Show L. L I. I DRY TOiS WET AGAIN DECLARES U. U S. S SENATOR James E. E Martine Marline Says People Learn That So-Called So Prohibition Prohibition Prohibition Pro Pro- Lowers Civic Standards Illinois town towns and those thOM of or other It states t that are voUn voting out their saloons now aro are sure within the tho next two or three years to return to 10 the tho wet column according to James E. E Martine United States Slates senator from Now Jorse Jersey who was In Chicago yesterday with a party part of oC seventy Washington on legislators and of oC their families on tho the way to Honolulu for tor an Investigation of ot local conditions conditions conditions condi condi- there I 1 was sorry to notice that a n. number of ot Illinois towns voted tho the saloons out this thin week said Senator Martino They will regret their action In time Prohibition has s proved Itself all nil over tho the countr country after years of or experiment to be bo tho the worst kind of ot farce It Is a n failure allure and a n failure of ot hypocrisy It changes a n light day business open and above aboveboard aboveboard board Loard and subject to rC and tion Into a n sneaking midnight huckstering In dark corners that is 18 not susceptible to ob observation oh- oh or regulation It docs does not prohibit for statistics show that tho consumption Is as large as ever Tho The only change chance Is that It lowers tho the quality of ot tho the liquor sold cold and that It turns a n. l legitimate business S into an outlaw trade a n change thru which everybody connected connected connected con con- with It whether producer or consumer l suffers a n moral de degeneration Prohibition Not ot NeW When tho the good of ot this and anti other states vote out p. p t set of at they think they are arc doing dolny a a. new thing The They think that the world Is Js retting getting bettor better that folks aro are growing Into higher Ideals deals and that in a II short time the liquor will bo ho no more and drunkenness will have bavo disappeared from tho the face taco of oC the tho earthnut earth But nut these people should look up tho history history history his his- tory of ot prohibition If It they thoy did they would find that the tho dry Idea like other othor Ideas has Its ups and downs that It comes in waves wa catching the tho popular fancy The people get getan getan getan an Idea that prohibition will raise conditions Tho They get worked up over It and enthusiastic for they believe they thoy are doing Joiner a coed od thing Then tho the state goes oes dry After Alter a 0 year or two or three tho eyes of ot a. a majority have been opened to tho hollow hollo mockery of oC prohibition They s seo o that It does not prohibit that it only makes conditions condition worse As S a re result they become disgusted and and vote the tho I state to wet wot again Alvra j Wet Wei ta n ni S 87 y This has happened 1 time and again I have gone ono thru the tho G Gough h prohibition cam cm J n. als-n. the tho Washingtonian campaign campal and A dozen others y Each Ench time timo tho the people grow grew en en U thinking thoy they were backing a n real red reform But In a Q year or two or three they wore disillusioned and returned to the old normal re regulated revenue-producing revenue system C tEach Each Et ch time tho the people said Bald that the saloons were doomed and that wo we would have eternal rational prohibition But each cacti time tho the fact that human beings s aro are only human asserted Itself and tho the saloons como came back bock aa as the lesser leaser ot Of tWO evils I f i rc V f I N JM t Bp J r IM I'M S I This must Inevitably occur again In those thosa states where the tho drys aro are now winning vic Via tories I am familiar with the situation in all nil states particularly In Maine Geor Georgia la and North Carolina Everywhere I find nd It a complete com corn photo failure In G Georgia which has been pointed out as ns so BO shining an example o od ot prohibition this Is particularly so flO Any honest Georgian will admit this at once Tho The condition in Atlanta Is ludicrous Hoke Hake Smith tried to defend it but could not The Tho saloons are aro as us wide open oDen as over Tho The only difference Is la that they sell lieU cigars In the front room and beer and rum In tho the back room In the biggest and finest hotel In Atlanta I saw moro more highballs and cocktails than I have havo over overseen Been seen anywhere elco eto In my any life lIte One ODe Year In I have havo seen scent prohibition tried In our out own elt city N. 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J Ono One year ear was enough In place of or a n. re reasonable number of ot regulated openly open operated under the law and amenable to supervision hundreds of ot little lUtio opened up The rhe locker system m flourished arid and W we Dro produced a n crop of ot clubs with a n. membership of ot no more than five Ovo men each ach Doln Doing business like rats ratu in holes supervision was impossible Knockout drops and o er every kind of ot vile vUo su substitute for tor d decent nt liquor came Into common use As Aa a n. result during that ono one dry year vo wo had five times Umes tho num number r of ot arrests for tor drunkenness and disorder that wo we normally have At the tho end 1 of the twelve months everybody voted tho the town wet again In order to have not prohibition tion with Its unlimited booze but regulation with Its limited number of saloons open and susceptible of police observation and control and paying the city a license of ot 1000 each The Tho people of tho the West will find end as M a a. result of or their present experiments with prohibition pro pro- that they thoy are lowering in place Ce of ot raising their civic standard and nd that they will be forced back to the license system In order to bring things back to their present level Javel Chicago Evening l' l Pott Ibs It April ApriZ t til |