QUESTIONS FOR VOTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 4

QUESTIONS FOR VOTERS

ATTACK ON THE "DRYB" CALL FOR ACTION. • Fifty-five question* make up a questionnaire that is being sent by the New York: Division of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment to voters throughout the country. The questions are designed to attack all the arguments of the. -proponents 'of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act. The Anti-Saloon League appears to be the centre of the attack. It is designated •si the "A $L." ... - Here are some of the questions: , "Name one Stote,\city ,-town, Hamlet, or street in the' United States that is dry as a bone? * "Name any of the leaders of tb.e A $ L ■who fought in the World War, or in any war, and cite their deeds of; bray cry. / "How many paid professional.reformers does the A $ L maintain? What are their duties? Their methods of gaining their objective? Their salaries? " Is your Congressman in their power? How did he vote on the' Eighteenth Amendment? Does he drink? Does, he vote dry because his constituents'' are dry? Can he prove that, or is it merely a shield to cover his domination by the A,s L Will he vote wet if ho knows thathis constituents'are wet? "Were there bootleggers before Prohibition? If .so, where? . „'■ ''Is it true that.money was pncsed to Congressmen and Senators to pass th* Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Aot? If so, whence did this money come?.-.;'. ',' " •••,•■, . ' "If a law is obnoxious to the people and permits- the .rich man to-have his cellar "full and the poor man unable to get even a small quantity N of the same beverage without being preyed Vipon byreformers'and their aids, in crime,! the {bootleggers, is it a wise law? •..Is it a democratic law! * " How long will 110,000,000 peopfc tamely submit to the ' intellectual black" mail '.of 189,000 people? "'-,.'•' "DID THEY FIGHT?" . " Can you name: offhand two or three leaders of the A $ L who have ever performed any civic or national work which would entitle them to make the laws of ourjand? v> , . ; Give the name, date of birth, place of birth, and.any other biographical .data you. have »c to the person who appointed' these leaders of the A $ L the First.Dictators of America... ' .. , ; s MKd Washington drink? Did Jefferson '. drink ? Did Lincoln drink ? Did •Lincoln sell liquor*? Did Grant drink? Did Lee drink? Did Theodore Roosevelt drink? Did Woodrow Wilson drink! Does President Harding drink? Are these men great men, all*of wlwmhave done great things? Or are they to be classed' as' weaklings? '■■'■' FATE OF THE ARABS. '<Name one great nation that has prospered after it has accepted Prohibition. Are the Mohammedans, a great people? .' ' ■■ .-■■■"■ . . •• i ' "How much money has the Govern ment lost to date because there it Prohibition? " Can you conscientiously say that you are keeping .'your, oath of allegiance to the United States when you sit back idly and permit legislative fanaticism, resulting in bootlegging and other co-related evils, to override the country and bring about unemployment, financial panic, unrest, and perhaps oivil .war? "What must you do' as an American citisen to uphold the Constitution <jf the United States and say« it from farther mutilation at the hands of fanatical reformers?"— New York World, 17th April, 1922.