ Hence the silly