The Sentinel-News from Shelbyville, Kentucky (2024)

January 30, 1919

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The Sentinel-Newsi

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Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois

Location:

Shelbyville, Kentucky

Issue Date:

Thursday, January 30, 1919

Page:

8

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Vie invoice ebruary 1st and it is our aim to sell every piece of urniture we have on hand by that time We will not try to list the items but will quote yery attractive prices on any piece of urniture any Rug or Linoleum we have in stock I If You Want A Bargain Call and Get Our Prices! 1 11 7 Brown Building WHY THE NATION WENT DRY The Amendment I 4 'I devices the lot no one worth having as a result advocates of prohibition rest their case in the main upon the prov ed allegation that alcohol is a danger ous and habit formin drug and that its suppression means great health and zhappiness to millions of The prohibitionist view of the sonal argument is also well put by a member of the Kansas legis lature who was elected last fall as ah avowed prohibitionists In reply to a letter urging him to vote against the ratification of prohibition he said in part: would not interfere with the sonal nom the of any one if in the exer cise of those rights that person did News Service Of The London Daily Express This great newspaper has for years been the most enterprising of London newspapers: 'always accurate it has for a long time been on the on all matters relating to British and continental' politic its correspondents in Berlin 'Holland and Russia having furnished the most sensational foreign news that has ever been published'' The Herald considers itself exceedingly fortunateto be able to furnish its readers with this service reason why people eyen in wet States favored nation wide prohibition was because they greater faith the enforcement of the law by ederalofficials than by local The Michigan editor believes this feeling is well founded and for this very reason expects to see ederar'pfohibition a success The millions who want Irink and the powerful liquor selling inter ests are local influences ater all we are reminded are all powerful with the po licemen on the beat perhaps or with' the local elective city official but what do they amount to in the eyes of a re mote official at ur thermore and local popularity count for little with a ederal judge or a ederal jury ItI Incorporated 7 Phones 223 other public question with the one ex ception of slavery this journal tells those who protest at the suddenness of the consummation of has been so long and widely dis "Cust as has this he conviction in favor of prohibition has we are told the most careful con sideration and a large measure of ex perimentation the results of which been wholly The jpeople insist the Pittsburg daily not change their minds on this issue 'They have weighed every argument Yor liquor and rejected In the dry state of Washington the Seattle 'Timesis so confident that tfbe people back of nation wide prohibitionthat it declares that no fight in the 'courts wiH be of any avail to the wet 'interests the United Supreme Court declare this particular amendment unconsitutional the na tion wide sentiment in favor of reform compel Congress to iubmit another amendment that would be within whatever constitutional limits the court might A glance at the fist of dry state will show that out feide of our great cities most Ameri cans already' live in dry territory either by State prohibitory laws or by highly beneficial and Governor doubts that even those form erly opposed to prohibition would now be willing to return to the old brief experience 'with prohi bition shows a marked decrease in ar rests for crimes of the sort usually as sociated with drinking There were more arrests for drunkenness but this I is explained by the Police Department as due tothe greater vigilance of the police under prohibition Antisaloon League workers point to the city of Elmira New York where there were but TO arrests the first 3 months of prohibition aS against 381 in the pre ceding 3 months before the city went dry by local option In Tennessee the Nashville Bannner comments upon the business displayed by the members of the present legislature as contrasted with' the bibulous habit that manny solons were wont to in the old days Thi it thinks is due in part to the removal of saloons from Nashville and to the fact that prevalence of prohibi tion sentiment in thisx State has brought about the election of men to the legislature not inclined to the drink Opponents of prohibition claim that nine out of ten of our soldiers abroad are opposed to prohibition and one ad vertisem*nt of the Association op posed to National Prohibition askjj why the soldier in rance not al lowed to "express himself upon the most drastic attack against personal liberty eer suggested in the history of To Mr Edward Staats Lutheiwho writes on political affairs for the New York Morning Telegraph looks as if the 4000000 men in with a vote would form a mighty opposition to the army of long haired men and short haired wo men who have constituted the prohi bition This writer and oth er newspaper writers have interviewed a number of soldiers who object to prohibition' But the editor of the Col umbus Dispatch while to ad mit that many soldiers may be oppos ed to prohibition declares that in no small number of the letters he has seen from soldiers statement is made that the writer is convinced that prohibition is the only thing that the soldiers as a rule will vote when they get home" a they have seen so much of the evils of intemperance they will throw their influence to the side of sobriety to the extent of mak ing it impossible for any one to obtain liquors in this The Spokane Review also rejects the assumption that most of our soldiers will come back converts to the and light wine It' says: average soldier's great griev ance against Europe is that he could never get ice water there He doesnot speak kjndly of the native wines which are an acquired As to another acquired taste that tor whisky most American soldiers have not gpt it A great number of them come from dry' States They know how prohibition works They have found that it is possible for a commun ity 'to struggle along without saloons Thcyxwill not give' the besieged wets a great deal of I Similarly advocates of prohibition answer the personal liberty argument advanced by the New York World" The Louisville Post recalls that that The World says now against prohibition was said in favor of the lotteries and puBlic gam ing houses at the time that the great wave tp suppress these evil swept over the country But teries were snuffed out and The biggest news event the world has ever seen with the exception of the war is breaking right now in the Pepce Conference You who so breathlessly followed the war news particularly after the United States lieSaine a participant afe now eagerly waiting to learn what is to be the' fate of the vandals who set the world aflame A 1 'Get This News rom All Angles rom The Pens Of These Master Writers Robert Owen Senator from Oklahoma Guglielmo erraro famous Italian Historian Albert Thomas noted rench Socialist Justin McGrath editor San rancisco Examiner James Montague noted political writer Naboth Hedin Paris correspondent Brooklyn Eagle Jay Jerome Williams White House correspondent Robert Welles Ritchie noted special writer The above writers comprise one of the greatest aggregations of talent ever before gotten together and no other Kentucky newspaper will have their In addition all of the news of the world will be reported through th Associated Press to which The Herald is a subscriber and last but net least the Louisville Herald has arranged to have the exclusive not interfere with the rights of others But when I know of the pernicious in fluence of the brewers and distillers in the politics of this country of their being the headquarters and gathering places for all those opposed to good government of the class of candidates they backed for office when I vote against that sort of thing' I consider that I am interfering with their personal rights but that I am protecting the rights of the other fel 1 'V Prohibition insistk the Pittsbur Ga zette Tirhes will be effectively en forced because if has thcbacking of public sentiment And the editor of the Adrian Telegram in the prohibi tion State of Michigan thinks that one local option legislation The new Neiv York Evening Post points out that in the State legislatures particu larly in Illinois the down State prohi bition outvote the members from beer and wine drinking city constituencies The Toledo Blade would inform the distilling interests that they are not fighting merely and cranks and but phenomenon as re sistless as remorseless as the rise of tides in the John death declares the Minneapolis Tri bune was decreed the wrongs he has committed against The Raleigh News and Observer a strong advocate of prohibition in a prohibi tion State that prohibition is a proposition does not payl If has no virtues Ylt has many vices and it en tails a terrible cost The sophistries that have hedged it around for genera tions have away and on any merits that it tries to claim it is de feated at every turn' is going down because it has no useful function in society but is a'burden of the most difficult sort to During the war says the Columbia State in South Carolina people Saw that good order in this country was in great measure to restrictions about the whifky traffic and onp would be silly to deny that the train ing camps and cantonments have been the better by reason of the absence of Every month the war last ed the anti liquor forces grew strong er declares the New Orleans Times Picayune in a wet State whose legis lature voted for nation wide prohibi tion the prohibition movement gained such an impetus and wet forces were so badly divided and 'demoralized that they could not check this strong wave sweeping over the Texas whose legislature ratified na tion wide prohibition amendment nearly a year ago enacted a prohibi tory law which was held invalid by its highest court This gave Texas towns as the Houston Chronicle notes an un usual experience They had their brief experience without saloons then they had a chance to try them agaiin The result was according to The Chronicle that every local option election the State wide law was passed has shown a majority against th'c saloon2 And if there should be another State 0 After one year from the ratification of this article the manu facture sale or transportation of in toxicating liquors within the importa tion thereof into or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to jhe jurisdiction thereof for beverage 'purposes is here by prohibited 2 The Congress and the several States shall' have concurrent power to enforce this article by appro priate legislation 3 This article shall be in operative unless it shall hac been ratified as an amendment to the Con stitution by the legislatures of the several States as provided by the Constitution within seven years from date of the submission hereof to the States by the The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The irftemperate with which our State legislatures hast ened to ratify the prohibition amend ment to the ederal Constitution was a profound mystery to the editors of some of our great metropolitan News papers To the New York Tribune it was "as if a sailing ship on a windless ocean were sweeping ahead propelled by some invisible This paper knows of no popular demand for na tion wide prohibition The New York Times gives it up seems to be the fashion just as drinking used to and politicans tumble over one another in their ferocity to be re for no other reason than that they to be on the winning side Our foreign descended populations in New York and other cities are sadly perplexed at the prospect of this sud den snatching away of their favorite and time hallowed beverages Io the New Y'orker Staats Zcitung a German sheet the progress of prohibition 1 seems to be work of political cliques which in contempt of the willf the people would make the will of asmall minority appear as that of the great majority But the Pittsbur Gazette Times' re plies to these mystified spectators that it is deliberate of the people of the United States the Go to the Peace Conference With The Louisville Herald liquor traffic should be No wicle vote" this'year "the antiprohi bition side will be overwneimeu uy an avalanche of pro The Chron icle adds: saloons were voted out because they were lawdess They were thj? agents of their own destruction In the face of repeated warnings and a constantly rising tide of popular senti ment they kept on their lawless course 'till they committed suicide They' have gone into a grave from which there will bb no1 This opinion is confirmed by quota tions made a few years ago from or gans of the wine iind brewing inter ests to the effect that the failure of brewers and wine producers to dis criminate against the vicious open sa loon "was endangering the existence of the whole liquor trade The New York Sun emphatically agrees that evil effect of the corner gin the peace and prosperity of the American home' has been the cause of the sweep of sentiment 'against liq rom time to time there have corrtej from new prohibition States declara tions that prohibition was a good busi ness proposition In Alaska prohibi tion according to Secretary re cent report been productive of OWEN WILL BE CLOSED TODAY AND RIDAY INVOICING OPEN SATURDAY 1 A Read The Louisville Herald Daily And you will always have all the news and have it first It contains the best 'editorials and many other news features for all members of the family Give your local agenLyour order if therfe is none in your town send in the coupon below with your subscription Sample copy sent on request 7 THE LOUISVILLE HERALD i Kentucky Greatest Newspaper By Mail MAIL DAILY HERALD TO NAME AND ADDRESS lt ii Postal Zones Including AH I GWEN OR TERM SHOWN i of Kentucky and Southern Indiana 1 Ir NAIE $500 $260 Address J' No $1:40 50c Enclosed ind I State Term Here I Mail following coupon with A 1 remittance at once be Ol i year a mm 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