The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-06

VIC OlIlcldl oI oouth dakota, appears in the FIR
cks, S. D. Free Press, one of that states lead
pers of which Mr.. Ayres is editor.
TOWNLEY STARTS A MORAL CRUsA
A. c. Townley, organizer of the first
great farm relief drive in the United
States, is now engaged in an effort to
arouse people to the danger of allowing
the liquor business to drift in its present
channels.
Temperance in the use of alcohol is his
aim. He proposes to teach people the fol-
ly of over-indulgence. In the meantime
he proposes that the profit in the LIQUOR
business which is causing the crime and
generalization throughout the nation, shall
be knocked out of Whiskey BY making IL
quor government monopoly.
There can be little doubt that the peo-
pie as whole are convinced that the pro-
hlb1tlon law is not enforceable and that the
present bootlegging system is demoraliz-
ing the nation.
Sentiment, so far as we can ascertain is
favorable to some change, but so far those
opposed to prohibition have contented
themselves with berating the prohibition
law without offering anything really con-
structive or effective.
When the proposition to have the gov
eminent handle distribution is made and
1t Is explained that the liquor is to be sold
Al GUST, every intelligent person will
reallze without argument that the boot
ieggers will go out of business at once.
just as the horse-drawn coaches went out
OF business with the advent of the first
steam railroad train.
When 1t is no longer profitable for pri-
vate parties to sell liquor THEY WILL
MOI SELL IT, and it will not be neces-
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appropriate twenty-nine million dollars
for prosecution of liquor law violations or
use sawed-off shot guns to enforce the IL
quor regulations. They will be self en-
forcable.
This is proposition that should be self
evident to anybody who has ordinary
reasoning powers.
1t is proposition that should appeal TO
all classes of people the prohibitionists
as well as the wets-because it is clear
tnat the enormous profits now made in the
Illicit liquor trade are responsible for the
violations of the law that nobody shouId
take second thought in arriving at the
conclusion that the present LIQUOR laws
are not effective and cannot be made eff
fective
1t is probable that Townley, great or
gamer, Will become real moral force
IN the country by promoting his Ameri
can temperance League for the repeal of
the Volstead Act and the modification of
the 18th Amendment to permit GOVERN
ment distribution of liquor at cost.
Those who have been preiudiced AGAINST
MN IN the past will eventually be made 70
see that he is undertaking a work which
snould receive the active support of good
cltlzens everywhere and that he is NOT the
monster ne has been painted, but right
eous man seeking sound solution of a
great moral issue which must be settled
soon II the country is to be saved from
the dogs. AAoi'
Inc American Temperance League does
not propose to start political party. NOR
promote personal political ambitions Us
purpose, as outlined by Mr.. Townley. is to
organlze the sentiment of the country to
support members of congress and state
legislatures in making a CHANGE which
these members of congress would have
mace long ago if they had had organized
packing to sanction their work.
The change can be made without oreat
oiIl1lculty: There will be no violent ennos
slelon TO It except by the big bootleg RINGS
\. Inc cltles and the professional nroh;bi-
Lon workers of the Anti-Saloon T,eao1,a.
Inc Dig millionaire bootleg rings want -
MAINTAIN the present system because thew
are making enormous money out of Il
Inc Anu-Saioon League organizations
prefer to maintain prohibition becanse
they are holding good Jobs and want -
keep them. want 70
These two elements of onnosi+;o .u
be swept away before moral wave -. wIi
will not consider either the bootleg r;n ,,,S
profits or the professional Anti.Sainon
League superintendent Job. '''''''O''