The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-30
W.C.T.U. Head Scores
Efforts of Vets
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object is to circulate petitions to
repeal the state dry law. ant!
charged that there j.; no valid reason
for such action at tbs time; that the
sole object Of the organization is to
keep wet propaganda before the
people. The vets. she charged, will
be no more willin to abide by the
will of the majority after another
vote is taken tan they are Low.
TIL. people had opportunity to
express themselve on tn subject
when C. p. Stone ran fo- senator on
a wet platform, she said. end pointed
to the fact that Stone received only
9,738 of IS, JOG votes cast. No can
didate for state office who ever
came out openly on a wei platform
has ever been successful in North
Dakota, Mrs. Anderson said. The
vets, she chars ed, will put the state
to the expense of votir on prohi-
bition repeal. If they car get the
required number of signatures to
their petiticr Simply for the pur-
pose Of eepinug false and mislead-
ing wet propaganda before the peo-
pie"
Charging the w. {. I. U. to con-
tinue its campsi, Of warning peo-
pie against signing thes wet petit
tions and citing it as the present
important bushes. Of every member,
Mrs. Anderson charged perso..s who
sign the petition with being "un-
true to the best interests Of our
state and Of cur homes" and said
they are mot worthy Of OF vote
for any office from poundmaster to
governor. Should the vets secure
enough sigIers to place the ques-
ton on the ballot they will over
whelmingly defeated. she said.
Nothing Il Be Ga ed
Saying that there is nothing to be
gained by taking such vote, Mrs.
Anderson labeled the idea Of SUBJ
hitting i, to the people DIV as 4
disgrace to this pioneer, prohibition
state and an insult t. tie Intelligence
Of our people to suggest repeal Of
state prohibition whcl. it is part
of the federal const tuition. Repeal
would be an act Of secession, she
said, anC adde: that members her
organization are not secessionists.
Success of the vets would result
in notification of the FEDERAL pro-
hibition law, she said, since North
Dakota Id then have no state,
county or local enforcement and fed
eral officers would find it impos-
sible to do all of the work which
should be done. The result, she
said, would be a condition of "law-
lessness, Bookkeeping and drunken
ness such as we have never seen in
North Dakota. The v hole scheme is
an affront to the intelligence. loyal
ty and decency Of every citizen Of
the state"
Wet propaganda would not be
dangerous, she said, were it 40 for
the fact that the number Of people
who think is Surprisingly small''
and that the average person finds
thu newspaper headline an easy and
pleasant substitute fer thinking.
Wet propaganda is too often swal-
lowet' without question nut attempts
to pin down persons who talk O the
"awful effects" Of prohibition show
the propaganda for what it is. she
said.
The vets she sa' arc attempt
ing to discredit prohibition by claim
in. that it was put over when the
people didn't know it, that it ha
increased drinking and drunkenness
and that it cannot be enforced. "Dry
victorief are minimized and wet VIC
tories magnified," Mrs. Anderson
said. 1.-THE great dry victories last
fall, where prohibition was sustained
in California by majority Of 63,-