KEGS AND BOTTLES NOW OUTLAWED THE “BONE-DRIEST” ENFORCEMENT RULING—a “signal for war on home brew”—leading papers call the latest Prohibition decision of the United States Supreme Court, quoted at the close of this article. The Court’s verdict that kegs, bottles, corks, and whatsoever enters into prohibited liquor-... continued
Moonshining During Prohibition
November 4, 2009 By
I HAVE recently returned from a visit to the mountains, where for many years I-like my father and my grandfather before me-made moonshine, Although approximately eight years have passed since I ran off my last liquor-thirty-six gallons of pure corn whisky-my still, which was my chief inheritance from my father, is even now seeing service, turning o... continued
Medicinal Whisky
November 4, 2009 By
FIVE judges of the United States Supreme Court uphold the Constitutionality of the law which limits the quantity of medicinal whisky which physicians may prescribe. This means that there is nothing to prevent Congress from substituting its judgment for the judgment of the individual physician in deciding to what extent alcohol is necessary or valua... continued
Statistics and Prohibition
November 4, 2009 By
A REPORT just issued by the Moderation League makes very broad statements about the evil effects of prohibition. It represents the “next generation” as drinking “as never before.” It cites statistics to show that drunkenness in over five hundred cities increased almost twice as fast in 1925 as it did in 1924. It declares tha... continued
Referendums on the Liquor Issue Part 2
November 4, 2009 By
A VERY bad form of referendum proposal is the one to be presented to the voters of New York State on November 2. This particular referendum proposes, in effect, to ask the Congress of the United States to permit the forty-eight separate States to construe, interpret, and enforce a provision of the National Constitution, namely, the Eighteenth Amend... continued
Referendums on the Liquor Issue Part 1
November 4, 2009 By
IT is perhaps not very logical for the country to be so wrought up over the liquor issue that it thinks of very little else. There are a number of exceedingly important issues which ought now to be under public discussion, and the liquor issue is in a sense acting as a red herring across the trail of these very important matters; but there is no do... continued
Prohibition Battle Between Wet and Drys
November 4, 2009 By
IN the battle between wets and drys there appears to be no ground for a genuine compromise. In the matter of the Volstead Act the choice is between enforcement and nullification. In the matter of the Eighteenth Amendment the choice is between its maintenance or its repeal and the return of the licensed and legalized liquor traffic. The various comp... continued
Six Varieties of Prohibition Referendums
November 2, 2009 By
MANY voters on election day will have something besides candidates to discuss. In nine States some phase of the liquor problem will go before the electors in the form of a referendum. The New York referendum is admirably discussed by Congressman Davenport in this week’s issue of The Outlook. Mr. Davenport, as our readers know, is one of the outs... continued