Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-18
Many Observers Forecast
1882 Fight Over Prohibition

While there is much skepticism as tc
the possibility Of making any substan-
tial change in the dry laws, comment
throughout the Nation emphasizes the
wet gains shown in the recent election
These are declared to offer no prospect
OF modification In the near future, but
1t Is widely believed that they indicate
warm battle In the 1892 campaign
with prohibition as the chief or one OF
the chief issues. Stress is laid upon
referendums which were favorable to
the vets. Changes in methods OF en-
forcement are suggested.
Definite course OF procedure for the
average citizen Is suggested by the AShe-
vile Times, with the statement: "If,
two years from now, the movement
against prohibition has scored further
success, IT will behoove the non-ex-
tremists In both the dry and wet camps
to come together to work out some
reasonable program for meeting very
practical fact of social, political and
economic Importance In the life Of the
Nation. The extremists Of neither side
should be allowed the final say on what
shall be the Nations policy in control
ling liquors"
THE election results" In the opinion
OF the Kansas City Star, demonstrate
clearly one thing-that there will be
increasing pressure for q popular test
Of prohibition and that this may be-
cone one of the chief issues of the next
national campaign. It is on that
ground, that the question demands
and will continue to demand, serious
consideration" The Des Moines Trib-
une declares that sit Is plain the pro-
hibition issue Is going to figure more
In f1a Al tn
not settled before then, It is evident, +"
continues that paper, that it IS to the
interest Of the country that it be set
tied. Economic and political matters of
real importance are delayed and side
tracked while it occupies the public
mind. Political realism requires the
elimination Of the question from poll
tics"
"The most notable victory the vets
have yet won" Is seen by the Richmond
News Leader in the election, referring
particularly to verdicts in Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island and Illinois, and
adding: 'ModificationistS answered de-
cisively the much-debated question Of
whether they would be wet or dry in
case their own views could not prevail
They voted wet Everywhere,
except in the South, the trend of the
senatorial elections was toward repeal.
If 1t continues so, what will be the
situation in 1892"
That the issue viii be paramount in
1882 Is also the opinion of the Whining
ton Delnarvia Star, the Charlotte News
and the Oshkosh Northwestern. The
New York times offers the summary of
the recent results, with emphasis upon
Democratic success and wet gains in
various Eastern States: "As nothing
succeeds like success, the Democrats of
the Midwestern, Mountain and Pacific
States, many of them already sick of
prohibition, may be expected to go with
the stream. There remains the South,
clingfng less fondly than once to its
old idol and stimulated by the prospect
or mirage of victory"
Millions of voters showed their OPP
position to the eighteenth amendment"
records the Chattanooga Times, while
the Charleston Is. O. Evening Post,
looking forward to the coming sessions
of Congress, states that "the brewers
are said to be getting their plants in
condition TO resume business" and
adds: what happened on election day
was only a sprinkle; the real wetting is
just ahead" The st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch AYERS that "the prohibitionists,
who have imperiled the very structure