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Saturday November, 29, 1924
I
THE EIGHTEENTH
AMENDMENT
Ever since the da}T when Mr.
Volstead realized the crowning
achievement of his unrelenting
efforts to dry up the damp atm
osphere of the United States of
America and his dream became
a part of the Constitution of the
Republic in the form of the pres
ent Prohibition enactment, he has
been the object of much criticism
from every side. Some of this is
commendation and some censure
according to how his achieveme
nt is viewed by the general pub
lie.
It is impossible to pick up
an American daily paper that do
es not contain numerous items
concerning the seizure of illicit
liquor, the prosecution of sundry
‘bootleggers and purveyors of
moun tain dew. Lately we read of
a new fleet of rum-chasers to be
built for the Atlantic coast to
cope with the traffic there. Also
we read that a prominent English
journalist has declared that the
smuggling of English liquor into
the L\ S. A. will alone pay off
the British war dedt to America,
What is to be the outcome
of this far reaching law? During
the seven years that this Act of
Congress has stood on the stat
ute books the situation, instead
of getting better, is daily getting
further out of control and is bee
oming so aggravated as to assu
me alarming proportions.
In order to get to the bottom
of this it is necessary to go bach
to the beginning. Now. in the
first place the enacting of such
a law would never have been pos
sible had it not been put up to
the people at the precise time
that it was put up. It hit the cou
ntry amidships at a time whet
the scare of war had brough!
home to the people just how int
ensely wicked and worldly they
had become. They said. “This is
surely ajudgemeton us for out
wickedness; we must change our
ways.” And, as a result, ANY
movement with the backing of ai
religious body and the church
was pre-ordained to be an unqu
alified victory. Very few would
care to display their supreme
wickedness before the world by
opposing such a movement. Just
exactly that was responsible for
the Prohibition movement becom
ing law in the United States and
Canada.
But the war ended unci with
| it our uneasiness encbal also No
! great calamity seemed to he head
|ed our way to sweep us off the
! face of the Earth so the feeling
of piety that had possessed ib
began to grow irksome. We had
j imposed considerable restrainton
ourselves for some time and now
we were desirous of treading a
broader path and concern onrse
Ives with more worldly aifairs
Instead of being a great moral
issue in the popular mind Prohib
! ition degenerated into an attempt
by the church to impose on the
personal liberties of a large num
her of People and this could not
be tolerated. But when the people
got to this stage they found that
it was too late to rectify it. The
Volstead Act had been made an
amendment to the Conslitution
and could not be altered without
a two-thirds vote of Congress.
(continued next week)
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