| Show 0 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart washington the sudden action of f congress in submitting the bitten billon repeal reso long rocky lution to t the it a road to repeal states liaa has brought enough of a lion right now to justify the assertion that prohibition repeal still lifts hns a long way to travel and it louks looks like a rocky road to sonic some of the tin unbiased biased observers whether you tire ire wet or whether you are dry this prohibition repeal battle has an all immensely practical side and it Is that practical side aide which yet must be met it looks like repeal has a big edge its supporters and the he bulk of those who voted for or its passage in tile the house and in the senate belleve believe there are 30 states lil cli given the opportunity for a Milte statewide wIde express expression lon will vote to take the experiment out of the constitution ution tion in other words they still have the enthusiasm that caused aused repeal or submission proposals to be vat put into the party platforms in the midsummer heat nt at chicago Clil cago in 1032 the llie group that forced the repeal I 1 proposal through congress embraced ninny many of the same leaders ns as were in evidence in the democratic art am republican party conventions re ively now however they have n different Terent dlf question to handle it Is the sober judgment of the populace po who tire are not carried away by the mol mob psychology of a n party convert conen don because they are now talking it over in tile the quiet of their homes and wt with t it choir friends to get down to cases the circumstance is simply this a very great reat flum number her of people are going to ask themselves if they have not already done so whether there can be a means worked out to prevent present return of the salo saloon on the most ardent wets tiny dire delre to have the saloon again they so declared ared in the tie debate on the repe rebeil al resolution but it appears to sonic some of the ob servers here that wishing will not make it so to state the thing another way the repeal resolution could be talked about in nit an academic way a the need for elimination of the speakeasies speake asies for taking the power of money out of the hands of criminals for accomplishing more respect for law and order these needs were phily dul stressed and there Is no doubt is as to the value of tile the argument rut but when the repeal had passed congress and the question had been put up to the states for by conventions conent lons it appears that many persons through out the country suddenly came to the realization that the st states a t es were left with the job of regulating the sale of the liquor congress declined to put tiny an provision in the repeal resolution that prohibited the return of the saloon it was content to include a pro vision which brings federal author ity iti into use to keep the wet states from shipping liquor into dry dr states lut that was its as far as it would go hence the problem of regulating the stale sale Is strictly up to the states themselves offhand it Is made to appear that in a number of states there will hill be enough dry sentiment to tie he up with those who dont don t want the saloon to force adopt adoption lon of state regulations against the pub lie lic barroom in others of course that condition will not exist and there will be the old time saloon on every corner of the street intersect Inter sec tans in the third thard class of states t ere Is no doubt n at t all what will happen prohibition will continue in them I 1 hive ha ve hea heard rd it said here by some of the recognized wets that the women constitute tile the problem of the forces who are bent on getting rid of prohibition it will be interesting to note their behag tor lor in fit this first test of a rational national problem adapted locally hat tile the strategy of the drys will be Is not yet iet quite clear the assumption Is concentrate they are going to on dry states concentrate their fight I 1 mean tiie in by that tile the drys are going to pick their spots because they recognize it takes only thirteen states no more no less to block repeal if they go to bat in perhaps not noi more than twenty states that have long prohibition records or where the dry sentiment long tins has been prominent they can call give the wets one of the prettiest fights of nod ern politics the I 1 he wets recognize the size cle of their job it Is agreed by all observers here that tile the wets are organized now better than they the have ever eer been they hive have men and women with brains and a very great deal of money that money will be spent for speakers for liter for gener gemeril al camp campaign nigh pur poses the drys or on the other hand are arc not equipped with money to any particular extent nor is it believed that they hive hare leadership of 0 f t the e type ap pp of the lite late wayne wane B W wheeler li eel e r alio to by sheer force of hla his person ailcy and political acumen drove the eighteenth amendment through congress fourteen years ago dut cut while admitting these things it still Is to be remembered the strength of 0 the drys in this battle like all they have fought UPS iles in the moral arguments they can advance senator IVI william Ilam B N borah of idaho it personal ns as well us as a po dry told me lie he thought the weight of the moral argument would be just as important in this campaign on the liquor issue as it ever has been he suggested that it might be slow in gaining momentum but he Is convinced it will pick pich up speed ns as ilia alie campaign proceeds such wet leaders ns as aatu of Connect connecticut and tydings of maryland however h 0 w e v e r battle Is on maintain t there it e re in states has beegi anakak nn awakened public sentiment their argument oft repented repeated Is that hundreds of thousands of right people once pro have reasoned the tho thing through and have reached tile the con clunion that national prohibition lias has been it a failure they tire are will ing therefore to vote to do away with tile policy which they hoped fondly would eliminate the curse of the liquor traffic they found so senator bingham says that they were misguided so as the alie state legislatures pass legislation providing for conven aloas in the several states the battle Is on it will bo be on too in III some of the alie state legislatures where attempts wll vill be made to defeat even a call for a state convention if that fight is successful of course it Is almost ns as good for the drys as though tile state refused to ratify in convention it takes one potential sti supporter from the list of forty eight of wille I 1 thirty six must lust ratify here Is the language of the alie resolution upon which the states will net act resolved by the senate nod and house of representatives es of th the e united states of america in congress assembled two thirds of en each 11 jhc thc house concurring therein that at the following article Is hereby proposed ns as an amendment to tile the con ution of the united states alch shall be ba valid to all intents anten and purposes pui poses when ratified by con mentions ent vent lons ions in three fourths of the several states section I 1 the eighteenth amendment to the constitution Is hereby rep repeated elied section 2 the transportation or importation into any state territory or possession of the united states tor for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors in violation of the laws bere hereof berecia Is hereby prohibited Sect section lon 3 this article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been rati lattner fled its as an all amendment to the constitution by conventions lu in the several states as provided in the constitution within seven years from the date of the suba submission iss ion hereof to the states by the congress and tor for the further purpose of a record it may be said that the proposal to ratify by conventions in the several states la Is tile the first time ii it has ever happened that congress hns has specified the uso use of conventions the constitution of course permits that method it was contemplated by the framers of the resolution in the senitte senate that no side issues should he be allowed to muss up a determination of the question if the undercurrent of talk be correct that senator harrison of bussis mississippi sis sippi thought demand for lie he could cut down the vast demand for inflation of the currency by staging singing the series of hearings before ills his committee on finance it must be admitted lie he has made some headway to be sure there tire are senators and representatives continuing their free advice to the world about the need of additional dit ional millions even een billions of paper bills without any gold backing but they are not now believed to possess the strength in congress they once had bild senator Is aiming at gathering in all iliades of opinion into one record a course that may or may not be productive of anything worth while but it Is established that the deeper purpose of the hearings was to keep many of the quiet how flow much easier it will be then to draft legislation I 1 president roosevelt although settled in the white house has hag not hild had time yet to settle into his job ns as chief executive of the nation but it cannot be said that he lias has not already had a taste of the criticism that goes will that high office 1 I do 10 not know how much of tt it has readied reached tits desk but washington gets reactions from all parts of the country that the honeymoon which litch mr sald said la in tits campaign that he desired Is nearly tt if not completely over ca 1921 western Nev Now paper union |
