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...Record Owl to criticise him favorably or otherwise for the enlightenment of the assembled multitude is another proof of the mutual good feeling which exists between the ancient rivals. Moreover, inasmuch as the Big Game issue refrains so kindly from blowing the foam of Yale's sour beer in her face, it is only just that I refrain from similar Menckvenism about what is really a most creditable number...
...liquor measured by volume. The reason for this seemingly small limit is not as fully understood as it should be and the reason for the rule is because of the attitude of the brewers themselves. The early state wide prohibition laws quite generally permitted the manufacture and sale of beer containing alcohol up to two per cent. The brewers who, in fact controlled in one way or another a great part of the saloons, were determined that they would obey no prohibition law whatever. Accordingly they followed the policy systematically year after year of trying to override the wishes...
...question as to whether one-half of one per cent is intoxicating or whether even two per cent is intoxicating, it is only a question of the adequate enforcement of any law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. Any restoration of light wines and beer would be merely a restoration of the scandals that accompanied the enforcement of prohibition laws during the last two decades when the people generously sought to extend the brewers a two per cent limit...
...than this, the Volstead Act contemplates the prohibition of all intoxicating liquors instead of a part of them. There is no merit whatever in any contention that it is wrong to get drunk on whisky and brandy but that it is all right to get drunk on wine and beer. The people by an overwhelming demonstration of their power have decreed that the business of making people dry shall no longer be tolerated in a free country no matter whether they are made drunk by beer and wine or by whisky...
...committee of labor leaders which has condemned the attitude of the governor on this question, holds sentiments on the beer and wine question which have been echoed throughout the country on the stump, in the papers, and at the polls. But no one has attempted to confute the obvious logic of the governor's veto message. "Massachusetts," says Coolidge, "can not be a party to nullification"--can not "take a chance on the Constitution," and must not take the initiative in nullifying legislation, which is the law of the land until declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court...