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Helpful Facts: 1. An oyster soaked in alcohol becomes quite rigid in eleven minutes. Senator Volstead was born Sept. 4, 1869. Alcohol, if taken in too great quantities, often produces internal disorders. II. Oysters. You say to the partner on your right: "Think of being an oyster!" This leads to a discussion of: Home Life of Oysters. Helpful Facts: 1.
Had they, as a class, been content to obey the existing laws, instead of conniving to break them; had they kept their meddling fingers out of local politics; had they realized more fully their responsibilities as manufacturers and purveyors of potentially dangerous products; had they been willing to cooperate with right-thinking men in a sane and orderly campaign for the cleaning-up and the proper regulation of the liquor traffic; had they seen that the common man's inarticulate but very definite resentment against the iniquities of the corner saloon system was tending to the legal abolition of the whole business of licensed drinking, I believe we should have had no Eighteenth Amendment saddled upon us and no Volstead act to bridle us.
In no other way can the salutary object sought to be accomplished by great reforms of this character be made satisfactory and permanent." The House of Representatives with its overwhelming "dry" majority passed the Volstead Act over the President's veto. The President clearly foresaw the inevitable reaction that would follow its passage and its enforcement throughout the country.
But whether this be so or not, it is quite plain that Congress, if it really wishes to do so, can put the country into the position where Prohibition will either draw the line above the beer-and-wine point or go out altogether. Certainly there is nothing unconstitutional in repealing the Volstead act.
Literature and the Bastinado. The Woman's Place. Owed to Volstead. The Censorship of Thought. The Uninhibited Flapper. The Wowzer in the South Seas. Reformers: A Hymn of Hate. Prohibition. A Guess at Unwritten History. In Vino Demi-Tasse. Bootleg. And the Playwright. George S. Chappell demonstrating his Outline of Censorship. Heywood Broun finds America suffering from a dearth of Folly.
So deep were his convictions about this vital matter, that it was his intention, shortly after the passage of the Volstead Act over his veto, to send a special message to Congress regarding the matter, asking for the repeal of the Volstead Act and the passage of legislation permitting the manufacture and sale of light wines, or at least a modification of the Volstead Act, changing the alcoholic content of beer.
While he was an ardent advocate of temperance, he felt that Congress in enforcing the amendment by the passage of the Volstead Act, so extreme and unreasonable in character, had gone a long way toward alienating the support of every temperance-loving citizen in the country, and that certain of its provisions had struck at the foundation of our government by its arbitrary interference with personal liberty and freedom.
They've said it. II Short Intermission to Change Meter In Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-three A. Lincoln set the darkies free; In Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen A. Volstead muzzled the canteen And freed the millions, great and small, From bondage to King Alcohol. Was it not thoughtful, good and kind For such a man of such a mind To show an interest so grand In his misguided native land?
The man who lately brought back from the Amazon Basin news of a fear-dispelling drug used there by a savage tribe, would have been carried home from the steamer on the shoulders of his compatriots if for one moment he had been believed. His drug may do all he claimed for it, but a country which boasts a Volstead in full stride cannot force itself to take him seriously.
But I say the cause, for the reason that there is one cause which transcends all others, both in underlying importance and in the permanence of its nature. That cause does not reside in any special extravagances that there may be in the Volstead act.
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