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1 Statement of Facts 1920

handle is hein.beal/stafact0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE ASSOCIATION AGAINST THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT INCORPORATED MUNSEY BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D. C. November 15, 1.920. This Association is working: I. TO GET THE VOLSTEAD ACT OUT OF THE LAW. II. TO PERMIT EVERY STATE (UNDER THE CONCURRENT CLAUSE) TO PASS ITS OWN ENFORCEMENT ACT. III. TO THEN REMOVE THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT FROM THE CONSTITUTION. STATEMENT OF FACTS While prohibition accomplishes much good, and merits dignified treatment and serious considera- tion, yet we believe that the present Prohibition laws are improper and dangerous. Prohibition should, we think, be dealt with locally, and not in violation of the fundamental principles of home rule under which our country has grown to greatness. The climate of Alaska requires one diet, while Louisiana demands another; and to so legislate that many citizens in every part of the country feel that what they may eat or drink is being dictated to them by citizens of other parts of the land (living under different climatic conditions) is to sow the seeds of antagonism and to start crops of dissensions and perhaps future serious trouble. We therefore ask your support in the interest of good citizenship. SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. The prohibition laws are unpopular with a great majority of the votcrs. Most of us never had a chance to express our preferences. Prohibitionists frequently nominated candidates, but they never got any important percentage of votes. The amendment was adopted largely by legislators pledged to vote as they did because in their districts prohibitionists held the balance of power. A similar balance of power in our hands will repeal it. I. We believe that when the voters now opposed to the Volstead Act are organized for action and united for a single program, they will have sufficient strength to repeal it. II. The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment is trying to supply the necessary or- ganization for this purpose. It will work for the following objects, viz.: A. To get the Volstead Act out of the law and keep it out. B. To oppose the passage of similar tyrannical laws, and to endeavor to have the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment (so long as it remains in force) left to the people of the several States under the concurrent clause. C. To work patiently, lawfully, fairly and patriotically for the repeal of the Prohibition Amendment, and in the hope that the Constitution of the United States will hereafter be preserved from mutilation by an organized fanatical minority. GENERAL RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 1. The Association is non-partisan and non-sectarian. 2. Both men and women are eligible to membership. 3. Brewers, distillers and those who have made their living from the liquor trade are ineligible to voting membership, so that the Association may be free from a fair accusation of financial interest in the subject of its work.

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