Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-29 | Page 4 | Liquor at the Conventions

1 LIQUOR AT THE CONVENTIONS. Ij Guarding against the possibility of either one of the old parties 1 1 taking up the side of liquor, a committee with Senator Capper, Sena- Jl tor Shcppard'and Congressman Randall in command, has sent the i: Standard-Examiner the following message, addressed "To the Citi- I Ij zens of America" : , .. ! One year of prohibition has brought more laughter to i children and more smiles to women than any other legis- I lation. u It has turned almshouses and breweries into factories, I I jails into corncribs, and brought their inmates forward into JL Hi the great industrial army. I t If has added untold billions to the nation's wealth, I HI transferred money from the saloon tills to savings banks and S I li newly erected homes. BH The Eighteenth Amendment has increased farm and f - - city values, quickencd industry and brought to the United States the greatest era of prosperity ever known. p The pro liquor element is doing its utmost to repeal the 'M Volstead Act. - 1$$ ! It would nullify the Eighteenth Amendment, which ' would mean the overthrow of national prohibition and it? attendant prosperity; ' The liquor minority proposes to attain its ends by c'ap- !! ; turing the national conventions of the political parties. , ' i' The drv majority, as demonstrated by ratification m i1!' - fortv-five states, MUST CONTROL these conventions. !r;j; wc ask you to get every state, district, and local I or- 1 i ganization, of whatever kind within your reach, to ADOL 1 V !' RESOLUTIONS substantially as follows: I "Be it resolved, that avc hereby authorize our names , to be used at each and every political convention to be held M in 1920, notifying the leaders of all parties that we will 1 support' such parties as specifically endorse, by platform j!: declaration the Eighteenth Amendment as interpreted by ' , the Volstead act, or some measure equally effective ; and nominate candidates unequivocally to its enforcement." i Although the prohibition leaders are uneasy and not a few ot j i them are apprehensive, we are of the opinion that prohibition is not J in danger and that neither party will venture to undo the legisla- j tion which has made America more nearly sober than any other nation na-tion formerly given over to strong drink.