Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-11-03

astounded the world. Last year saw
ingsa bank deposits increased ST.
14O,O 900.
Gladstone said: "The liquor traffic
is more destructive than war. famine
and pestilences."
Abraham Lincoln said: II would
rather lose my right hand than sign
document that will perpetuate the
liquor traffic"
Theodore Roosevelt said: "The
American people must defeat the IL
quor traffic or the liquor traffic will
defeat the American people,"
Edison said: Before prohibition
hundreds Of shabbily dressed women
appeared at the factory in West
Orange every pay day to get part OF
their husbands money before he got
to a saloon. Within year after
prohibition not a woman appeared.
Surely. Americans do not want a re-
turn of such conditions"
Evangeline Booth Of the Salvation
Army said: 1.-THE robbery of chill
dren's bodies. minds and souls is laid
at the brazen gate of alchohol; 80
per cent of the suffering of laborers'
families was wiped out by prohibit
tion."
The argument put forth by the vets
is that prohibition cannot be enforced.
That statement is one of Satan's ar
guments.
Because the law against murder
is repeatedly broken, is that suffi-
cient cause for repeal? Should we
say that the law against killing our
fellowmen makes murderers? Is 1t
not true that many young people COM
nit murder? Is that sufficient cause
to take the law out of our statute
books? 1t is just as reasonable to
do so as to annul the prohibition law
to keep young folks from drinking.
The enforcement of the prohibition
law has been largely in the hands of
its enemies. Place it in the hands
of friends who will not transgress the
law themselves and We'll see an even
greater improvement in living condi-
tiOns.
The cost of enforcement is 43 cents
per taxpayer, less than the cost of
an ice cream cone. The remaining
cost is met by fines and confiscation.
Our wet friends would have us be-
lieve that the return of liquor would
yield revenue of billion dollars.
There are only two ways that might
be done and that is either by doubling
the consumption of liquor or by
doubling the excise rate To double
the consumption the manufacturers
and retailers would conduct advertis-
ing campaigns in the same subtle way
the tobacco dealers have done in in
creasing the smokers of cigarettes
among our boys and girls. The lat
ter way would raise the excise rates
so high that it would double the
temptation to evade the rates by
highest revenue ever collected on beer
was $126,2S6.O00. the wartime tax in
1918, when breweries were running
to full capacity. A billion dollar rev.
enue is but wet propaganda.
The Department of Commerce
states: Since prohibition the national
income increased five times faster
than the population. No wet nation
has such a record. We have had an
increase of 100000 new homes;
100000 homes equipped with cleo
tricity; 100000 with radios; 6,OO0,-
900 new telephones installed. In
1920 there were 100000 automobiles,
i'm 1929, 23,OOO,OOO
The annual consumption of milk
has raised from AZ to 60 gallons per
capita since prohibition; cheese has
increased 500. cons sumption of butter
has almost doubled. Why? Because
money spent for beer has been re-
leased to buy food. Can the farmer
cOnscientiOusly say he wants liquor
to come back through repeal?
Before prohibition the manufac-
turers produced two and a quarter
billion gallons of liquor. The con-
sumption dropped from 22.S1 gallons
per person to 2.S4 gallons. Does that
sound like there is more drinking
than before prohibition?
Before 1920 there were about $50
liquor cure hospitals, including the
Kelley Cures. Neal Institutes, the
Gatlin chain and many others. All
but IA Of these drink cures have gone
out of business.
Alcoholic deaths averaged 21.3
per 100000 in wet years against 11.8
in dry years. Insanity was three
times greater in wet years according
to hospital reports.
Scientific measures prove that with
a driver in normal condition, hia
mental processes take about one-fifth
of a second; also, that from one to
four hours after taking as much al
chohol as there is in two ounces of
whiskey (Which averages an Amer
lean high ball or pint of beer) the
mental process takes from two-fifths
to three-fifths of second. A cal
going 35 miles an hour travels 20 to
81 feet in two-fifths of a second. This
retarded impression made by alcohol
is the cause of countless accidents
Prohibition can be voted out of the
constitution only as it was voted into