Putnam patriot., 1926-04-23
JUDGE CARTS OPINION

OUT of Che mass ridiculous statements presented for both V sides in the pr7eat agitation regarding the Eighteenth Amendment Wiudham County som Judge Ebert H. Cary of the United States Corporation has uttered of tbe really valuable words He has said in regard to modca
 u believe that the opinion of majority 0i the people negeuy and honestly obtained should control in all such questions Judge Gary may be remembered of M organizers of the Citizens of One Thousand for Enforcement of inc Law of his membership this committed will be those rabd prohibtionsts who will being urncoat of weakening his previous stand. such judgment wi only be made by those who that the present torn De enforced
 m the present hearing before the Senate Committee great deal valuable evidence has been presented by both sides Also large number o obviously silly statements and claims their way the newspaper accounts o the hear ngs More and of The opinion hai this distinct ly fight between he ely and the caunde bWelers 1t Inc country towns viage know that conditions haze improved
 he saloon disappeared and the Saturday nRh drunk ana fg. crowded Naudss, morning become feature of epoch that past City dwrigs know that since prohibition became a law the amount drinking both publicly and private
 y ha alarming extent One who has reached
 far maturity and who ha travelled through some ei larger cities of the country testify to appalling CIVIC of laweuess fhat have come into lasy growth since The law became q fact.
 There are those who will say n reply Judge Gary that an intelligent referendum Of the people obtained when the law amendment of the Constitutions But like individuals find il necessary Co change her minds the face of the evidence of experience hen such authorVe persons Judge Cary of the opinion that all A tegon honest referendum is necessary, one cannot bal feel that brought about b5 the status et 
 citizen whether h. be extreme 'wet. extreme "dr
 should thc law amended changed there arr thase and their Hare caon-Who will rrez such distinct sep backward in the history aud dczcent of oaf constitutional law Such reeonsiaerau and revision would be regarded disaster of whom th ed States Constitution E
 great and splendid structure EaI # eh revision comes 4 blame be ad upon h. lawmakers Who create the vision They regarded from the point o steN of th" national experience le to enforce he law began The blame will rest upon the nsneere politicians and Inc eno
 a fanatics who be made part of the Con saufion before whole ready to obey a. There lies chief the law. Temperance. m s true sense was overdden by prohibition Me believe that return temperance what all good citizens want today and what will expression honest referendum s taken The unfortunate that any weakening o the law as stands is more than likely bring about condition oi law the who leads sober and righteous life to the belief better the law and begin again But the law and begin all over again with the development temperance through education and gradual elimination would be humate the Constitution the reply o this IS that the Constitution eohld probably suffer the humiliation that has under gone ever since Is Eighteenth Amendment passed
 often been the recipient of letters and com muncaons protesting against s stand m regard io pfohooh We have constantly believe that the law cannot be properly ha has led to conditions in the nation caamtous The Patriot reiterates M statement years that movement for true temperance country would always receive ts heartes support t believes always has believed that the first step towards an actual temperance and that would have gained support those citizens who are nagrany breaking the law today the abolition o the saloon and Building this structure temperance prohibition could have been gained m generation of education and elimination h believes that some such program adopted attain finally the goal that the Vol stead act was supposed reach