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...less genuine poison than those mentioned, be sold and quaffed and dignified by custom and tradition as promoting good fellowship? Why in the name of common sense, should we not drink laudanum, "blue vitriol," dilute sulphuric acid and other such beverages if we insist on having wine, beer, whiskey, brandy and gin? The acknowledged poisons would merely hasten the result by a few years...
...July 1 approaches the agitation against national prohibition is growing more and more powerful. The cities of the country are holding series of indignation meetings. On Saturday the thousand representatives of organized labor paraded in Washington as protest against the ban on beer a delight wines. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, warned the Senate that nothing could do more to bring about a repetition of conditions in Russia tan keeping beer from the laboring...
Prohibition is defended on moral grounds, and to a certain degree these arguments carry weight. Distilled liquors are most harmful to the health and morals of the population and three manufacture should be forbidden. But the bad effects of beer and light wines are very slight. These good effects consist in making a great number of people contented. On narrow dogmatic moral grounds absolute prohibition is right. On those of expediency and common sense absolute prohibition is wrong, and should not be tolerated to go into effect July 1. Were the country given a few months delay such a movement...
...Wilson has taken a wrong course in recommending that Congress remove the statutory ban on the manufacture and sale of wine and beer, which is to go into effect in accordance with law on July 1. To be sure, a technical case of some strength can be presented in support of the recommendation, in view of the fact that the war prohibition act to which the President refers was designed "for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products...
...this law, Congress in effect 'anticipated by about six months a nation-wide prohibition under the Federal amendment. The amendment cannot be repealed; it must be enforced, beginning next winter. So far as any individual is concerned, it may make little difference whether wine and beer can be bought and sold for beverage purposes in the second half of this year, so long as they must go under the ban within a few months at the latest. But something more important than that is now involved. Having determined upon its policy, the Government should adhere to it for the sake...