The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-05-15
OnePan Of Chds Stockings TeeWhskies and Two Beers
Record Answers Charge
hbtion That Prohibition Degrading the Youth of America
Recalls Bit of History of Saloon Days
Manufacturers Record, Baltimore)

III tillS WILLOW, one recalls, were lndHy
articles of women's and children's wearing
apparel and toys, decorated with appro-
pirate price tags. And how were these
articles labeled? On a pair of women's
shoes was the sacrilegious price, One
quart of whisky; on a little toy for
child was the label, Give beers; the tag
on childs tiny, warm stockings pro-
claimed, Three whiskys and two beers"
And so on through hundred items. The
significance of that argument now is APP
preciated. The three whskys and two
beers" have been literally translated into
stocking for the degraded little child,
soon to grow into a still more degraded
youth because of this wicked perverson
of its fathers weekly wage. The situa-
ton is horrendous good cause for the
wailing, not to say crashing of teeth, of
the Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment
To say that the closing of the saloons
by any blow" has scattered the evils of
alcoholism into the homes is, of course,
far from the fact. To assert that it has
occasioned the degradation" of youth,
even assuming that there is such "degra-
dation," is equally untruthful.
"The laws and habits of people must
be in unison, or a nation of hypocrites
and liars results" adds this precious cir
cuar. First, one may cite, the habits"
of people never are in unison, and hence
the American principle that the wishes of
the majority must be respected above
those of the minority. Uncontrovertible
figures = we think this Association will
find - prove that majority of the United
States, in both population and area, were
dry on their own initiative by legislation
and practice, before prohibition was
adopted as a national policy. At all
events, the 48 states had the choice pre-
scented to them. Thus, the law is in
unison with the habits of majority of
the people.
Compelled to Drink
Zone hundred and seventy persons
died last year in Denver from acute a1co-
holism, compared with five deaths in
1915" adds the circular in question. It
also uuSHl nave Sd1Q tDdC OtneF HunQ1euS
in the land died from drinking poison
liquor. OF course, under the prohibition
amendment and enforcement law, these
persons were compelled to drink. Law
held their noses and forcef1lly poured
the liquor or poison down their throats.
As sensible, law-abiding citizens, of
course, they turned cheerily to the bottle
and trod blithely down the path, as un-
fortunate victims OF vicious law, toward
the undertaker's and, maybe, the Potter's
field. One of the worst things about pro-
hibition legislation undoubtedly is the fact
that it forces" certain folks to drink
drives them to drink" we believe, is the
wet expression. Mayhap it is the law
which Furnishes murder, that drives men
and women to homicide. Equally logical
is the assertion, or deduction, that the law
against stealing drives men and women to
peculation.
Unfortunately, space limitations prevent
the Manufacturers Record from broad
casting more widely the propaganda of