Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22
EMPHATIC REFERENDUM
SAYS: KICK IT OUT

Though against the Eighteenth
amendment, two or three years ago
Arthur Brisbane, the we'll known edi-
torial writer, wrote that it will re-
main in the federal constitution, and
he repeated that statement many
times. Other thinkers have also said
the same thing. Mr.. Brisbane argued
that once in the constitution to re-
move it is a terribly hard ,task-he
may even have said we may as well
try and jump to the mOon-but at
any rate he did say that it will re-
main in the constitution and that he
said very emphatically.
On Tuesday even the dry state of
Iowa voted to repeal the Eighteenth
amendment with a majority of over
$4,000 votes. Connecticut and New
Hampshire were also added to the
repeal list the same day, Connecticut
by vote of six to one and New Hamp-
shire by better than two to one. This
makes a total of IA states that have
voted repeal without any going to
the dry column.
The vote thus far cast on repeal of
the Eighteenth amendment shows
plainly that the people are not salts
fled with too much shall mott" 1t
proves further that voters believe good
morals are not brought about by leg
islation but through education, the
home, the school, the church, the
community life, and through the ex-
ample we set for others rather than
the legislation we may have enacted
along those lines.
Dry leaders in Iowa asked the citi-
zens to vote against repeal or stay
at home" That of course was the
poorest kind of campaign statement
to make and showed what kind of
brains they had at the head OF the
campaign. Wet leaders declared the
statement un-American, in which they
of course were right. 1t is silly and
ridiculous to think of asking people
to disfranchise themselves simply be-
cause they may not care to vote on
the side of the Cnes who are doing
the talking.
The vets have had plenty nuts
to talk for them i'm the past but the
above campaign statement from Iowa
wins the glass walking stick, and only
helps to bring to the mind of the
voter that there was no referendum
vote on the Eighteenth amendment
when it was stuck into the constitu-
ton. So now when they have the
chance-each Individual voter to ex-
press choice, they are not going to
stay at home" That half baked
statement surely helped to bring out
the vote in Iowa.
But the Iowa dry leader who made
the 'boner'' is not the only one to hurt
the temperance cause. Many letters
appear in the open forum columns of
the daily press that are no credit to
the dry cause. Herewith is part of
"a letter that appeared recently in the
ST. Paul Dispatch and which was
signed True Blue:
They said the return of the liquor
traffic would stop boOtlegging. Beer
is on sale now but bootlegging con-
tinues. They said the passage of pro-
hibition would mark the decline of
racketeering, but police officials now
warn us that racketeering will be ex-
tended with the return of the liquor
traffic.
European countries to which they
have long pointed as having solved
the drink problem, encourage tenn
perance education, and here nothing
is said as to any instruction against
the evils of drink. On the contrary,
our youth are to be taught by every
possible means to use intoxicants..
They have even forgotten the
promise of protection for dry territory
The country is to be flooded, deluged,
drowned to balance the budget, but
the balance will be found on the
wrong side of the ledger"
Just one question would probably be
enough for 'True Blue" and that is:
Where are the communities that "our
youth are to be taught by every pos
Sible means to uSe intoxtcantS2"