The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-27

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laws of North Carolina will be such that
North Carolina will not be able to cope
with the situation, the State will be flood
| ed with illegal beer and no 'revenoo" will
| be derived from the sale.
Therefore, the sale of beer must be le-
galized in North Carolina.
We are told that the fundamental char
acteristics of human nature never change.
1t is certain that the fundamental charac-
teristics of men who engage in distilling
and brewing and in the handling of alec
holc LIQUORS and in the drinking Of the
same, never change.
Bv the admission of the friends and sup
porters of the liquor traffic in North Caro-
lima and in the other States, there has been
no change of heart, no change of policies
or of methods among the distillers, brew
ers or handlers of beer and liquor in the
wears the country has had prohibition. They
are the same old distillers, brewers and
liquor dealers and liquor runners. They
are up to the same old tricks-the old, old
tricks of the liquor trade, so we'll known
to those of us who have been fighting the
LIQUOR business through the years.
Here they are-the fellows who want
to engage in the beer business in North
Carolina and in the country at large-and
who know that legalizing the beer bust
ness is only the entering wedge for the le-
galization of the hard liquor business
and the friends of the fellows who want
to engage in the beer business and who
want to become customers of the beer bust
ness-here they are, claiming that the laws
of North Carolina cannot be enforced be-
cause those who are proposing to engage
in the beer business do not propose to obey
these laws.
And mind you-the fellows who are go
ing to engage in the beer business are not
illicit brewers, they are not illicit beer run
ners. they are not bootleggers, or the OPP
orators of speakeasies, they will be doing
business under the sanction of national
law, and their business will be legallzed
in number of the States and it will be
entirely legal for them, under the laws CT
the country, to haul beer through North
Carolina, from one beer State into another.
But North Carolina is put on notice
early-as was predicted months ago by
The Times-News-that the friends OF
liquor in this country are out to repeal the
| Amendment, to repeal all prohibition laws,
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kinds of alcoholic liquor in every one OF
the 48 States; and, in so far, as possible
to have an unrestricted liquor business set
up in the country.
Their protestations and vociferations to
the country were and are sham and a
pretense. They are being rapidly uncoY-
ered-much more rapidly than the friends
of prohibition had expected.
Well-what are the enemies of the le-
galized liquor traffic going to do about 1t!
The Times-News predicts that here in
North Carolina they are going to tight
and if necessary, fight as they never fought
before, even in the days when the legal
lied LIQUOR traffic was run out OF North
! Carolina. But the time to fight has az
rived. 1t is even NOW in Raleigh, where
! a determined effort is being made to jam
a beer bill through the Legislature.
Henderson county is represented in the
Legislature by Senator and representa-
tive opposed to the liquor business, but
their position will be strengthened if all
the friends of prohibition among their cor
! stituents Immediately let them know that
they will have the backing of enemies Of
the liquor traffic in Henderson county in
! all efforts to keep the traffic out of North
Carolina.
Don't. be fooled, enemies of the liquor
traffic! The legalized liquor traffic, in all
it's hideousness, in all its immortality, IN
all its devilishness, in all its vile social con-
sequences, in all its paralyzing economic
results, in it's destruction of legitimate
business, in its development of poverty