T personally do not sce that the Waxhington investigation has been productive of any good whatever.
has done nothing constructive, and it is not likely that even a report on the findings will be issued, But what it has done is further to agitate the country and worry members of Congress who, from now on, will have to face constituents in every state in the Union. It has merely been a tempest in a teapot.
All the same, as time goes on this matter of prohibition will tuke more and more important a bearing American. life. It has its tentacles spread so widely through the strata of national life that the Government must not hoodwink itself by thinking that the tizhtening of legislation will bring a more contented adherence to the Jaw on the part of the people. There is no country in the world wh{eh, firstly, would have passed a law like the Volstead Act, nor, secondly, that would have taken such loose chanees of getting the law observed, nor, thirdly, that after the law was passed would allow such a highly pens investigation to be held in its capital and know that nothing Whatever constructive was achieved, This sort of thing is making the United States more and more the laughing: stock of the nations, But the end.is not yet.
Tam firmly of the opinion that as this year progresses we shall witness increased national opposition to prohibition as it is at pre sent mishandled. Towards the ud of, the year T am convinced, not that such will be the carey but be-only because astrologers. prophes:
cause no nation can stay for long near the rebelling point without openly rebelling, that we shall see national upheaval on a serious scale because the United States is trying to enforce by legal means inefficiently directed a condition of "morality" against which human nature almost naturally rebels,
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