Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-09-29 | Page 7 | Common Sense and Prohibition

I Common mon S Sense nse and Prohibition 1 I By DR FRANK CRANE Senator Glass stopped the argument nt recently between be- be tween Mr I McAdoo and r. r r. r Ritchie as theY were we discussing discussing dis- dis cussing prohibition by the remark Anyone Any ne is a fool fool who thinks that the eighteenth nt will be repealed in the next years ears What has prohibition got to do with the presidential election anyway Let those Democrats who ant to agitate for or Ii a. modification of the act do it by voting for wet congressmen Congress nat t the must vote on any such modification Criticism has often been passed upon the two great parties because they have not made the wet and dry campaign an issue It has no business being be be- ing an issue We Ve are a dry country supposedly because because be- be cause congress has voted it and the legislatures of the states have it We Ve continue to be a quasi dry country because there thero are more dry congressmen than wet It was wasa a clever move when the quit having a a. national party and concentrated thell efforts upon I electing dry congressmen It will be a mistake when hen whenever ever they quit that method i Criticism has been made of the league because it dIctates who shall be the various officers of the government This dictation however simply means that it insists that the m men n who enforce the laws must be in favor of these laws and must be honest and reliable There is nothing un or dangerous in a companY or an organization that Is hi formed for securing good officials and trustworthy This is a a free afree reo country Elect enough wet wet congressmen congressmen con con- gressmen and get get- enough nough wet you d can an repeal th the Vols Y or the d n l amend amend- any any time Ume yo nt to This i a t ta a republic ad n t a dem demp racy The will of at the is d the kind of people th they y elect to office to make theft Just a kind of people eople nd wets select s in Instead or of drys and you can change things soon Every Every effort effort to t he prohibition n amend amendment ent by some som other method than tha i thIs Is contrary to our of government N No m matter itter how much individual l may fret and fume the prohibition amendment Is goi ito st on the statute b books as long as the duly se selected lawmakers choose it to stay If you want that amen amen- n- n ment taken off the statute books elect a different different- kind of lawmakers That is the gist of the whole matter I Copyright 1027 McClure Newspaper SyndIcate Inc I