Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-12-15 | Page 4 | Customers Can Ban Bootlegger or Fatten Him

Customers Can Ban Bootlegger Or Fatten Him By BRUCE CATTON The eighteenth amendment is history his his- tory ory the thc obituary has been read the mourners have done don about all nIl the reminiscing that the situation permits Now we wo are facing ahead and most of us probably are wondering just what the wet era is likely to bring us Like practically all human devices it t will bring us just about what we make it bring Prohibition which was to have cleared up old century problems of crime crookedness and misery failed because we thought we could takeout takeout take takeout out of it more than we put in Its failure was tragic and expensive sive looking back at it we might as aswell well veil resolve right now not to make the he same failure with the Ion Hon regime A lot of factors went into the decision derision de de- to do away with prohibition Tone None None however was quite as important tant ant as the nations nation's desire to get out from Crom rom under the speakeasy and the eer They were a load too heavy to be carried any farther We have lave dropped them But when we dropped them they didn't break into little pieces They still are arc lying there waiting walling to be picked up again And if we do pick them hem up again we shall find that the expected gains of prohibition repeal are illusory That is to sa say that just as we cOL couldn't create perfect temperance by bypassing bypassing passing sassing a law we likewise shall be unable to abolish speakeasy and b beer r baron by statute The job requires widespread co operation The man in the street street- the he ordinary citizen who likes his drInk now MOW and then and is willing to o pay for it must it-must must help I If he buys what he buys from legal sources and from legal sources only he us will be giving the illegal booze traffic a blow from which it will never recover That trade like any other cant can't exist without customers Its customers cus cus- omers now no have the chance to get what they want In a legal manner It If f they do so the speakeasy dies and the he beer baron goes and hunts for a 3 job ob And right there is where the big test of the new regime will come Will the he people who protested against prohibition prohibition prohibition pro pro- support the new laws with their pocketbooks Or to put it more nore exactly will wm they stop supporting support support- ing ng the speakeasy If they do do the new regime will work If they dont don't It t will fail ail vcr very miserably