Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1915 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Prohibition, Then What? By James C. Kelly Prohibition is offered as a final and satisfactory solution of the liquor problem. Granted that this be true, it would naturally follow that the state or community which adopts prohibition would rid itself forever of the troublesome “wet” and “dry” agitation and summarily abolish the consumption of alcholic beverages. Unfortunately for prohibition and the political units which have adopted it, however, it has failed to fulfill its glowing promises. Always, after prohibition is adopted, there is still the task of making it perform according to schedule. This in itself has invariably been found to create more disturbance than the original prohibition agitation and with equal regularity it has failed to diminish the consumption of strong drink. Maine and Kansas have had prohibition for many years. In the former state there is no contradiction of the assertion that liquor is sold openly. Politically, Maine is in a constant turmoil because of the “wet” and “dry” agitation which, however, assumes the form of a “law enforcement” and a “no-law enforcement” question. Think of it! A state in which the sale of liquor has been illegal for half a century, still divided, not on the question of repealing prohibition, but on whether or not to ignore it. That’s how prohibition settles the liquor question. Kansas, long a “dry” state, faces a different problem. Kansas, where prohibition is always politically expedient, faces the difficult task of setting a brilliant prohibition example for the nation, in spite of the official figures showing its liquor bill averages well with the license states. Recently it was shown by the records that a certain Kansas city has a record fordrunkenness which would make the ordinary license town look like a chautauqua. An officer of this “dry” community soon explained the enigma, however. In Kansas, he said, a man is arrested when his breath smells of intoxicants, but in license territory there must be visible as well as olfactory evidence. So it seems that in Kansas a policeman, in addition to other qualifications, must be a good breath smeller. Absurd as this may seem, it is the extreme to which prohibition of the use of liquors would lead us. The experience of these two states proves conclusively that prohibition is no solution of the liquor problem. It is a sort of public “swearing off” followed by secret and hypocritical breaking of the pledge.- 'Adv.