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Show I'RoriirjiTiON. The fmfir'fnry ;j rie., t.ural appro- prta ' ion bill, with t h proh i hi ion n dT 'a t ; hed, ha 't fi na I ly pa h -c-d the w nat.e, nr.-i, if ut; hrrjf ;igreef t,o Hjp, arnend-rneo, arnend-rneo, adopted, th I'nited Ktatc;, will be 'Mrv" on nnd ufv July I, K 1 U. It v.hj. f hn original i n -n tion to rnak e the !;jv,- e (l- I 1 vf JiiMiry lf b'jt,, Owin j to ''if' f -I'-, that Hi--- ".election of surh j an f ;t r i da 1 v, on Jd r ou a I y ha rn per j f h'- or ',, i, i Mi f i n ( rn a I r ve n r !"tor and for oMi' r r'-a-fn not, n'-'-cp j jary to ef) wm-t'a I'', it w;r thought, be-:t. lo wait, until tho ef,d of the pr'-ent, f-,il yar. . he vote on the prnhibi-t.foo prnhibi-t.foo fder v,a-.'. ir, to and thn hill v,n pa d v.tMiout. a roll r;t, Home time Uyn f'O'tiblr a'l;on by the qriJitH wafl .;J(d fo b" do ib'Ful, t,:it( -,,(,, if hrarrin ' e r :-.a i n t h.jl, t lie bill oub b- f ;i-'.-;rd( Vorfie of t h'. ho Vere f.ppo-e, to it ft. .' it-l te, t.o ":-' t in Hit, of the v.t t.'' l'o!lo7ifi; fh'- '',! in 1 1. r neruil-f ;( ri no. i n '(f ti t. made t.h a t the run n u- f,,.'nrt- of b'-rr in t.ho United oob: ', prohibited nftr.r f 'f crnlr t r - r ujre. 'fttO de.'jm,,,, 'r , ' i i, c wr r i ' f, u I t,f b 1 1 'in i j i .1 i i h :i ' be-' ri I ' , ' - ;i t, f f,n f'T ' '. ' b'tr'-n (he pre.'id'nt, and rj-r" Mati .r-t r,f the r,(d, Tin I and rail f.:id ad rn in i r;i ' torm nd the wnr indrn trios board. The manufacture of whisky whis-ky was prohibited last year. Tho breweries brew-eries have been fighting hard for the pirvilegc of continuing their plants in operation, but tho conclusion reached by the authorities was that beer making helped accentuate the shortage of food and fuel and added to the congestion on tho eastern railroads. Public sentiment senti-ment was also against tho brewers. The manufacturers of other beverages bever-ages and mineral waters have been warned that their business will bo greatly curtailed on account of the desire de-sire to savo food and fuel, direct labor into othor channels and otherwise aid in the winning of tho war. In the case of these manufacturers and all others engaged iu producing non-essentials, the suspension or curtailment will last only until peace returns, while thero is absolutely abso-lutely no hope for the diatUlors and brewers that we are able to cliscern. This is owing to the fact that an amendment to the constitution of tho United States prohibiting tho manufacture manu-facture and sale of ail kinds of alcoholic alco-holic beverages hns been submitted to tho states, and the certainty that three-fourths three-fourths of them will ratify it before the war is ended and the troops demobilized. demob-ilized. So, to all intents and purposes, prohibition in this country is an accomplished ac-complished fact, "and legislators who have been in the habit of turning a pretty penny whenever the liquor question ques-tion came up, will be compelled to seek a little 'sido. money" in some other quarter. We foresee all sorts of difficulties diffi-culties in enforcing nation-wide prohibition prohi-bition in all the coast states as well as in the big cities of the interior, but there will be little trouble in the granger gran-ger and mountain states once the manufacture manu-facture in this country is stopped, for it will be the next thing to an impossibility impossi-bility to transport smuggled liquor over the railroads to the interior points. It begins to look as though wc are at the threshold of a long dry spell in America unle?s there is a decided reaction. |