Belt Valley times., 1926-10-07

sufficient number have initiated bill for
act to repeal liquor the state those that
to the liquor AS understand the
sage initiative would leave the enforcement of the liquor
the Federal government entirely although no one be-
eves will abrogate the liquor
laws permit the sale of inoxcants The Of
Initiated merely convey national
resentatives Washington message the effect that the
Vosead resulted satisfactorily in the State
and that Montana voters desire them to be revised
Initiative No protest against sumptuary Blue Laws
which intending to correct bad condition have dumped us into
infinitely
The passage of reform have to minds
created a Improvement in public morals.
AS an example how they worked let call to your
mind how past deemed best to close all saloons in
Belt o the first day of the week
experiment tried and Belt had really peaceful air
Sundays traveller hurng through the deserted village
might dog lazy sleeping in the center of main
thoroughfare mile and French Coulee
enough in the saloons to hold the crowd
there less drinking because of the fact that Belt saloons
closed Sundays? No who knows believes and the
whose Sunday had been disturbed by
hilarious shouts of nebrated firmly believed that the
ordinance of the Belt city council had permanently cured c
of drinking.
Under former Montana laws the oldest profession the
world recognized and regulated and the public health safe
guarded.
Urged on by band refOrmers who living vrtuous old
age forgeu youth and it's passions Legislature voted
profession of legal exstance they drove the members
open practice that profession both in the small towns
large those responsible for the law said and
give them credit for absolutely believing that there
belonging to that profession in the State of Mon
tana.
What women? They disappeared from the
district the residential districts the
larger cities they bought roOmng the principal
where without medical supervision they continued their trade
Are their fewer in the profession than formerly City
police officers believe that their has been increase by fifty
per of such the the venerea
disease is appalling.
The reasonably free from the
evil but the disease and the citizen who magnes that
longer exists is too creduous for this
The workings of the liquor laws have freed the smaller
general of places where liquor sold but there still
the nerant booegger boys and girls have not
nearly much trouble in getting liquor they had the
when Federal laws respected by and old and when
could bunch of clippings from the local
actuer before he sacked them affixed the
Initiative Measure No. 80 protest against Blue Laws
and the people who supporting it. will be found
dsuOned fathers and mothers who hailed the 18th Amend
ment a panacea for all ills.
To vote against this will be against
revision of national liquor laws
The country looking toward Montana and the politicians
also To vote against this to vote for continuation
of the present situation which has ruined boys and girls
1ieve
physician county said even though
liquor laws replace present Yolstead laws will take
generations undo the that has already been done
and this physician is total abstaner.
prominent official of Montana city told that during
his of office he had found the situation only ntoeabe
but tragedy III
We respect the citizens who have led exemplary lives and
whose desire to benefit humanity and the world in
better condition than when they found it. We them
their aruistc spirit but would that night they
visit rOadhouse dance and circulate the after
o'clock lIl
City do the situation because of
the undesirable publicity it viii the city but the
been brought close home to many of them City editors al
most universally opposed to the VOstead laws and favo
the initiated Why? the gathering of