The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-13
THE PROHIBITION FARCE

Plentywood has been saved againl RIM is nm
the run and the Anti-Saloon League can point with
PRIDE to the success of the "Noble Experiment" as
1t reels off list of raids and arrests in the effort
10 dry up the nation. High on the scroll of its &C.
comphshments VIII be the successful sortie of Wad-
dell and Winters week before last when little
boot1cians were caught in the prohibition net IN
Plentywood, while the two leading purvevors of
spirituOus cheer escaped
Every sallow-visaged fanatic from DR. James
Doran to the most senile dotard in the Anti-SaIoon
League will hail this accomplishment as a long
step IN the direction of making brentwood safe
Tor men and women of weak will and drv wind
pipes They will clasp their hands in PRAYER ana
with eyes focused on the heavens congratulate
their deity for placing them on this earth to serve
MIN and make life as miserable as possible for the
rest of humanity.
Did the recent raid ston the sel1iro OIL b;
of liquor in Plentywood? Why ask such ridden
lous question During the time the raid was IN
progress at least one bootlegger sold more Iimor
than he is reported to have peddled in anv pne
month prior to Saturday, Nov. 80. There was
more liquor Iurching around the street in human
containers on that Saturday evening than ON anv
otner Saturday before or since. And since the nro
mDlton agents departed with the laurels of victory
ON their brows liquor could be had in this town bv
anybody with the price
Prohlbltlon IS farce. It is a scandal. IT Is
the greatest promoter of hypocrisy and fraud tbat
was ever foisted on the American peonle There
Is more bunk pedded by its supporters and moro
les told In its behalf than the total outuut of boL
UNI turned loose on the population regarding the
noble aims of the United States when the man
nood OF America was shed to the battlefields of
Europe to save the British Empire in the World
war 1t has created hordes of grafters and armies
OF stoolpigeons And it has made of tb;s co,,n+--
a nation of bootleggers.
The Producers News is against rrob;t;s;., E..
the reason that it does not promote Temperance n
tne use OF alcoholic stimulants We do NOT bold
the bootegging profession up TO nublic sc0~, -
cause we believe that the bootleoger 1bo ell. !;
quor is on the same moral level with the c,,s+o,o
who buys it. We know that the farmers VIII 900
70 town like TO have a sociable drink with their
friends and we know that if they cannot get IN
Flentywood they will go to Outlook where mr.
niolOlon RAID would be real novelty We believe
that the prohibition agents don't conduct raids IN
outlook because they have financial reason for
letting the speakeasies operate without ;nterfor-
ence. We believe that certain bootleooars asoo~o
IN Plentywood while others gets cauobt boc.r.o ot
'he protection" policy in the dry law enforcement
apparatus And we believe that tbis cond+;o, IN
prVeall as long as the prohibition law is IN Co.
AnereIore we favor a substitute for prob;b.
tion the program of The American Temnaronoo
League, which is modelled on the Canadian svs-
.sm' mat or some similar system -.euld abolish
tne evils that flow from volsteadism. Prob;bitior
as means Of doing away with the curse Of .1co-
hOlism Is ike putting mustard plaster on wood
en- leg The majority of the people are against
piUmouOn. No law can be enforced against the
n he
and it is doomed. N''e'-iOi'SaOie