Show f CORNER I Vv Wants an ts Re Repeal eal of Prohibition Law Editor The Telegram In PresIdent Hoovers Hoover's inaugural address he intimated that he h proposes pro pro- poses to appoint k national investigation ga gation on commission to make a searching investigation of the whole of our federal o of jurisprudence Including the method or of enforcement ot of the eighteenth amendment an and the causes of ab abOse under it This has been my sentiment for fOt several se years and I have advocated it to several ot of my associates and friends but have received re- re little If a commission Is appointed that thatis is fall fair and fearless and J if it will go into every state In the Union and a thorough investigation reporting reporting re- re porting all the facts in regard to the the- eighteenth amendment I think that It be found a failure as it exists As an honest and honorable citizen cHi citi- cHizen zen of the United States 1 think the eighteenth amendment hasP has made more lawbreakers cheats and hypocrites than anything in the world and I am going to work to th get It repealed and replaced b by a alast last v that will give the people of this country a chance to eat and drink what they please I an ani not a drinking drink drink- log ing man but If I should want ant It a or of something something- tl that at contained I Imore more than 1 or 2 per cent alcohol I do not want to be a lawbreaker t to get it Liquor has been used as far backas back bael as history goes and they iiI prObably ably continUe to drink it until the end ot of time I do 10 not think the prohibition law Jaw could ever be enfOrced en- en f fOrced even cven if every other person in the United States was a prohibition prohibition officer Liquor is pourIng in from aU all sides into the United States and bootleggers boot boot- ledgers ar art scattered all over th the countr country Even a great number ot of our police poli c anti ana civil officers are mixed in with this illegal business The e reason for this is because there is a 1 larg profit which amounts to about 00 per cwt in the making smuggling and bootlegging g in of this stuff If Ie there were no customers for tor this liquor there would be no broken law but when two thirds of the people want and drink some kind of liquor it Is very 01 simple and easy casy for the bootlegger What we need is a law that will properly and cut down the tion with sith the bootlegger I am m going to to use m my right as a citizen and ad submit a plan to repeal th the eighteenth and substitute a law that will get us nearer prohibition than we now are and one which will be bc much easier er to to enforce Of CO Lao loSO when my i made known bootleggers will fight it hard for it will inter inter- ere with their business but it be a boon for the rest of the people or of United States HIAWATHA |