Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-20 | Page 4 | Bourbon and Hemp

J BOURBON AND HEMP IP ALLAS EGAN Governor James Rolph Jr DALLAS a pint half of good whisky whisk and a length of hempen rope rop have haYe served for or a day to take the country's mind min l off things that matter long erm eIrO enough gh to indulge in a bit of typical hysteria Americana Preachers and moralists are arc aro talking to this year old murderer across the continent in ma a language which which his his kind cannot u It has to be learned by a man when he i is a little boy at his mother mothers s knee lisping his first prayers prayers not not in the moment into eternity by a hangman to be bc jerked Out GOut of the thc nationwide b bedlam of comment of heart California governors governor's softness granting the last wish of the condemned man that he might have plenty of f good whisky whisk p before tho the march from the death cell one wom's wo wo- ms m's voice VOiCe sounds above all the others nna Anna nna Marden Harden Deyo of Evanston Ill a friend of Governor Rolph and a former Cali- Cali fo iian is quoted d in ill dispatches as saying The fact that Governor Rolph gave whisky to toa toa toa a condemned man just before execution to give hith a false sense of happiness and dull dun his hiB sepses is a good argument against the use of whisky in this ago ngo when every faculty should be balanced well and alert Mrs rs Deyo DeJo aligned with the W W. 0 C T. T U. U is perhaps is-perhaps perhaps unaware that she uttered a sentim senti- senti m mt t which in itself is a n cogent argument for repeal Whisky drinking drinking of all sorts of evil and potent high power liquor has las been a growing vice in the United States ever sige since the iniquitous idea of prohibition was hatched Though we may not take the time to about it in this light it brought about revolution No Wo shots have been fi fired fid but ballots instead of bullets in the three thirty states which have voted for repeal attest the fact After repeal what 1 After repeal a soberer so so- borer berer nation We are choosing between law- law ft controlled ful-controlled traffic in beer the milder bev- bev ei eige ge for or which the nation thirsts and the stuff that has enthroned in power lit littered the highways with death and wreckage wreck wreck- a age 1 weakened morality p driven men and worn wo wo- rn m insane and blind nourished political corruption corruption cor cor- rup on and impoverished taxpayers ers trying to m meet et the costs of futile enforcement of law