OUR ENEMIES THEMSELVES, BEING JUDGES.

White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 344, 18 February 1924, Page 9

OUR ENEMIES THEMSELVES, BEING JUDGES.

Mr O’Donnell is frankly and pronouncedly wet in his personal sentiment*. and desires. Here is what he says —“The great Mid-West is joining hands with the Far West and the South in the movement to make America bone-dry. The Eighteenth Amendment is an accepted fact everywhere west of the Alleghany Mountains, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Arkansas. Tennessee, and other States that I visited in the last months are dry the sen timeni is dry, and there is n growing respect for the Volstead Act. None of these States is bone-dry as yet, hut they are on their way. I was loath to admit it even to myself, hut there is abundance of evidence that a great ‘dry wave’ is rolling eastward, slowly but surely grinding down opposition to Pro. hibitlon. And riding the crest of the waves are the clean, substantial citizens of the nation—the John Smiths and the Tom Browns —and always their wives and sisters and mothers are riding at their sides. Some day we wets are going to awaken to find that an ovei-whelming majority of the people of the United States are weary of the l>ootloggers and dry law violators. Some day. and that day is not fai distant, the people are going to rid the country of the bootlegger and rum runner just as the vigilantes of the ’fifties rid Pa llfornia mining camps of undesirable gamblers, gunmen, and prostitutes.”