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1 How about Us 1919

handle is hein.beal/hobotu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial from THE STARS AND STRIPES The Official Newspaper of The American Exfeditionary Forces in France JANUARY 17, 1919 HOW ABOUT US? The A. E. F. has no collective concern with prohibition any more than it has with freight rebates, the market price of sheet steel, or the ad valorem duty on kelp imports into Patagonia. But when a news dispatch states that one explanation of the prohibition advo- cates' zeal since the A.E.F. came to France is their desire to put over pro- hibition before the A.E.F. gets home again, then the A.E.F. has the right to make a collective protest. For if the prohibitionists can get away with it, why cannot everybody else? The A.E.F. represents a very fat share of the entire electorate of the United States-the electorate that picks govern- ors, senators and presidential electors; that instructs its representatives how it wants them to vote on minimum wage and child labor laws; that helps decide whether the home town shall be wet, dry, bone dry, absolutely dry, or, Stranger, you simply can't get a drop in the whole place. And, in the name of common honesty, is it quite fair for prohibitionists or anybody else to at- tempt to secure a popular vote on a decision of nation-wide import when the folks who have been fighting for that same nation are calmly, blandly, deliberately left out? As we earlier remarked, the A.E.F. has no collective concern with prohibi- tion. But it at least ought to have the chance to express its will-it ought at least to be present; if only as a guard of honor, when the water wagon begins its solemn triumphal procession along the Lincoln highway. Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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