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"hirrah for hobson!" 

 Why can't we have him for President of 

 the United States? I clip the following 

 from The Union Signal of I>ec. T: 



HON. RICHMOND P. HOBSON INTRODUCES A PROHIBI- 

 TION AMENDMENT. 



On Dec. 4. 1911. Congressman Ilobson Introduced 

 in the House of Representatives the following joint 

 resolution, which was referred to the Committee 

 on Alcoholic-liquor Traffic, and ordered printed: 

 Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the 



Constitution, prohibiting the sale, manufacture 



for sale, and importation for sale of beverages 



containing alcohol. 



THiereos. exact scientific research has demon- 

 strated that alcohol is a narcotic poison, destruc- 

 tive and degenerating to the human organism, and 

 that its distribution as a beverage lays a staggering 

 economic bvirden upon the shoulders of the people," 

 lowers to an appalling degree their average stand- 

 ard of character, thereby underming the public 

 morals and the foundation of free institutions, in- 

 flicts disease and untimely death upon hundreds of 

 thousands of citizens, and blights with degeneracy 

 their children unborn, threatening the future in- 

 tegrity and the very life of the nation: Therefore 

 be it 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa- 

 tives of the United States of America in Congress 

 assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring i, 

 that the following be proposed as an amendment to 

 the Constitution, which shall be valid to all intents 

 and purposes as part of the Constitution when rati- 

 fied by the legislatures of three-fourths of the. States: 

 1. The sale, manufacture for sale, and importation 

 for sale of beverages containing alcohol, are for 

 ever prohibited in the United States and in all ter- 

 ritory under its jurisdiction. 



2. Congress shall have power to enforce, by ap- 

 propriate legislation, the provisions of this article. 



LIQUOR TRAFFIC IN PROHIBITION .'STATES. 



The following was clipped from the ( 'hi- 

 cago Advance (Congregational), and you 

 will notice they clipped it from the Herald 

 and Prfsbyter (Presbyterian); and if the 

 Baptist brotherhood and the Methodist 

 Church will now indor.se it and publish it I 

 think it may do a lot of good. It is just 

 what I have had in mind; but it is told so 

 much better than I could tell it I have cop- 

 ied it entire. 



A great deal has been made out of the fact, if fact 

 it is, as stated by the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission, that 20.(X)0.()00 gallons of liquor are shipped 

 annually into the nine prohibition States. A great 

 deal should be made of it. One is. that every gallon 

 carried into this territory was disposed of contrary 

 to law, by law-breakers and criminals and anarch- 

 ists, and that the United States furnished tax certif- 

 icates to many of these anarcliists. and gave them 

 a form of protection and respectability in their 

 criminal operations. This ought to be. and tnust 

 be. stopped. No nation claiming a Christian civil- 

 ization can afford to override or to discourage the 

 moral aspirations and efforts of its people, espe- 

 cially as expressed in the regular form of .State 

 laws, as our nation is doing in encouraging anarch- 

 ist liquor-dealers to break down the prohibition 

 laws made in nine of our States for the protection 

 of the homes and the people. 



But another thing being made out of the fact of 

 this importation of liciuor into prohibition States 

 is land a most abject and discreditable thing it is) 

 that prohibition does not prohibit, and, conse- 

 quently, should be done away with! Why does it 

 not prohibit? Because there are some criminals 

 who are breaking the law, and some criminal offi- 

 cers who are not enforcing it, although they are 

 under oath to do .so, and are paid for doing so. 



"sledge-hammer" blows for tempeka.vce: what 

 a methodist preacher s.\ys. 



A few weeks ago in the home of Mr. Wallace 

 Oridley, of Edgewood, Cal. 'a very enthusiastic bee- 

 mani. I read in your magazine a splendid temiier- 

 ance sermon for which I want to reach a fraternal 

 hand across the country and say "shake! hurrah 

 for you! do it again." Mr. ( iridley. who is also a 

 most ardent anti-saloon man. has since given me 

 several copies of the same article in leaflet form, 

 which I shall distribute, hoping and praying they 

 will help us jnake California dry. It is an awful 

 fight we are in: but such articles as I have mention- 

 ed will .strike a blow like a veriable sledae hammer, 

 God bless you! do it again. 



SLsson, Cal., Aug. 1. .Iohn F. Kell< ui;. 



Their argument, however, is that, because some 1 

 law-breakers break the law, they ought to be re- 

 warded for their opposition to the law by having i 

 the law repealed. 



But it is well to consider the proportions of this I 

 feature of the importation of 20.000,000 gallons ol 

 liquor into prohibition States. It means that the 

 people of these nine States consume less than one } 

 gallon and a quarter per capita, while the per- j 

 capita consumption of the people of the other j 

 States is 25 gallons a year. Thus even the horrible 

 conditions brought about in the prohibition States 

 by boot-leggers and blind tigers and all other dis- 

 reputable means for the anarchistic disposal of 

 liquor are only one-twentieth as bad as in the oth- 

 er .States, where the saloon is regulated and well 

 ordered, and moral and lovely, and 25 gallons of 

 liquor is consumed on an average by the people 

 every year. The cit.v of Chicago alone, with only 

 2,000,000 people, consumes 12 times as much liquor 

 as 15,000,000 in the prohibition States consume. 



If our good folks in Medina feel inclined, 

 I should like to have extra copies printed 

 for free distribution. They might open the 

 eyes of the good people in Ohio who are 

 making such haste to vote back the saloons 

 because, as they are told, "prohibition does 

 not prohibit." 



wet and dry " IN the RECLAIMED COLORADO 

 DESERT. 



Mr. Root: — I have been very much interested in 

 your temperance department, and think perhaps 

 you will be interested in the fight which is now on 

 in Imperial, between the good citizens and the 

 saloon interests. Imperial County i which is the 

 reclaimed Colorado Desert' has been dry since its 

 birth: but a "local option" amendment to our State 

 constitution, passed at the last election, takes the 

 power of prohibition from tbe counties and gives it 

 to towns: and the brewers of Los Angeles are 

 taking advantage of this to try to force their abom- 

 inable products upon Imperial Co. The full-page 

 advertisement which I inclose will show you what 

 pitiful arguments they put up in favor of their prop- 

 osition. The " Progressive League" is composed of 

 the "Pool Hall" and "Blind Pig" element of Im- 

 perial. The business men are, I think, without 

 exceiJtion. opposed to the saloon. It is too bad that 

 woman suffrage, which has just been jjassed at a 

 special election, is not yet in force: for if the women 

 of Imperial had a vote, the town and county would 

 certainly remain dry. 



El Centro, Cal.. Oct. 24, 1911. D. P. Bottroff. 



Then follows a full-page advertisement 

 gotten up by the brewers to prove that a 

 careful and well-regulated saloon is better 

 than prohibition — that is, no saloon. Now 

 if these liquor people would just point to a 

 city that is prospering under the reign of the 

 "well-regulated" saloon, it would be a 

 curiosity. 



