Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-22
Eight ''Facts'' Presented
for "Wet" Consideration
To the Editor of The Star:

| The Association for the Repeal Of
the Eighteenth Amendment" proposes
| to have a "f8ce-the.facts conferences
to further Its propaganda. and since
the said association has the effrontery
and bad taste to choose Washington's
birthday for their campaign field day
for the liberty to make wine-bibbers
| and beer blOats of our citizens j beg
to submit the following facts for tho
| consideration OF the said association.
| in the fun assurance that they will
face none Of them or any others that
| do not lead to q brewery or wine cask:
Fact No. T. The first insurrection
| against the execution Of laws under
| the Constitution Of the United States
was the whisky rebellion OF Wash
ingtons second administration. Re
| fusing to pay tax on whisky. and bills
OF Indictment having been issued
| against riotous insurrectionists. the
United States marshal, on the way to
serve court processes. was fred on and
| narrowly escaped with his life. After
further outrages Washington wrote:
| "If the laws are 10 be trampled upon
with impunity and A. minority. a. small
one. too. Is to dictate to the majority,
| there Is an end put. at one stroke, to
republican government
| In connection with the raising Of
| volunteers 10 put down the whisky
rebellion Washington again wrote
mo citizen of the United States can
ever he engaged in a more important
service to their country. 1t Is nothing
| less than TO consolidate and to pre-
! serve the blessings Of that Revolution
| which, at much expense of blood and
| treasure. constituted us free and In.
dependent nation
Fact No 2. That Washington ex-
pressed his opinion of those who OPP
posed the duly adopted Constitution
and executed laws in the strongest
! terms OF which the following are ex-
amples: And when in the calm mo-
ments of reflection they the citiZens)
| shall have traced the origin and prog
ress Of the instruction let them de-
termine whether 1t has not been TO
| mented by combinations of men who.
| careless OF consequences and disre-
| garding the unerring truth, have dis
| seminaIed, from ignora nee or perver-
sion OF facts. suspicious. jealousies and
| accusations of the whole Government.
Fact No. 3. That the pleas for per
| sOnal liberty" by above described asso-
Citations under present day names have
only one definition of liberty, which is
to make of ones self a walking winery
or an animated beer key; that the
liberty of the wives, mothers and chill
dren Of America to have sober fathers.
husbands. decent homes and the OPP
pOrtunity TO grow up without the
squalor and disgrace of a liquor-guz-
| ZlnG parent has no part in their
thoughts and no place in their deflni.
| ton of liberty"
| Fact No. 4. That about four-fif
of the liquor. at least. formerly con-
sumed in the United States was beer;
Ft,r h ha i,,rtf of lnS,1 nc
| We're owned by breweries. That the
! talk and propa ga nda claiming to have
! as it's object the sale of beer and wine
| without the saloon Is hypocrisy and
| fraud, as a saloon is nothing more nor
| less than a place TO sell liquor, and
| without place to sell it beer cannot
be sold. That the real object of the
Association Against the Eighteenth
| Amendment is TO restore the hyphen-
ated beer baron to his erstwhile power
and turn every American home into a
beer garden.
Fact No. 5. That the Supreme Court
of the United States has thrown every
contention of the vets out of court.
That. in spite of the forever reiterat ed
| falSehood that the people do not
want prohibition. every election since
the passage of the amendment has
shown stronger sentiment for II.
That lawbreaking and bootlegginE
1 have been fomented and encoura ged
by all such associations who have lent
their moral support to the proposition
that the Government of the United
States cannot enforce it's own laws,
and that these laws. regardless of the
| vast majority of citizens behind them.
should be defied and disregarded.
Fact No. S. That the talk about
! modifying" the Nolstoad law. in or
der to decrease lawlessness, Is an
utter sham. knowing they cannot re-
peal the amendment, they wish to
nullify it by making its execution i'm
possible. That they are willing for
us prohibitionjsts to have our laws
provided we will let them have their
liquor. which is just what We will
never do.
Fact No. Z. That the United States,
under prohibition. has become and
continues to be the wealthiest. health
est and happiest large nation in the
world. That poverty has almost dis
lappeared: that savings accounts have
increased beyond all calculation; that
institutions for treating alcoholism
have closed their doors: that alcoholic
wards in hospitals have been closed
that in sections where the Associa-
ton Against the Eighteenth Amend
ment has no adherents jails have been
closed and the blessings of a dealco-
holized community become apparent
on every hand.
Fact No. s. That every year the
serried ranks of the vets are being
decimated by the Grim Reaper. while
every year also there come to a noble
and liquorless ma jority hundreds Of
thousands Of clean young voters who
are brought up to hate, and despise
King Booze and all his works That
therefore. in the course of nature the
Association Against the Eighteenth
Amendment will go where the wicked
cease from troubling and the weary
are at rest.
ROSSEE EDW. MITCHELL.
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